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A T E M P T A T I O N B I D S M E S A Y , "Hello, came to you each year about your soror-
Everybody" or "Good day, world,"
but those expressions are too trite to ex- ity-
press properly the thrill that I feel at this We who have had the companionship
opportunity of getting into every one of
7,500 Alpha O hands. I wonder how of sorority sisters, the encouragement
many of you haven't seen a copy of your of women whose friendship came to us
sorority magazine in the last ten years? through candlelight have thought of you
I wonder how many of you had tucked often. We've wanted to tell you in a
your golden monogram of AO I I away graphic way what we have done and how
with old brooches and lockets and have your sorority has fared. I n one small
forgotten that once you vowed to work issue this time we can't make up for all
for and with Alpha Omicron Pi forever, the things you've missed, but we can give
and do you recall the vow that your you enough of a taste so that we hope
chapter president gave for the sorority your appetite will be whetted for more.
as she initiated you? Ah, yes, I knew
you'd remember if you stopped dead Over a few pages you can read about
still long enough to read this far. Don't our Social Service project in the Ken-
stop now please, for I've more memories tucky hills. I f you are one who said,
to recall. "But the chapter does nothing but re-
place furniture which the actives ruin,"
Remember way back when your chap- you'll find you are mistaken. Then you
ter was installed and how you'd worked can read about our new alumna? organ-
to get an Alpha O charter? Remember ization plan. I f you'll turn to the back
when a national officer came to visit; of the magazine you may read of what
when you went to convention; how the alumna? chapters are doing. Aren't
proud you were for the honors that came you surprised to find so many? Glance
to your group locally ? at the chapter roll, too, and see how long
it has grown. "The Pride of Alpha 0 "
And then you were graduated. You impresses you with the fact that the un-
left the campus and went out where dergraduate chapters are certainly not
there were no other Alpha O's or if dormant. Will you also note the notices
there were you didn't know them, nor of Fellowship gifts? Besides these, a
they you. Your pin poked holes in your non-member Fellowship of $1,000 is
dresses, and it was a nuisance to change given by Alpha O every other year and
it from one to another, so you put it is granted by the committee on Fellow-
away with the other old jewelry. And ships of A. A. U . W.
little by little you wrapped up the me-
mories and put those away, too. I f you There is a blank enclosed for you to
did meet or hear of Alpha O's nearby fill out—each and everyone of you.
or in alumnae groups, they weren't from There's a space at the bottom of the sheet
your chapter and besides you've been too for you—tell us a bit about yourself.
busy with your sewing, gay fling or big Make use of it because we want you to
business and then making ends meet to complete the circle of this message. Un-
spend much time on the letter or so that less you return it we won't know but
what you belong in our Chapter Eternal,
Alpha Omega.
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