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Our December meeting, which should have been held on the'
first Wednesday, was postponed until the following Tuesday, so
it would fall on Dec. 8th. Mrs. Stanhope King was hostess. We
were delighted to have with us a visitor from the Cleveland, O.
chapter—Lucile Dvorak. Plans were made for the sending out of
a general news letter to all graduates of I I chapter not affiliated
with an alumnae chapter, making use of the letter to ask for a
small donation to the Lucy Renaud Fund. This was tried last
year with considerable success. I t was announced that the actives
had made $50.00 on the rummage sale and that they had given the
Fund $20.00. This enabled us to pay off our final indebtedness to
the Child Welfare Association and the Lucy Renaud Clinic will be
formally dedicated soon.

Our January meeting was pushed up a little and held the Mon-
day after Christmas in order to give AOIIs home for the holidays a
chance to see each other. It was held at Louise Church's and there
was an unusual attendance. The actives had been invited, too, and
most of them who live in New Orleans were present. Miss Sarah
Bres and Miss Clara Hall were there, also Rochelle Gachet and
Mrs. Turner (Evelyn Piggott) and Gladys Anne Renshaw, who
has finished her course at Chicago and is back here to teach the rest
of the year at Newcomb. Betty Bethea and Georgia Morrison, who
were here on a visit were enthusiastically wejcomed.

. But—I'm almost forgetting my few little items of real news.
Edith Bradley and Hooper Carter were quietly married on Dec. 21.
They have bought a lovely little home in Hillary St. Anna McLel-
lan Kastler has a daughter (name not vet announced), and Gertrude
Woodward Middleton, a daughter, Elizabeth Adele. The future
Alpha Os and their mothers are all doing finely. Cecelia Slack and
Stockton Estes were married in Alexandria. La.. Dec. 21, and we
regret to say they have gone to live in Mexico City.

LOUISE CHURCH.

MINNEAPOLIS

As I write this letter the Yuletide bills are pouring in, and as
you read this you will probably be worrying about vour Easter out-
fits.

Yes. the bills are coming in—and as they do I wish that I had
done A L L my Christmas shopping at the Bazaar. Yes, girls; we
had a "scrumptious" bazaar this year. I t was at the Curtis Hotel as
usual, on November 7. The few articles that remained were auc-
tioned off at the last alumnae meeting which was held in the center
of Tautown at Myrtle Abrahamson's home on Dupont. The old
Gopher pep was evident. Everybody was "brimful" of ideas—ideas
that will be fact before long if Myrtle and Irene Fraser, '23, have
anything to say.

We hope to have a Mothers' Tea during February. This affair
is for mothers of members, not members who are mothers.

We are getting more businesslike every day. Like the Business
Leagues, we are to hold weekly luncheons for alums who are em-
ployed down town and all the others who can manage to desert their
household duties and attend.

Plans are also under way for a rummage sale, which will take
place in the early fall.

The Founders' Day banquet this year was perfectly wonderful.
Again we were at the New Nicollet Hotel. Inez Downing Jayne.
Iota, made a very charming toastmistress. She likened Alpha O