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BOSTON ALUMNAE

Our first fall meeting was held the last Saturday in October at Edna
Woodbury's in Somerville, with over twenty girls present representing
classes f r o m 1900 to 1922. A f t e r a good talk fest, renewing friendships
after a summer vacation, and a short business meeting, Edna and "Ted"
Fosdick Sanborn served a delicious supper. A f t e r supper we all talked some
more but were particularly interested in "Bicky's" very personal account of
her experience in France while studying at the Sorbonne last year. We wel-
comed Eleanor Richardson Prescott to this meeting, one of our newest
alumnae.

Twenty-six girls went out to Gladys Keith Shute's home in Melrose
the last Saturday in November, when she and Grace Wheeler Woodberry
entertained us delightfully. Beginning with 1900 class, Ethel Davis, repre-
sentative, there were girls present f r o m almost every class up to 1922
which had "Kay" Smith, who had just announced her engagement, Ruth
Earle, Elizabeth Beattie, and Eleanor Prescott. Ruth Pennell's little boy
Jack came in for a minute to greet us but decided not to stay. We were
glad to welcome Stella Dueringer Wells, f r o m Rho, who is in Cambridge
this winter and Eleanor Chaplin, from Gamma.

Elsie Tufts, who was on the committee for the Atlantic City Board
Walk, set us to work making a luncheon set f o r that. I am afraid each
napkin looked different but it sold!

Our December meeting, coming the same day as the Tufts Alumnae
luncheon was held at a lunch room in town with twenty-two girls present.
There was no business meeting but we had a pleasant chat. Especially
were we glad to see those girls who get back only at Christmas: Alice
Rich Wakefield, Isabel Owler Drury, and Annette MacKnight.

Some of our girls went back to college for a rush party and Annette
Wood, f r o m Iota, was also there. I n January comes the Panhellenic
luncheon, when we hope to have more Alpha O's present than any other
fraternity.

A L I C E J. SPEAR.

LOS ANGELES A L U M N A E

Twenty-eight Alpha O's gathered, in September, at the home of
Hazel Crabill for a luncheon given by her, Jess McKenna and Mildred
Stahl, in honor of Viola Gray, our gracious Grand Treasurer, who paid
us an all too short visit. A l l of us in the far west do enjoy every visitor,
so please look us up! The meeting was purely social, altho we did sell a
few of our Christmas gifts, the money going to our scholarship fund.
We will send our student, Nina Gregorian to college for two more years
and do hope she will graduate with honors. She is a Russian girl, whose
father, while he cannot help her financially, is very anxious for her to
have an education, and appreciates very much what the girls are doing
for Nina. Nina earns part of her expenses by assisting a family with
housework but the girls pay her college expenses.