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bring out the best in them. Alice Towsley and Marion Russell of the
senior class are serving as councillors in the camp this summer and our
chapter voted to give some money f r o m the treasury in addition to taking
a collection from these present to send at least one girl to camp for a
month. This seems to be a new field of handicapped children and one
which comes near home to us. •
We were so glad to welcome Wista Braly Ogle from Omicron chap-
ter, who expects to be in Boston for another year anyway. M r . Ogle is
stationed at the Boston Navy Yard, in the Marine Corps. We've never
had a sister from a southern chapter live with us before and we are most
enthusiastic. Some of us, including Wista, attended the last meeting of
Delta chapter in June, when they initiated Peggy Pettigrew and then ad-
journed to the home of Prof. Neal. where Mrs. Neal entertained us. The
party was to give us an opportunity to see Helen's trousseau and wedding
presents, as she was married the following Saturday.
Our first meeting of the fall will be held on Sept. 27th and on the
last Saturday of each month following. We welcome every Alpha O who
will be in Boston this winter. Don't wait until the last meeting.
A L I C E J. SPEAR. Erwin to Allan Wilson and Ethel Widner to John Bentley.
LOS ANGELES A L U M N A E
Are the rest of you having as lovely a summer as we are out here
in Southern California? I t is too lovely to resist, so our members have
scattered to the beach or the mountains—vacationing to the last minute.
As a result, we did not have a meeting in July and our August meeting
is going to be a picnic at the Upliiter's Club in Santa Monica Canyon
as the guests of Hazel C. Alter. How I wish all of you could join us.
Instead of a meeting in June, we had a tea to entertain the local
sororities at the Southern Branch of the University of California. I t
was held at the University Women's Club. We had lovely music by
Mrs. Kistler and such nice refreshments. Representatives of the locals
came and the Alpha O's made charming hostesses. A good many locals
have been interested and have invited us to meet their members. Our
investigation committee is hard at work and hopes to have a recommenda-
tion to send Rose Marx very soon. We are very fortunate in having
Mabel Jackson on the faculty. She is one of us and one of the university
at the same time.
Have you heard that our last year's president, Dorothy Dalton Kline-
peter, has a baby boy? Needless to say, her activities in Alpha O will
be somewhat curtailed for a while.
For a number of years we have been having a scholarship at Southern
Branch. A little Russian girl has been enabled to continue her studies in
art. Now what do you suppose has happened? She has been married
and now her husband plans to have her finish without our help. As our
fund is low and we have the national work to support, we plan to use
this year in accumulating a little surplus and next year once more have
our own scholarship.
Erna Taylor and Florence Stewart had a tea f o r our little protege
shortly after she was married. I t was held at Erna's new home and wjas
so nice.
MURIEL T. MCKINNEY.
! ~ LINCOLN ALUMNAE
We have been very busy the past year helping the active chapter in
raising money for our new house. We have our lot bought and paid
for, a beautiful one that we have always wanted, just two blocks from
the campus, with lovely old trees and standing high on a terrace. We
bought this property with the Thetas and we are going to build the
two houses facing on a court. We all dream of a brick wall and an iron
gate around the whole lot but as yet it is only a dream as we will have
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to earn the money for this extravagance. We hope to build within a year
so we are all working hard with that in mind.
We have been doing some rushing this summer, we had a tea at
Maude Logan's lovely new home and had planned a picnic breakfast at
the Automobile Park but on account of the weather had to change it at
the last minute to the home of Dorothy and Darleen Woodward. W i t h
so many girls away for the summer it is almost impossible to have large
parties but we are rushing in a small way.
At present we have only one member that has announced her engage-
ment, Darrina Turner is to be married this fall to Francis G. Paige of
this city.
We have had a number of weddings lately, three of the weddings
taking the girls a distance from home. Edna Froyd to Everett Scott of
Portland, Oregon; Geneive Rose to David Faust of Mercersburg, Pa.;
and Helen Wehrli to Hugh Wallace of Birmingham, Ala. The rest of
the brides are either going to live in Lincoln or near here. They are:
Helen Walpole to Harry Dunker; Pauline Moore to Floyd Ryman; Arline
Abbott to Myron Noble; Josephine Doten to William Richardson; Vero
We have only one new member to add to our family but we are sorry
that this one cannot be an Alpha O, a son was born to M r . and Mrs.
Grant Standard.
During the past few weeks two of our girls have lost members of
their families, the father of Helen Eckles Hoppe and the mother of
Emma Bennett Beckman, each passing away after a long illness.
CHICAGO ALUMNAE
In spite of the fact that we belong to the socalled "gentler" sex,
we seem to have had a decided interest in the culinary phase of our
various gatherings! I n short, the deliriously appetizing buffet suppers—
sponsored each time by a different group of girls—have contributed not
a little to the popularity of our meetings. On May 1, we were enter-
tained at the home of Goldie Halquist Buehler. At this meeting the
installation of the new officers occurred. Frances McNair was our June
hostess and encouraged the girls to sew diligently for our new house-that-
is-to-be-sometime! July 10 found some thirty of us disporting ourselves
at Lincoln Park, with Alice Kolb Mason most capably in charge of the
picnic supper. ...
In regard to national work, our efforts have been limited to voting
$25.00 for that purpose. Necessarily, our time has been largely directed
toward assisting the Rho actives with their building fund.
Next year we shall miss greatly our Marie Vick Swanson, who goes
to New York City in September. However, our loss will be New York's
gain—at least we wish them that good luck.
ALICE WILSON WARNER.
INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNAE
Since our present alumnae editor, Geraldine Kindig. is spending the
summer in Europe—these lucky and wealthy teachers—it behooves me to
contribute again. But cheer up, I am sure Geraldine will be back in time
for the next letter and perhaps she will impart some of her European
adventures.
Our meetings this summer have been very informal. We have had
two picnics, very successful ones too, to which husbands and children were
especially invited. However, I am getting rather ahead of my story, as
it were, as I should have first told of some of our doings of late spring.
First of all. the last of May, the alumnae chapter had a shower in
honor of Grace Wills. I t was a "surprise party,"—it really was a surprise
too!—and was held at Grace's home. Then in June came the wedding to