The author of this essay describes Emily Peace Meader's, Alpha, Colby College, life and her time at Colby College, and recounts an episode in which a young Meader wrote a short play for a group of children to perform, only to have their parents forbid the production. The script of the play is included at the end of the essay. Meader was a cousin of Elizabeth G. Hoag, Alpha, Colby College and the second initiate of Alpha Chapter.