}ANUARY,
1945
For several years, it seemed that Mu Mu might be able to survive successfully on the Ypsilahti campus. However, the location of the college in a very active defense area, and the consequent lure of defense positions and teaching positions opened by the exodus of trained teachers to better paying jobs again created a problem for the sororities in finding an adequate number of suitable rushees. . Hence, on November 24, 1943, the National Council granted permission to Mu Mu Chapter to become inactive, under the regulations accepted by the Association of Education Sororities as a wartime procedure for chapters falling below membership standards. It is hoped that post-war conditions may be conducive to the functioning of a strong chapter on this campus. Prom Mu Mu have come three national officers : Carletta M. Corpron Supervisor of Tabernacle; Estelle Bauch, a member of the Board of Trustees; and Joy Mahachek, Scholarship Chairman. NU NU CHAPTER Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In March, 1922, there appeared on the horizon at Drexel Institute of Technology a group of r6 girls whose mutual interests made them desirous of forming what they then called Omega Delta Epsilon. For three years the sorority which Ruth Buchanan, Helen Lindenmuth, Nora Christianson, Helen Ozier, Edith Hetherington, Dorothy Bishop, Edith Diver, Anne Carter, Marjorie Bull, Harriet Lininger, Florence Garrison, Louise Johnston, Sadie Mills, Elizabeth Gifford, Ruth Brown, and Hazel Thompson had founded was an influential campus organization. The girls, moreover, had been dreaming and making plans, unknown to the rest of the school, for affiliating with a national organization. It was on Memorial Day of 1925 that 18 new Alpha Sigmas were installed as Nu Nu Chapter. The ceremony took place in Drexel's impressive art gallery which the Kappa Kappa girls had prepared for the service. Installing officers were Miss Ida A. Jewett, former National Vice President, and Miss Rosamond Root, Alpha Beta. Florence Brierley, as Nu Nu's first president, received the charter, and Mildred Burdett, first chapter adviser, with Miss Frances MacIntyre, first sponsor, watched with awe the impressive ceremony in which they were initiated with the 18 charter members: Marjorie Bull, Margaret Schwab, Elizabeth Loughery, Ruth MacCullock, Hazel Thompson, Marian Bull, Helen Lindenmuth, Florence Brierley, Elizabeth Haines, Alice Kay, Edith Hetherington, Mary Elizabeth Darlington, Ellen Johnston, Dorothy Oakes, Sarah Parshall, Dorothy Chitterling, Sarah Thompson, and Evelyn Bridell. When new Alphas had recovered fro111 the brilliance of their nationalization, they really set to work doing things. Their first important task when they returned to school in the fall of 1925 was the selection of patronesses, whom they initiated on No-
93 vember r8: Mrs . William Spivey, Mrs. K. G. Matheson, and Mrs . George W. Childs Drexel. In true Alpha Sigma fashion these r8 girls set about to perform some service to their school and community. They donated Thanksgiving baskets to needy families, a practice which is in effect even today. That same year they donated the Girls' Basketball Schedules to all women students. Social life was not at a standstill with the Nu Nu's, however- there are ' many records which tell of their "flying home" from parties in order to get in by eleven o'clock. And to make them more socially conscious, their first rushing season as a national sorority lay in the near future . Since the Nu Nu girls composed the only national sorority at Drexel, their rushing would have to be "super special." And from the results of their first rushing party at the Tea Rose, which, oddly enough, stands next door to the present sorority quarters, and of their formal dance, at whi~h they gave each rushee a corsage of red and white, it must have been very much all right-eleven girls went their way to swell the number to 29 . The first pledging ceremony fell on February r, 1926, at which time the new pledges received their red and white ribbons. Two weeks later, on February 18, pin pledging was held, and on February 27, the first initiation was held. 1928 was an eventful year in Nu Nu history. That was the year in which Nu Nu's first bady, Abbie Jane May, born to Betty Loughery, a graduate of 1925, appeared on the scene. All the girls were thrilled to death, and "Mommie" Macintyre was proud as a peacock at the birth of her first Alpha Sig grandchild. That same year saw the advent of Nu Nu's traditional Farewell Dinner for the seniors of the chapter. The first spring week-end, held in 1928 at the Lodge, but held now at the shore, appeared, and a fall Lodge week-end, still a chapter event, came into being. In September of the same year, Kappa Sigma Delta, Alpha Sigma's brother fratern'ity at Drexel- now Pi Kappa Phi-entertained the girls at a lavish party at a downtown club. Rummage sales to swell the treasury became periodic chapter functions. Miss Jean Richmond came to the sorority as chapter adviser to succeed Miss Burdett. In 1929, Nu Nu experienced a sad loss when Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer, daughter of Drexel's founder and one of the chapter's patronesses, passed away on February 3路 Mrs . Van Rensselaer, with Mrs. A. J. Drexel Paul, was initiated in 1927. To counterbalance this sadness there were many pleasantries to add to the year's records . The first woman ever to serve as editor of Drexel's paper, "The Triangle," was an Alpha Sigma in the person of Edith Rood. Her year as guide of the college's news dispenser proved that women were 路 as capable as men in fulfilling positions of great responsibility. From 1929 the years have been filled with the formation of new ideas and traditions, the carrying out of national and local ideals, the furtherance of