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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 105

purpose and soulful outlook upon life, so I cannot tell you. I came
away thoughtful. Do not for a moment think Omicron is overly
serious, for the girls are not. They heard me telling on them, f o r
they very frankly wrote to me with an exciting undercurrent, "We
have never seen a Grand President, and we are so anxious to see
one." They sat on the edges of chairs and looked at me. How like
a model Grand President I tried to be without disappointing them 1
We had an Alpha O tea and a Halloween party at the McCargo's, old
friends of Omicron's. Later in the evening, I met the newly installed
alumnae chapter with the actives. When, at the request of the dean,
Miss Carpenter, I was asked to say a few words to the women stu-
dents at Fern Chapel, I told a story to the delight of at least one per-
son, little Billy Bickley. My visits were often at the fraternity room,
one of them being on the occasion of a tea; and I met many rushees,
so that Omicron and I became well acquainted and I trust they w i l l
always remember the first Grand President they met.

A t Chattanooga, Roberta and Harriet Williams of Omicron and
Joe Pratt of Alpha were at the station where I waited between trains.
I t was pleasant to meet them, as I knew them through correspondence.

N u Omicron is the youngest of our family, but not by any means
the least in importance. Mary D. Houston is an Omicron disciple,
can I say more? She knew the spirit of her chapter and found the
girls who would keep the flame burning. The fraternity is blessed.
Nu Omicron had moved into a fraternity room, and I arrived in time
for the house-warming. I t was a tea—I might call it an "alphabet
tea," for the room being small, the women students were invited ac-
cording to the alphabet. It was one of the friendliest teas I ever
attended. I stayed at Mary D. Houston's home where the chapter
came to visit me. Sunday morning found me with them at Vander-
bilt's girls' class and in church. On Monday, there was a dinner in
town, followed by a reception given by the Kappa Alpha Thetas in
their little house. Kappa Alpha Theta knows how we appreciate her
interest in Nu Omicron.

Theta at De Pauw was my next stop. Their house is large and
roomy, which stands for hominess; add to this nearly every girl
knitting and we look about for tea and a cat. I did not see the cat,
but we did have a tea, to which some of the alumnae came. Dean
Alvord gladly accepted the girls' thoughtful invitation to dinner.
There is a dean who knows all her women students. I envied the
way the names slipped from her tongue. While the girls of the
chapters earlv visited were known by me name by name, by the time
I had reached Theta, I wished every one a "Mar}*." When Theta