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One member has r aised the question of the proper pronunciation of.'' liOENIXn . It seems that there is some difference of op inion regarding t h1s • . ~he name , as stated on the firs~~age of the issue of November 1, 1914, 1s f rom t he ~reek work- m 0 I ~ I -· ~he first letter comes over in to,En~l ish as ' Ph ', the di pht hong as ' oe', and the last letter as 'x '. 7he ph has the sound of ' f ', as in 'philoso phy' etc. ~he diu hthong i n t he Gr~ek , iss~ posed to have t he sound of 'oy ' as in ' joy • : but ' when carr1ed over 1nto ~nglish in the form ' oe• it is usually given the so und of ' ee •, as in 'hom eopathy, whose more ~odern spelling is ' homeo pat hy' . Just as it is bec oming more customary to use t he •e • instead of t he 'oe ' i n t he latter word , so the re are people who ap 11 the name of our magazine , when referring to the bird, as 'phenix' . ~inca we are a · Greek-lett er sorority , using the Greek words in our Hitual, it seeme d . t o t ?e Cen t ral Office to b~ wiser to use the older form of sjle:Jll ing . Al though t ner e may be some quest 1on as to the spelling, there would not seem to be any r egarding the pron unciation , so the Central Office would stat e at t his time t hat the official pronunciation is ' l!'ee-nicks '. ~h ere is one ASA who is supremely happy , bec uuse s ' e has learned t hat s he may wear a Reco gnition ~ in. She had supposed that this was to be a badge of ho nor, that ·was · to be worn only by those who had one s ome signal service for t he soro r ity . Perha ps the time will come when SA will r e cogni ze distinguished services in some way , just as othe r sororities and f r aternities do, when they arrange for spec ial jewelry for special se rvice. One of t he Miami girls writes a little more fully about t he table dec or at i ons, which were in t he suppl ementary colors, at the b i rt hday party and where t he place cards were labeled with nicknames of t he girls . She a dd ed also t hat they lingered so long at the table that t hey who belonged t o Ari on Uhoir were fined 25~ a niece for be1ng late at rehearsal . The four alumnae clubs in issouri were represen t ed on t he toast program at · ~ pha Beta ' s in i tiation banquet, t he speakers being ··rs . Alta ..I!' a i r f or t he' i sville Al n e, .h;va stuck for .tiap.nibal, Anna Pears on for ~ih e r l y , and r • lyde .ady for Un~onville. An int eresting fact i n conn ec t i on wit , t his s a. e banquet is ¥ at it was furnished by the ladies of t he e t hodist ~pi sc opal Churc h ~out h , who planne d the menu, i n s o far as was po ss ible to car ry out t he c olo r s . ~hey called the salad a f t er t h e soro r ity. Al pha Be ta wr it es t hat its ~tate ~ ecret ary and its Regist rar card catal ogs are all in s ha pe, that i has typewritten uonstituti on and ByLaws a t t ractively bound in r ed leather, t his same to be decorated with t he coat-of-arms just as soon as t he sorority as ad o_ t ed on e of f icial ly . ~ he Uha . t er b ought a b ook already b ound for t he Plad J e a nd Regular Initi ation ~ e rv ices, but has made an attractive cover for this. Huth .l)uf fey is out for six sub s cri pti ons to t he P.rill.h;l~ l X" . lf she succeeds in getting t hes e , Alpha Al pha can clai m t nat it has ev ery member a sub s criber. ~hi s chapter has not had so long an exist ence as the ot her t hree , so tlut h knows pers onal l y pract i cally every memb er . 1t is quite a differen t pro pos iti on i n t ne oth -r cas es , where g irls hav e been out of sc ho ol many years and wh ere the ac ti ves have nev er met mor e t han a very few of t he alumna~ . ~lva Doyle , however, says s he is going to get at