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IOU GAMMA CHI T HIS was the year that Iota Gamma Chi. Chi's in the surgical dressings room: we manned seasoned veteran of two wars, opened the door down-town posts for the bond and stamps cam- of mystery to the fifty-first college generation to paign. We pledged our contributions to the enter her sisterhood. The eleven pledges who Blood Bank. proud to know that "we will learned the weird ritual of the tower room and carryon" on battle-fronts all over the world. the trunk room and who stood in the hushed We did not do these things because it was our solemnity of rhe club room to hear the final duty to do them: we did them because we revelation of Western Maryland's oldest secret wanted to do them. These are the things that touched hands that October night with the matter. sisters since 1894. This was the year for taking stock. We saw This was the year when fun and laughter great institutions in the throws of transition. were most precious. The rationing that limited Looking closer home, we saw OUt old J.G.c. our menu and the transportation restrictions near the end of an important stage in its evolu- that shelved our Baltimore trip were unim- tion. The process had begun when the club portant. We will remember the hollow-voiced modified its secret policy enough to make public ghost at our fall rush. the circle of quiet faces in the names of the sisters. It was carried forward, the fire-lit Pavilion. the sisters in their party step by step, by establishing rraditiona l rush- finery in the dining room at the Kara-bel. the parties and acquiring a club-room. Last year giggling huddle in the center of the Carroll we took a long jump when we abandoned strict Theater. the sunshine on a rea-table in the junior-senior membership and voted to bid Lounge. the friendly informality of a winter sophomores. This year the transition was fin- evening in the club-room long after we have ished. In the interest of democratic harmony forgotten that we couldn't have steak or go to and efficiency on the campus we joined the Inter- Ford's. Those are the things that last. Sorority Council and legalized the Greek form This was the year when we asked ourselves of our name-lata Gamma Chi. We did this "What can we do for the war effort?" The because we mean our sorority to be, "down club-room became an arsenal of khaki yarn. and through the changing years." a living, growing needles clicked between Hey. listen to me," and part of our Western Maryland. That is our "Who'll second that?" We stationed Gamma dearest wish. 73