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146 TO PRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

At the September, 1913, meeting, held at the home of Merva
Dolsen Hennings, we initiated Vera Riebel, Rho. The question of
definite alumnae work was brought up and the scholarship idea was
favored.

In October we had a short business meeting in the Rho chapter
room, following the Pan-Hellenic luncheon at Evanston.

During the Thanksgiving vacation we met at one of the down-
town hotels and made scrapbooks for the children's wards in hos-
pitals. They were later taken to a home for diseased and crippled
children.

On January 2, 1914, the chapter celebrated Founders' Day with
a luncheon at the home of Marie Vick, Evanston. I t was decided
to start a membership campaign as there are now as many more
Alpha Omicron Pi Alumna? in the vicinity of Chicago as we number
in our chapter. Mere notices of the meetings have failed to gain
their presence, so we are hoping that a concentrated attack on the
part of our committee will bring better results.

A banquet for our husbands and friends will be held February 14
at the Palmer House, Chicago, at which we are expecting as jolly
a time as we had last year.

I n April we will lunch down town with the active girls of Rho,
while the March and May meetings will be social afternoons at the
girls' homes. We call no formal meetings during the summer, but
occasionally there are little, hastily planned picnics at which a few
at least are able to be present.

We have endeavored to hold our meetings often enough and with
sufficient variety in form to retain the interest of our members. We
now have a membership of seventeen, representing five active chap-
ters.

Although we have done nothing startling in our year and a half
of life as an alumnae chapter, still we feel that we have made a
start as a real working unit of Alpha Omicron Pi, since we took the
first step in the action which will result in our 1915 Convention at
San Francisco.

M I L D R E D E. M A C D O N A L D .