Page 48 - 1918 February - To Dragma

TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 141

Dagger, the dramatic honor society, and the English Club each gave
a series of four one-act plays and the proceeds were turned over to
National Service. So too, the money from the very clever junior
farce and curtain raiser which were given i n November. Most
things at the University of California have gone on as usual, only
on a much simplified scale. We had our big football game with
Washington on November 3rd, and what was most remarkable, we
won—a fact of which we are duly proud.

There hasn't been as much entertaining as usual. Most of the
houses gave up their formals, and we had only two small dances,
both of them for the freshmen. The Kappa Sigmas gave a very
clever war party the other night. As we went in, we all had to
register as to our name, height, age, weight, and i f we claimed exemp-
tion. Of course, everyone gave the most foolish answers possible.
Then, i n the middle of the party, there was a regular draft dance.
A girl's number and a man's number were drawn at the same time,
the numbers being i n capsules just as the official draft. The man and
the girl had to appear before the exemption board; all claims were
denied and they had to dance. They were ordered to report immedi-
ately to Fort Scud, Camp Creep, or Camp Crawl, which were the
various recruiting camps around the living-room. The bugle sounded
and we all started off. The whole idea was well carried out f o r
there were funny signs all over the house. The kitchen was "Hoover's
H u t " ; the balcony outside, "the dug-out." On the way upstairs was
a sign "To the Cantonment." The bathroom was labeled "Submarine
Zone"—most appropriate for a fraternity house. The girl's dressing-
room was "No Man's Land" and "Dressing Station" and inside was
the "Powder Magazine." So you see we really have had f u n in spite
of the war.

The girls have taken part in lots of the entertaining for the men
of the service. During the second U . S. T . C. at the Presidio of San
Franciso, there was a party given every Saturday night at one of the
homes in the city, and our girls were invited to become members of
the "Flying Squadron" which was composed of the girls who went
regularly to help give these men a good time. There is a school for
the "Flying Cadet" in Berkeley, and we have had about thirty of
them over twice just to dance for a little while, f o r they haven't much
time off.

Three of the Alpha O's, Catharine Cox, Esther Caldwell, and
Marion Black, have been taking part every Thursday night for several
weeks in some one-act plays, which have been given for the soldiers
and sailors at the various camps and forts around the bay. These