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the week-end getting acquainted with the girls and seeing their new
house, and we came away wishing that Lambda was at Berkeley, too,
so that we could see much more of the girls.

The last year has been a most important one for the chapter. We
have adopted rituals for the installation of officers and for the initia-
tion of members, and feel that this has helped materially in perfecting
our organization. And for the first time we have endeavored to
extend our sphere of usefulness beyond the Fraternity itself. So
far our efforts have been very humble ones, but we think that this
is a question which is of interest to the whole Fraternity and es-
pecially to the alumna? chapters and hope to see interest aroused
and progress made in this work in every chapter. The appointing
of a Committee on Alumna? Work is a step in this direction and we
are hoping for splendid results from it. Last, but not least, the
chapter has had the pleasure and benefit of the presence of Margaret
Sumner and Mrs. Perry at many of its meetings. Mrs. Sumner has
been with us for almost two years, and we regret exceedingly that
she is to move to Southern California before long. Mrs. Perry will,
of course, be here until after the Exposition and we hope to see
her often.

And, speaking of the Exposition, I must tell you that we are al-
ready planning for the Convention to be held out here that summer.
We are looking forward to welcoming just as many of our Alpha
Omicron Pi sisters as can possibly come and hope that the double
attraction of Convention and Exposition will bring you all to San
Francisco at that time.

Best wishes to all the chapters, active and alumna?, for an ex-
ceedingly prosperous year.

EVELYN M . MORRILL.

President San Francisco Alumna; Chapter.

A HISTORY OF BOSTON A L U M N A CHAPTER

In writing a history of Boston Alumna? Chapter it is necessary to
go back several years before our admission into Alpha Omicron Pi.
When in 1908 we were admitted to this Fraternity, we had been in
existence nearly ten years, two years as alumna? of Alpha Delta
Sigma, a local at Tufts, and seven years as a very flourishing chapter
of Delta Sigma, a smaller National with chapters at Brown Uni-
versity and the University of Maine.

In 1895 Alpha Delta Sigma, to which we owe so much, was
founded by Grace Fickett, '96, and in the f a l l of 1899 the girls just