Page 7 - 1918 February - To Dragma

100 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

A VISIT W I T H T H E CHAPTERS

Gulliver made a deep impression on me when a child. I hardly
know i f i t was because he traveled or because he met such strange and
unusual people. I have traveled now, n o r t h , south, east, and west,
a n d I feel m u c h more important than Gulliver, f o r he never was a
G r a n d President nor d i d he meet anyone like the ones I have met.
But, really, Gulliver is the only one over w h o m I feel important.
C h a m p a i g n has a n a r m o r y so l a r g e a n d a w e - i n s p i r i n g t h a t a n I o t a
girl told me when they wanted people to feel their smallness, they
were taken there. I listened to her word, I looked up at the building,
and I felt very small. I have been shrinking ever since.

M y long contemplated journey was at last to be realized, when on
September 9th, I left Sierra City f o r Oakland to make preparations.
I t was necessary to hurry i n order to reach Boston by October 10th,
on which date the Executive Committee had planned a conference.
M y w a y l e d n o r t h w i t h P o r t l a n d as t h e first s t o p .

T h e meeting of Portland Alumna; began at Salem when Mabel
Robertson, Sigma, greeted me at the train and prepared me f o r a
further meeting w i t h the girls at Portland, where a delegation met
me at the station. Have you ridden on the Columbia H i g h w a y ?
T h a t is where we went f o r miles a n d miles, a d m i r i n g its beauty a n d
picturesqueness. I rested at Ruby N o r t o n Cornish's, N u . W e went
to the hotel f o r dinner to meet more A l p h a 0:s, to talk of college and
the raising o f babies, a n d l e f t w i t h red roses a n d perfect f a i t h that
m y t r i p was to be w o n d e r f u l , the b e g i n n i n g was so d e l i g h t f u l .

I arrived at Seattle at a disadvantage to Upsilon. College had not
opened. M i n n i e Krause and Susie Paige met me at six i n the morn-
ing, and I had breakfast with them at the Krause home on the
Sound. V i r g i n i a E s t e r l y has introduced y o u to the dogs (see N o -
vember issue) and they were there; I do not mean to breakfast, not
t h a t I w o u l d have cared, t h e y were so b e a u t i f u l . K r a u s e h o s p i t a l i t y
seems to be extended to visiting A l p h a O's a n d the active U p s i l o n ,
too. B u t that is just the Krauses. I am not sure, but I had a feel-
ing that the constantly ringing telephone was due to the actives'
c o n c e r n a b o u t m e . Y o u see t h e y w e r e o p e n i n g t h e house a f t e r t h e
long summer vacation. T h a t takes time, and I had arrived soon
e n o u g h as i t was. I d i d n o t m i n d the l o n g d e l a y i n m e e t i n g the
active girls f o r Pat Krause and Susie Paige took me over the city
t o l e t me k n o w t h a t i t is as b e a u t i f u l as P o r t l a n d . A f t e r the r i d e ,
we had lunch where I met Laura Hurd, and Mildred Loring, our
first A l p h a O c h a p e r o n . A t t h e u n i v e r s i t y I h a d a l i t t l e t a l k w i t h