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was over a "confirmed booster" sang California's praises, as usual. Her
vacation this year was to be spent with her sister in Montana, and later
word says that she carried out that plan.

     Mary Young's letter was written in the midst of finals at the Univer-
sity of Chicago where she has been pursuing a Master's degree this last
year. She sees Mary Hartman (Mary has another name, acquired by the
Lohengrin route and I ' m sorry not to know i t ) , once in while and Roma
Lindsey Saunders once in a longer while, f o r "Rome" lives on the north
side—almost another planet i f one is a dweller on the south side in Chicago,
it seems.

     Frances McNutt sent a description of her wedding-to-be, and it
sounded to me just as the plans f o r a garden wedding should sound! " M y
new address will be 604 Main Street, M i l ford, Ohio, and my name will be
Mrs. J. E. Jackson," she added.

      Ruth Cox Segar and her husband "flivvered" to New York City and
visited Marjory Manton on their way to a boys' camp in Canada. Marjory
and Tom Manton, Miami alums both, came from New York f o r com-
mencement and visited the Dennisons.

      Margaret Westfall is to be in Warren, Ohio, this year as Girls' Work
Secretary of the Y. W . C. A .

      Katherine Rice expects to teach in Cleveland, where there are already
a number of Omegas.

      Cleon Johnson will study at the University of Chicago—an M . A . in
psychology being the star to which she is hitching her wagon.

      Clarissa Scott plans to study at the Prince School in Boston this win-

ter.
      Grace Willis Smith is again in Indianapolis where she will teach while

"Smitty" does some special hospital work in Pediatrics in Louisville, Ken-
tucky.

      Rumor says that Jane Sickels and Etta Fox are soon to change their
nanus, and that Elizabeth Andrews and Betty Murray are already called
"Mrs." Please, oh please, you who are brides and you who are to be, i f
you would like to see your fine new names in print send me the news and
I ' l l try to pass it on correctly—"me" being Helen Josephine Scott, of
address indefinite, but always reached at Shandon, Ohio.

      Irene W i l t of the active chapter was camp dietitian f o r the summer
home of the Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Y. W . C. A . on Winona Lake. During
August Clarissa Scott was director of the camp, and Martha Jacques went
up to see the combination at work.

                                                          MARRIAGES

      Helen Ballinger '23 to Joseph Raymond Gump, Ex, at Denver, Col-
orado on June 9, 1925.

      Frances McNutt ex'23 to J. E. Jackson on June 13, at Williamsburg,

Ohio.

                                                              BIRTHS

      May 1—A son to M r . and Mrs. Russell Stephens ("Sid" Lehrer '19),
of Abilene, Texas.

      June 19—A son, H a r r y Van der Veer Hilker I I , to M r . and Mrs.
H . V. Hilker (Leafy Jane Corrington T4).

      I am sorry not to include the given name of our Liddy's son, but the
cunning announcement is in Ohio and the writer of these notes is cooling
off in Colorado where the columbines grow.

                                           OMICRON PI
      Betty Gratton Youngjohn has been attending summer school in Ann
Arbor. I know she hasn't been very lonesome, because letters bring news
of bridge parties and afternoon teas.
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