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We feel so fortunate to have Helen H e n r y at our meetings and we
realize what splendid work she is doing at the Women's I n d u s t r i a l
Union in Boston. She told us that our dear Caroline Fraser P u l l i n g
has been made Business Manager of T o DRAGMA. We wish to thank
Mrs. Schoppe f o r her fine and efficient work, and also would say that
we feel that what she has started w i l l be most successfully carried on
and developed by Mrs. Pulling. Congratulations, Caroline, from
your o l d sisters at D e l t a ! Charlotte Lowell, who is teaching com-
mercial subjects at Woburn H i g h School, was another busy knitter.
We were glad to have Gertrude Symmes Nash, Isabelle Combs
Healey, and Florence Walker Cannel w i t h us. Isn't it about time
for a Delta party f o r A O n daughters.
Monica Pipe, w i t h her usual charm, presided over this first meeting,
in the absence of the president. Marion Rich, whom we missed very
much.
No doubt there are many A O IPs who have friends in this a w f u l
war. L e t us a l l remember, i f we live near a t r a i n i n g camp or can-
tonment, that perhaps we might make the l i f e of some A O IPs f r i e n d ,
a little more cheery by a letter, a g i f t , or an invitation to our homes.
Mrs. E . I . Mac Phie lives in Lowell, seven miles f r o m the Ayer
Camp Denvens, and i f she can be of any assistance to any g i r l , i n
either entertaining her or an enlisted man, please feel free to go to
her any time. H e r address is 49 Daniels Street, T e l . 2925-W.
Pauline Gardner Donnell's husband is a first lieutenant i n U." S.
Signal Corps at Mammoth, New Jersey. Eva Fulton Mellish is with
her husband in the South, where he is an engineer at a cantonment.
W i l l i a m Marbsby, T u f t s '11, to whom Jane Rextron is engaged, is
at Plattsburg. E d i t h Vande Bogert's husband is a first lieutenant i n
a N e w Y o r k company. Kmiley Eveleth's fiance is stationed at Camp
D evens.
Catherine Stebbins Stevens named her baby f o r Monica Pipe. D r .
Stevens has gone to France. Eleanore Bisbee has two small parishes
i n Ohio. She was ordained October 20th at Worcester, Massachu-
setts. W e wish her success i n her work.
They say the best always comes last, and I can report that M r s .
Stewart has been our guest. H e r arrival was rather unexpected, but
oh, so welcome! We a l l were so anxious to know our President, who
has done so much to organize and strengthen A O I I . H e r time here
was short, and so filled w i t h business of visiting chapter-rooms, meet-
ing the g i r l s and f a c u l t y , that we had l i t t l e time to entertain as we
w o u l d have liked. H e r visit gave us a great inspiration and we trust
our improvement may show to her our sincerity. On October 13th,
i n Packard H a l l , the active and alumnae chapters gave a tea, intro-
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ducing the students and faculty to M r s . Stewart. T h a t evening she
took part in an initiation ceremony, and that same night left f o r the
Maine chapter. We only wish we might have had her longer. What-
ever or wherever her interest, may she always be as successful as she
is i n her present capacity as President of A l p h a Omicron P i .
Girls, who graduated last year, don't forget to j o i n the nearest
alumnae chapter. I t ' s so easy to continue an interest—but so h a r d to
rekindle it, after a year or more of separation!
E T T A P H I L L I P S M A C P H I E , Chapter Editor.
LOS ANGELES ALUMN2E
Doesn't i t seem good to get together again a f t e r an absence o f two
or three months?
We had our first meeting of the year yesterday, October 27th, at
Hazel Crabill's. I think we are going to have a very good atten-
dance this year, and I know we w i l l have a good time.
Mrs. Sutherland, a former Illinois A O n , was with us yesterday
and we hope she w i l l be a permanent addition to our ranks.
She gave us several h e l p f u l suggestions, as to where our chapter
might do a great deal of good this year.
I t seems that the enthusiasm f o r k n i t t i n g and Red Cross work is
causing the neglect of Los Angeles' needy ones. So we have decided
to do all that we can to keep a few of them out of their dire straits,
and to do our Red Cross work i n d i v i d u a l l y , rather than as a chapter.
So at our November meeting, we are each to appear w i t h a suit
case of clothing or be considered "slackers."
May Gordon offered to take the whole donation down to one of the
settlement districts, where it can be distributed to those who are most
in need of i t .
We have planned to raise our Christmas money by means of a box,
this year, i n which each g i r l may drop her " b i t . " I t seems that
benfit card parties and entertainments are being rather overdone so
we thought the box would be a good method of collecting money.
We missed some of our girls at this meeting who were i n the
habit o f attending regularly last year, and want them to be w i t h us
in November.
T h i s w i l l be a busy year f o r everybody, and we w i l l need the help
of every A O IT i n Los Angeles, so please come to the next meeting
armed w i t h a thimble, as we have some sewing to do.
Now f o r the last bit of information. We have a new baby in our
midst since the last letter; little John Wallace Graham. Even i f