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'''Charter members:'''
Carrie Belle DeGraff, Lulu Elizabeth Mann, Cora Miller, Myrta Susannah Myers, May Varney, Martha Jane Walker
'''Fraternity Council Members:'''
The chapter was small and intimate. Meetings were held in the girls’ rooms at first, but in 1884 the faculty offered a room, and by 1930, there were four adjoining rooms that had been redecorate often “to conform to the fashions of the times.” The July 1903 issue of The Key shows a picture of one of the “two pleasant rooms in the southeast corner of the third floor,” with the couch where “our headaches have been soothed away and our misunderstandings straightened out” covered with cushions in its corner. Overhead, on the diagonal, jammed against the window frame and the entrance to the other rooms, appears an enormous key, probably eight feet long... The fleur-de-lis covered globe on the table lamp looks very much like the one at Kappa Headquarters. The tasseled portieres between the two rooms, “the dear old place,” hang in careless asymmetry.
Xi members included the daughter of an early vice president of the college, Frances May McElroy, as well as the daughter of a former president, V. Ruth Anthony Gray. It was she (Mrs. Gray) who designed the cover used by ''The Key '' between 1913 and 1928. Lucy Bell Webster Caldwell was once president of the Woman’s Club of Barcelona (Spain), and assistant director-general of the Pan-American Round Table in Mexico City. Mildred Moore Anderson was once parliamentarian for the Daughters of the American Revolution, and wrote a handbook of parliamentary law. Florence Crum Evemeyer was a writer and world traveler.
Ryll Spaur Clark, initiated in 1928, now a retired teacher, was the only “lone pledge” that Xi ever had, and she was the only pledge on the Adrian campus for nearly a year.
