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A O IT N A T I O N A L A L U M N / E W O R K

B Y R O C H E L L E C A C H E T , Pi, Chairman
T H E Committee on Alumna? W o r k is most happy to report that
a copy o f the November T o D R A G M A has been mailed to every
member of A l p h a O. H a v i n g made some suggestions as to possible

forms f o r our alumnae work, the committee l e f t that phase of its

duties f o r a while, and has been busy perfecting and carrying out

the plans by w h i c h every one of our number w o u l d be put back i n

touch w i t h the fraternity again through T o D R A G M A . For alumna?

work to be effective, i t must be supported, not by a few, but by many

alumna?. So the committee f e l t that arousing the interest o f the girls

through the magazine was the best first step i t could take i n develop-

ing a national alumna? work.

Mrs. MacPhie cooperated most heartily, and arranged f o r the

November magazine to be an "Alumna? Numl)er." Mrs. Pull-

ing, f o r the last month, has not known that she was not a member o f

our committee, so busy have we kept her helping us on the practical

side of having this large number of additional copies of the maga-

zine printed. She is a model of a "cheerful v i c t i m . " O f course we

love all the members of our big family, but the Committee on

Alumna? W o r k has settled on a "favorite sister"—Rho Chapter, i n -

cluding Mrs. Hennings. When the tremendous task came up of

addressing the m a i l i n g wrappers f o r a l l those 1,400 extra copies of

T o D R A G M A — w e d i d nothing! But our thoughts were warm and

appreciative as we accepted Rho's offer to do this f o r us, and heard

of the many checkings of address lists and w r i t i n g out of endless

names being turned into a "party."

The financing o f these extra copies of T o D R A G M A m i g h t have

been managed by a definite tax on a l l chapters, active and alumna?.

But this plan d i d not seem f a i r or wise. I t was not f a i r , because

those chapters who have worked hard to reach a high percentage of

subscribers to T o D R A G M A would bear the neglected responsibility

of chapters who have been lax i n this respect. I t d i d not seem wise,

because the spirit of our alumna? work must be service, a voluntary

giving, and it would not develop that spirit to have an obligatory

tax connected with the paving of the way—through T o D R A G M A —

for our alumna? work.

So the Executive Committee decided to appropriate to our com-

mittee—now, instead of later—what w i l l be the nucleus of a " N a -

tional F u n d f o r Alumna? W o r k . " T h i s we were to use to have the

extra copies of T o D R A G M A printed. Then we have asked the col-

lege chapters—meaning both active and alumna? wherever f o u n d —