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20 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

CONVENTIONALITIES

BA T H I N G SUITS and business sessions, moon light on the lake and
the eternal clatter of typewriters, the Founders and fireworks,
(not that they have anything especially in common), soft southern
voices and red roses, three o'clock in the morning and giggles,
committee meetings and receiving lines—such a jumble of memo-
ries i n our heads when we look back on convention week! A n d
then, the more we let our minds dwell on that happy week, the
more crystallized our impressions become, until each moment,
almost, stands out cameo-clear, from the time the first bus drove
up to the I n n till the last one left.

I t was a happy week, and a very busy one. Meeting old
friends and making new ones is always a happy affair, and as f o r
busy—there was so much to do: everybody to get acquainted with,
fraternity business to discuss and matters to decide in meetings,
and so much f u n to have a part i n ! Stunts to see, auto trips to
take, track meets to run in, boat rides, picnics, receptions, ban-
quets, not to mention rituals and pageants.

But all our time was not spent in f u n . The fraternity may
feel very proud of the accomplishments of the 1925 Grand Coun-
cil meetings. The two most important pieces of legislation enacted
were those creating the new office of Registrar, which will lighten
the burdens of the Grand Secretary and make f o r a more eco-
nomical and efficient conduct of fraternity business, and establish-
ing a new scholarship, three hundred dollars annually to be given
by the fraternity to some woman not a member of Alpha Omicron
Pi, f o r graduate study. A f u l l discussion of the new office and its
duties will appear at some future time, and every year we will hear
of the new scholarship along with the first one established.

Joanna Colcord again addressed the fraternity ana" its friends
at open meeting, and the full text of her address is reprinted here.
Other speakers at this meeting were Rochelle Rodd Gachet, who,
as Executive Secretary f o r the New Y o r k Panhellenic House
Association was fully qualified to speak on her subject, "The Pan-
hellenic House Movement," and M r . George Banta, Senior.

As you can see, convention week was so full of a number o f
things that it was not half long enough. Everybody who was there
wants to, and plans to, continue the friendships and associations
made at future meetings.