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Originally Posted by Giddy
Dear Mary Poppins,
Thank you! You're totally right. I'd forgotten the best part of the story. (And now that others have followed-up so diligently, I do recall hearing her sister pledged DDD.) The image of Mobley driving up to Oxford (in a convertible I heard at the time), marching into the Chi-O house and removing her picture is just too delicious.
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I heard that she pulled up in a horse-drawn carriage wearing a hoop skirt. And that she snatched that portrait with a moxie that would make Scarlett O’Hara blush.
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Originally Posted by Giddy
Maybe my age is showing, but seems like the stuff today is so boring in comparison. It's either poor grades or drinking or drugs or sex or some other tired misbehavior that takes too much time and energy and gives little in return. These current tales of woe are not the rush stories we live to re-tell. They're sad and mundane. No inspiration.
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Perhaps the new stories will develop some interest after 50 years of recollecting and retelling. And the new stories may even include pics – for better or for worse. Most likely worse.
Meanwhile, I didn’t trip across anything to indicate that Mary Ann Mobley’s daughter, Clancy (Collins was her last name), ever pledged any sorority. She attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before graduating from Stanford. Nice article regarding the southern influence of her California wedding:
Worthy of royalty: Southern tradition reigns as the daughter of Mississippi's first Miss America weds in California
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Ole Miss Sorority rush is the best.
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Definitely – a bastion of the Old South.