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he can never be an A O n , we hope he w i l l accompany his mother, A l v i n a Zumwinkle is i n New York City this year taking postgradu-
as he is such a dear l i t t l e f e l l o w and we a l l want a peek at h i m .
ate work i n Columbia University.
J E S S M C K E N N A , Chapter Editor.
Annie Jones spent the last week i n October visiting L i l a LeGore
LINCOLN ALUMNA Ritchie at McCook. Maude Pierce Logan and her husband spent
The members of the Lincoln Alumna; Chapter have been very busy part of September i n New Orleans, Louisiana.
since you last heard f r o m them doing their bit f o r Uncle Sam.
Elsie F o r d Piper is spending this year i n postgraduate study at
Early in the summer a school for women who wished instruction in Leland S t a n f o r d University. She is l i v i n g at the A l p h a O house, and
motor-driving was organized. Those who were w i l l i n g to use their
cars i n government work entered this school. Luree Beaumont, writes enthusiastic letters about the girls and her work out there.
Helen and Elsie Fitzgerald, and Zu Campbell completed the course.
They are called upon frequently to aid by using their cars in Red We all enjoyed the visit of our Grand President very much, and
Cross and war work. we are in hopes that she w i l l plan to visit us again on her way home,
Annie Jones, Edna Harpham, and Lauree Beaumont took a course for this visit was too brief. Annie Jones and Emma Beckman were
in first aid.
hostesses at a tea i n her honor at Annie's home, to which both active
Elsie Fitzgerald was chairman f o r Nebraska, o f the Navy League and alumna; girls were invited.
k n i t t i n g . She assisted i n organizing k n i t t i n g units over the state, and
packed and sent into Washington thousands of sweaters and wristers We are a l l delighted to know that Mary Ellen Chase w i l l continue
made by the these units.
to be the editor of T o D R A G M A . She has surely made i t a most
Emma Bennett Beckman is one of the instructors in making surgi- worth-while magazine and deserves our hearty support.
cal dressings at the local Red Cross headquarters.
JANE LOUISE PIPER, Editor.
Helen Piper Hagenbuch left Cleveland the middle of August with
all preparations made to spend three years in Petrograd, Russia, where CHICAGO ALUMN2E
her husband, D r . Hagenbuch, has been appointed national physical
director of Russian Y. M . C. A.'s. They were to sail from San The Chicago Alumna; Chapter, owing to unavoidable circum-
Francisco September 15th, but before that date arrived conditions i n stances, has not held a meeting this f a l l . We cannot blame it on the
Russia had become such that no women were allowed to sail, and D r . war as we do the weather and sundry other things, nor can we accuse
Hagenbuch thought best to go into war work here. H e is now i n "the Germans" upon whom blame has fallen f o r every evil under the
charge of recreations at Camp Pike, Arkansas. Helen, after spend- sun. The f o u r t h Saturday o f every month has been appointed as our
ing a month i n Lincoln, joined her husband, and their present address meeting d a y ; the place is the College Club, and the time is luncheon
is 1822 Scott Street, L i t t l e Rock, Arkansas. time. The clubrooms are on the seventeenth floor of the Stevens
B u i l d i n g , and we shall be glad to welcome any transient or resident
Emma Schreiber Hunter is now living in Oakland, California, A O n girls.
where her husband is superintendent of schools. Her address is
Apartment 407, 2201 Harrison Bouelvard. We expect to be together on October 27th at the Panhellenic
luncheon, which w i l l be held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. A f t e r -
Edna Damon Keeler of Mason City, Iowa, spent one day in August ward we plan to go to Marion Abele's f o r a short meeting. Our guest
w i t h the Piper girls. T h i s was the first time Edna has been in at this meeting w i l l be Anna Many of New Orleans, and we are a l l
L i n c o l n since 1904 when she was a freshman i n the university, and looking f o r w a r d to welcoming her to Chicago. She is here as the
her visit was too brief. Alpha O delegate to the National Panhellenic Congress.
Grace Gannon and Gizela Birkner spent their summer vacations in We send greetings to our sister chapters, and wish them success i n
Lincoln. Both returned to their former positions in September, the undertakings of this, the busiest year we shall ever know.
Grace to Nebraska City and Gizela to Creston, Iowa. Edna Spears
is teaching again in the Omaha H i g h School after spending her vaca- M A B E L C. W A L L A C E , Chapter President.
tion with her parents in Lincoln.
INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNiE
I n spite o f the fact that many of our members have been unable
to meet w i t h us f o r various reasons, we have continued our meetings
regularly and feel that we are becoming a stronger chapter a l l the
