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EXCHANGES

Alpha Omicron Pi acknowledges the following exchanges: For November,
The F.leusis, The Key, The Crescent, The Shield, Aglaia, The Anchora, Delta
Delta Delta) The Lyre, Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Kappa, and the December
Alpha Phi Quarterly.

From December Alpha Phi Quarterly:

Our National Panhellenic delegate, A m y Comstock, Iota, has opportunity
to broaden her viewpoint by contact with the other national fraternities and to
study their methods. She expresses herself as f o l l o w s :

"The unity of any national organization demands an active worker on the
job year in and year out. A n organization to be truly national cannot be
sectional. A n y group or individual members distributed over an entire con-
tinent cannot continue a well-knit body unless a community of interest be
maintained, to accomplish which the whole must be kept informed of what
the several parts are thinking and doing. This message can only be carried
in person. There are S. O. S. calls to be answered; the administrative body,
to act intelligently, must be up to the minute on conditions and situations
everywhere; to develop in accord with national ideas and policies, chapters
must be kept in touch with each other and with the national body; there are
young chapters to be advised ; difficulties must be ironed out, not l e f t hanging
for lack of someone on the ground to see them t h r o u g h ; fields for expansion
should be investigated so that the initiative might as often come f r o m the
national as the local organization. T o maintain these fundamental facts,
essential to a strong national organization, a fraternity should have an execu-
tive secretary, sufficiently well paid to attract talents capable of meeting such
demands. A firm foundation demands the skill of a master hand to complete
the structure on the' same broad lines that inspired the original builders."

From October Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta:

The organization of this work by the Alumnas Secretary and her twenty-two
assistants w i l l be no easy task, but once established should be mostly routine
work.

I f Gamma Phi Beta means no more to you than your own college chapter
then what you want is a local society, not a national organization. I f you
want a strong national to back you up, to help you over difficult places, and to
which you can point with pride—a national that will give you a name worth
offering to freshmen—then, do your part to make the national strong. The
college g i r l owes her loyalty to her chapter and university. The alumna is
and should never be bound by her active chapter. She should have the na-
tional spirit. Her chapter is the district i n which she lives and helping the
active chapters within that district should be among her tasks. Her loyalty
and interest in her own college chapter w i l l only be increased by such a spirit.
Through the Alumna; Secretary, Gamma Phi Betas moving to new localities
can be put in touch with other Gamma Phis there i f only the rovers w i l l report
changes of address to the Alumnae Secretary. When membership files are kept
strictly to date, how easy to renew old friendships! Haven't we all, at one
time or another, wanted to get in touch with some Gamma Phi of whom we
have lost track? The directory is a w o n d e r f u l help in some cases—but how
Gamma Phis do move about!