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paid f r o m time to time as it became due, and all past due loans
have been paid i n f u l l .

There are, at the present time, five hundred and seventy f u l l
paid life subscribers and five hundred and fifty-two partially paid
life subscribers, a total of one thousand one hundred and twenty-
two. The f u l l paid subscribers are f o r the most part alumnae,
although two of the chapters, Epsilon and Beta Phi, require imme-
diate payment in full by initiates. The partially paid subscribers
are almost all undergraduates, although many alumnae have taken
advantage of the instalment payment plan evolved by the Trustees
and the Executive Committee.

College men and women have been importuned without ceas-
ing during the past five years and most of us have given to our
colleges and universities almost literally "until it hurts." The
Endowment Fund of Alpha Omicron Pi is very different. Y o u
do not "give"; you "invest," and you receive a dividend on
your investment four times every year as long as you live. The
life subscription costs $15.00, and while that money works f o r
our undergraduates and active chapters in helping to solve their
financial problems, the subscriber receives T o D R A G M A regularly.
It is hoped that there will be at least fifteen hundred life sub-
scriptions in the Endowment Fund before the Minneapolis Con-
vention in 1925.

No statement concerning the Endowment Fund is complete
without mention of those two illustrious members of Alpha Omi-
cron Pi who conceived and develojred the Fund as it is func-
tioning today. I t was during the presidency of Lillian Mac-
Quillin McCausland, Beta '99, of beloved memory, that the idea,
largely hers, flowered into a happy reality. Helen St. Clair
Mullan, Alpha '98, and one of the Founders of the fraternity,
has served as Chairman of the Trustees of the Fund since it
was established. T o her the fraternity owes a debt of gratitude
that cannot lightly be repaid, f o r developing an efficient, enduring
organization and for her untiring and devoted administration of
the Fund.

Mary H . Donlon, Trustee.

See page 273.