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delight. Judging f r o m the success we have had thus far, we w i l l certainly
be able to lay the cornerstone in June. The campaign opened i n Lynchburg
with a very enthusiastic rally at which Laura Radford Yates's children
played a prominent part. We made a contribution through our chapter aside
f r o m our individual pledges, and by Christmas we'll be "over the top."

D u r i n g the f a l l , several of Kappa's alumnae have come back to visit.
Helen H a r d y and Anna Taylor were here about Thanksgiving, H i l d a Gleaves
came to see her grandmother and Ella Thomas spent several days with
Frances Allen. We do have the best time reminiscencing together! We just
wish f o r more opportunities to meet with more A l p h a O's.

E L I Z A B E T H B R Y A N W I L L I A M S , '15, Chapter President.

WASHINGTON ALUMNiE

The Christmas season finds us greatly reduced in numbers but still much
alive; Margaret Durkee Angel has moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to our great
disappointment, and a number of the other girls have gone back to college.
Katherine Brown sprang a surprise on us by "up and m a r r y i n ' " without
giving us a word o f warning, and her husband, M r . Lewis Murphy, was unkind
enough to take her way out to Oklahoma City to live. Our letters f r o m the
girls who have left us, however, are f u l l of most interesting accounts of what
they are doing f o r the fraternity elsewhere, which compensates somewhat f o r
the loss of them.

I t was our great pleasure to spend an evening with Mrs. McCausland and
Mrs. MacPhie while they were here attending the Panhellenic and Editors'
Conference. We all had supper together at the Government Hotel and then
spent a cozy evening i n the Y . W . C. A. House nearby. Needless to say,
we went home that evening f u l l y convinced that no fraternity at the confer-
ence had better representatives. Lucy Somerville of the New Y o r k Alumnae
Chapter and Ella Thomas, both old Kappa girls, dropped in on us at our
November meeting.

We celebrated Founders' Day by holding a ritual meeting in Rochelle's
room over at the Government Hotel, and though we were few i n numbers we
made up for it by the wealth o f loyalty and love in our hearts for dear old
Alpha.

We are hoping that all old members of the Washington Chapter who have
not already done so w i l l send i n their pictures and data f o r the Scrap Book.

When giving gifts to your old Alpha O friends, follow our example and
send them a year's subscription to T o DRAGMA ! You couldn't give them a
finer present!

R E B E C C A B. L A M A R , '16, Chapter Editor.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNiE

The work of the year is now i n f u l l swing and we are as busy as bees.
We find time, however, to get to meetings once each month, and never weary
of reviewing our "good old college days." Our meetings are held in Psi's
house and take us right back to the campus. A t the first meeting, Avis sur-
prised us by serving "eats." Our second meeting was held with Psi Chapter.
We all had supper together at the chapter house (Violet and Ruth are
surely wonderful managers) and then, moving to the chapter room, a ritual
meeting was held by the combined groups. I t surely made our hearts beat
quicker to be all together again f o r that beautiful ceremony. On the eighth