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in f o r awhile. O f course we sang to M r s . Perry and to the Alphas and to
Anna Many.

We are fast becoming, by the way, a singing chapter. We sing to every-
body and to everything, and after the business of the evening is over, we sit
around on the floor and sing. I f we do not know the songs, Clare Graeff
teaches them to us, while M a r y Sumner plunks her guitar in the hope that we
might possibly strike the right key and stay there. We improve with every
practice, however, as Clare w i l l tell you. Last time our efforts were long and
loud. We rehearsed every song in the songbook until we suddenly found
ourselves in the midst o f —

"It's always f a i r weather when we Alphas get together."
Then the rap-tap-tap o f the rain on the roof stirred someone to move that we
banish that song f r o m our repertoire.

For the coming year we have several projects on hand. One is the Ashley
Memorial. I t is Nu's wish—and we are anxious to help Nu—to establish a
scholarship in the New Y o r k University law school as a memorial to Jessie
Ashley's father, Dean Ashley, who f o r so long a time served the university.
Another is the care of our little French orphan, Germaine; and still another
is the f u r t h e r i n g o f the work of the executive council in its efforts to keep alive
the interest in the fraternity of every A 0 IT—that is, to make our fraternity
entirely and intensely national.

The New York A l u m n a extends to all the chapters its greetings and hearti-
est wishes f o r the New Year.

THEODORA D . S U M N E R , Pi '14, Chapter Secretary.

(The Editor wishes to congratulate the New York Chapter upon this very fine letter.)

SAN F R A N C I S C O A L U M N / E

Alumnae of the Bay Cities continue to meet regularly on the first Saturday
of each month f o r a brief business session followed by an hour's gossip over
tea and sewing. A t the December meeting, held at the active chapter house,
we hemmed table napkins for the "House" and planned the chapter's Christ-
mas g i v i n g . We are providing a Christmas dinner w i t h toys and g i f t s f o r the
children of a family of six. Then in conjunction with the sixteen other groups
that f o r m the local Alumnae Panhellenic, we are assisting in arranging a
Christmas party f o r some two hundred poor children.

The members of the Hillside Club have most generously granted the use
of the club-house and the wonderful tree to be decorated f o r their own chil-
dren f o r one afternoon of Christmas week and Panhellenic is providing auto-
mobiles to gather up the children, toys, entertainers, and "goodies" to eat.

F L O R E N C E E . W E E K S , Sigma '09, Alumna Assistant Business Manager.

PROVIDENCE ALUMN2E

Best wishes to everybody f o r a very happy New Year. When you read
this the New Year w i l l be well on its way and let us hope it w i l l be just brim
f u l l of good things f o r us a l l . We feel very proud that our new Grand Presi-
dent belongs especially to us and we know she is going to be one big inspira-
tion to every chapter in A O I I .

We have had our meetings regularly since October, although I have been able
to be at only one as my small daughter keeps me at home most of the time.
We celebrated Founders' Day by a luncheon and a good time together. We
all live so f a r apart that we rarely all get together f o r a meeting but we are
t r y i n g to help a little i n solving the various problems of the fraternity by