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r consist of the awarding of a Graduate Fellowship and Aid for Handicapped
m 1. Graduate Fellowship.
Your Fraternity Wants to Help Me. Won't You do Your Share?
"In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have
done it unto me." St Matthew xxv, 40.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL WORK
A K T I C L E X I . -National Work.
Tlie FrattTiiity shall establish National Philanthropic Work which shall
Children.
(a) Tlie Fellowship shall be administered by a committee of alumnae,
one from each district, appointed by the Executive Committee. At least one
Founder, unless all refuse to serve, shall be a member of this committee. The
(•rand Vice-President shall be honorary chairman of the committee.
(b) The amount of at least $500 shall be set aside annually from the
Grand Treasury to be awarded as a fellowship to any woman graduate of a
college or university where a chapter of Alpha Omicron P i is installed. Appli-
cation for the award shall be made to the Grand Vice-President. Selection
shall be made by Hi,, (fellowship Committee after consultation with the fac-
ulties of the colleges of the applicants. The selection of the applicant shall
be approved by the Executive Committee. The successful applicant shall not
be limited as to her field of work.
2. Aid for Handicapped Children.
(a) The Aid for Handicapped Children shall be administered by a com-
mittee of which the Grand Vice-President shall be chairman and the District
Alumnae Superintendents members.
(b) An amount shall be allotted annually from the Grand Treasury for
the support of this work. This appropriation shall be supplemented by funds
contributed by chapters and members of the fraternity, such contributions
being on a voluntary basis. Twenty-five per cent of all monies received for
this fund shall be set aside as a Sinking Fund, the remaining seventy-five
per cent to be used as a Revolving Fund. The Sinking Fund may be used
for work of permanent nature only las endowment of a bed). At least twenty-
five per cent of the Sinking Fund must remain on deposit at interest to build
up a permanent fund for the endowment of national philanthropic work.
In the event of any recipient of aid from the fund wishing to make return
payment, such payment shall be added to the Sinking Fund. The Revolving
Fund mav be used for constructive work for the Handicapped, or to aid any
member of Alpha Omicron P i needing hospital care but unable to pay for
it herself.
(e) In so far as practicable, the location selected by the National Work
Committee for appropriation of funds for work shall be changed each year.
The selection shall be made by the committee on application to the Grand
Vice-President by the various alumnae chapters. In selecting the location the
general standing"and efficiency of the chapters applying and the nature of the
work planned shall be considered.
The by-law making organized national philanthropic work a
part of our fraternity structure has been in our constitution just
a year. The idea back of it has been in the hearts and minds
of many of our members since our foundation, merely waiting
until conditions were ripe for its development. Those who have
watched our growth and progress have bided their time, saying
little about their hopes f o r definite work of broader national in-
terest, but nevertheless, the idea had become disseminated among
the chapters, both active and alumnae, until at the last convention,
it was an unusual chapter which did not report something done
to help others. And those which had done little or no philan-
thropic work, made an apology! There was no doubt that the
convention was ready f o r legislation recognizing our acceptance
of duty to others, which would organize that work to become