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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 145

The charter was granted at the Convention of 1910 and the
Lincoln Alumna? Chapter was installed the following Christmas at
the active chapter house. There were ten members initiated at this
time. We now have fifteen members paying dues and our average
attendance at the monthly meeting is from twelve to fourteen. Dur-
ing the holidays when our girls who teach are at home, we often have
eighteen or twenty present.

We meet the last Saturday of each month at the home of some
member who volunteers to do the entertaining and the refreshments
are left to the judgment of the hostess. The girls usually bring
their own work unless there is something to be done for the active
chapter. Just at present we are hemming napkins and tablecloths
that were Christmas gifts to the chapter house from the alumnae
girls.

We have a short business meeting sometime during the afternoon.
Our president, Viola Grey, finds it a difficult task to stop the chatting
of the married members about their babies. We are very proud
of our kindergarten that assembles each meeting with their mothers.

We give one party during the rushing season to help out the
active girls and meet with them once each year for dinner at the
chapter house.

We have not yet done any social settlement work as a chapter but
many of our girls are interested in this work independently of the
fraternity. We have this line of work in mind and possibly will lie
able to tell you something more definite about it in the future.

We have found our alumnae organization has filled a long felt
want and recommend it to other alumnae Alpha Omicrons wherever
there are enough to form a chapter however small.

THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO ALUMNJE CHAPTER

That the Chicago Alumnae Chapter exists today is due chiefly
to the efforts of Lula King Bigelow, Zeta. As she had kept in touch
with names and addresses of Alpha Omicron Pi alumnae, it was she
who called us together for our installation. Our chapter was in-
stalled by Dorothy Noble Safford, October 26, 1911, at the horns of
Carolyn Dorr, Berwyn, Illinois. Only five of us were there but
we were filled with so much enthusiasm that we had no doubts
as to the future of our chapter. Mrs. Bigelow was elected our
first president.

Using the first year as a precedent for annual events, our year's
schedule was arranged early this fall. We meet each month and
combine business and pleasure.