Page 58 - 1925 September - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 47

O N E NIGHT this summer, two-thirds, to speak mathematically, of the
program at a performance in the Birmingham Little Theatre was
of Alpha O inspiration. Two of the three one-act plays which made up
the entertainment were written by our girls. Lorena Morton, Tau Delta,
and Felicia Metcalf, Omicron, are the future Zoe Atkins. Their plays
received honorable mention in a contest held this spring under the
auspices of the Birmingham Little Theatre Association.

A N INTERESTING outgrowth, or rather expansion, of the city Panhellenic
idea is the State Panhellenic Association of Indiana. The movement is
traced in the following article:

jn FEBRUARY, 1923, a group of Greek Letter women from five Indiana
1 towns, Lafayette, Huntington, Muncie, Delphi and Shelbyville, met with
the Indianapolis Panhellenic for the purpose of showing their interest in
the idea of a State Panhellenic Association and of taking steps toward its
organization.

During the following year, a constitution was adopted and a definite
program of work was agreed upon. The result of this endeavor was that
a number of city Panhellenics throughout Indiana sought membership in
the Association and several city associations were formed in order to become
members of the State Association.

At the present time, the Indiana State Panhellenic Association has a
membership of nearly seven hundred persons from the cities of Lafayette,
Delphi, Huntington. Shelbyville, Lebanon, Roachdale, Evansville, Bedford
and Indianapolis.

The purpose of the association is to form a connecting link between the
City and the National Panhellenic, to promote the organization of City
Panhellenics throughout Indiana, to assist in any way possible the Indiana
College Panhellenics and college fraternities without infringing upon the
rights of the National Panhellenic Congress, and to promote the higher
ideals of fraternities among college women.

Membership in the association is open to any Greek letter women in the
State of Indiana, whose fraternity is a member of the National Panhellenic
Congress and to any City Panhellenic in the state which includes in its
membership only national fraternity women.

The administration of the affairs of the association is vested in an
Executive Council, composed of a representative from each City Panhel-
lenic belonging to the State association. The officers of the association
are elected by the Executive Council.

The Indiana Panhellenic Association grew out of a need for more
definite knowledge, closer associations and comparison of ideas among city
groups in Indiana. Its growth has justified its existence. It is living up
to its high ideals and purposes. It is enabling city groups to realize their
own possibilities, valuation and capacity and to appraise highly the work
which as college women and fraternity women they are able to do.

|~~\ OESN'T T H E attractive Mother Knickerbocker poster in this issue make
you feel generous and kindly toward the Panhellenic House Corpora-

tion? What interests us is that it is the work of an Alpha O, Olive Cutter
Towle, of Sigma, who now lives in New York.