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whom we hope to bring out to meetings before long. W i l l you continue to
help us by sending names and addresses of Washington alumnae to A d r i -
enne Shreve, 1729 Kilbourne Place, northwest?

Following the talk by Miss Louise O. Beall, secretary of the Asso-
ciated Charities here, our chapter has volunteered to do friendly visiting
for the organization. This work will be, for the most part, in malnutrition
cases, each of us taking a family and supplementing the work of the paid
dietetics expert by making weekly calls on the family and seeing that her
instructions are carried out. The work is entirely voluntary and will rest
with the individual member of the chapter. Already, Margaret Jean
Kutner has agreed to be a friendly visitor to a certain family and Betty
P. Farrington has been doing publicity work for the Charities.

We celebrated Founders' Day with a dinner at the LaFayette hotel,
followed by ritual in rooms we had reserved f o r that purpose. Eight
attended the dinner. To you larger chapters, that will seem small, indeed,
but to us it was a treat to have so many together at the same time. We
discussed at length the national philanthropic work and agreed upon a
definite program which we are submitting to our vice-superintendent.

Two of our number, Pauline Hobson and Margaret Penn White, have
expressed their intentions of going to convention. As we now have all
of nine members, our chapter roll has increased thirty-three and one-third
per cent since October. Three girls at convention would mean the same
percentage of our entire enrollment. I n such a small chapter, percentages
sound much more encouraging. We trust that this letter does not sound
too cheerful—we still have our many troubles or problems—but the Wash-
ington chapter seems to have been engulfed in the wave of Coue-ism
which is sweeping the country. That is, "Every day, in every way, we
are growing better and better."

CORNELIA MUNSELL.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNAE
I t is not often that the Philadelphia Alumnae can throw business
to the winds and have a "real, honest-to-goodness" party. But Founders'
Day afforded this opportunity and every alumna entered into the celebra-
tion with the wholehearted joy of college days. We were not alone in
our pleasure—but had as in former years, Psi chapter and their rushees
as our guests. {Catherine Thomas came down f r o m Easton to be with
us, and Patricia Hart Drant deserted her profession for a few happy
hours. We played bridge in the afternoon, had a delicious supper about
six-thirty; distributed a few little prizes among the freshmen; and after
singing our fraternity songs went home with light and happy hearts.

But we were soon to meet again for a more serious purpose. Our
regular December business meeting fell on the following Monday. Kath-
erine Thomas stayed over f o r meeting in order to give us some ideas about
the National work. The chapter was very enthusiastic about her plan for
raising funds and immediately elected Irene Greene Mather to handle the
magazine subscriptions f o r the chapter.