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long talks in our newly furnished living-room—time to talk of you
and guess what you are doing, time to send you many thought mes-
sages. I t would be nice to talk to you instead and tell you all these
things, but until we can, our greetings, especially to our newest sisters
in Tennessee.

FRANCES CARTER, Chapter Editor.

UPSILON—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Upsilon has just finished a very busy quarter. We have organized
an Alpha Omicron Pi Red Cross Auxiliary and every Saturday
afternoon we meet to knit or sew for the Red Cross. We have also
offered our services to pick over spaghnum, a moss which is dried
and used instead of cotton in surgical dressings. So at chapter meet-
ing each girl is given a little pile of spaghnum to sort, and we find
that much can be accomplished without detracting any from the dis-
cussions of chapter business. Upsilon has also invested fifty dollars
in a Liberty Bond, and we are adhering strictly to all Hoover's rules
and trying in every way to be patriotic citizens.

Social affairs are very simple this year at Washington. The War
seems to have made us all grow up over night. We are more serious
and earnest, and much more interested i n war work. However, the
social affairs we have had, though simple, have been thoroughly en-
joyed.

On November 10th we gave a mothers' tea, and just here I want
to say a word about our Mothers' Club. They are just the best
mothers ever. They meet twice a month, and this year they are
making quilts for the house.

On November 17th we entertaind with a tea in honor of Mildred
Loring, '12, who is an instructor in the Psychology Department and
is acting as our house chaperon. I t was a lovely tea with pink-shaded
candles, flowers, music, and all the trimmings that go to make a tea
lovely.

On November 23rd we gave a 10:30 dance for our pledges. We
have eight of them, splendid, wide-awake girls.

We decided to forego our usual Founders' Day banquet, because
of the war and Mr. Hoover, so we just had a simple dinner with
stunts afterward, and consequently we have discovered that some
of our pledges have remarkable talent.

Because of examinations being the week before vacation, and realiz-
ing that we needed our evenings for preparation, we had a Christmas
dinner instead of the usual Christmas tree on December 20th. There
was a small tree on the table with presents, but when time for dis-
tribution came it was discovered that they were all for Florence