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Committee that it purchased a pair of "crotches" for a poor man
at Christmas.

When one tries to note the activities of the alumnae chapters,
one finds it a difficult job, for they are almost as numerous as
the chapters.

A few, such as Nashville, Portland, Syracuse, Kansas City,
Chicago and San Francisco, attempt little more than aiding the
nearby active chapter, in buying and maintaining a house, rush-
ing, or in other vital ways. Chicago, however, before it under-
took to insure Rho a house on the campus, worked in conjunc-
tion with the Chicago Recreation Center.

Perhaps the most striking thing accomplished has been the
equipment of a clinic for the New Orleans Child Welfare Asso-
ciation by New Orleans Alumnae. I n 1921 the chapter began
to hold rummage sales with a view to establishing a memorial
to Helen Gravenberg, who had died in the influenza epidemic. I n
1923 they opened their clinic, and now the chapter is raising
money for another in memory of Lucy Renaud. Boston, in 1911,
established a scholarship to be given annually to a T u f t s woman,
and, in 1922, Cleveland made its first scholarship award.

W o r k i n g with the local organized charities, either as a chapter,
or individually, has seemed to be the best way to engage in phil-
anthropic work in many places. In this group are Lynchburg,
which has cared f o r the same family for several years; Indian-
apolis, which gives the material and makes garments f o r babies
in the city hospital; Bangor, w hich aids the M a i n Seacoast Mis-
sion ; Seattle, with a concession f o r a tea shop run by the Ortho-
pedic Hospital; Omaha, which sews for the Salvation A r m y ;
Knoxville , which takes a day a month at the Health Center; Phila-
delphia, which sews f o r the Needlework Guild and gives two
afternoons a week at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as
volunteer workers under the Social Service; and New York,
which contributes to the support of a French war orphan, sews
for the Needlework Guild, and works with the New York Visit-
ing Committee.

In addition to the work mentioned above, Bangor has this
winter fitted two children's eyes with glasses and paid the ex-
pense of a small boy who had to go to Boston to consult a spe-
cialist about a disabled hand. This summer" Boston is paying