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active and alumnae chapters, and please do not get the idea that you ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE
are giving something for nothing. In return you receive To DRAGMA
as long as you live, keep in touch with the life and work of your NOTE T H E CHANGED DATE OF CONVENTION—JUNE 21ST-23RD!
fraternity, and grow young in so doing.. Is not Eternal Youth cheap
at ten dollars? Chapter Editors take Notice! There will be no chapter letters in
the September number. Announcements will be sent you for the
TTwo YEARS W I T H T O DRAGMA November.
H E Editorship of To DRAGMA is the highest salaried position
about which I know anything. The Editor is paid daily with Chapters, are your To DRAGMAS bound? Do not depend upon
recompense so high as to he difficult of computation. Her salary knowing the whereabouts of loose copies. Do not depend upon
differs from that obtained elsewhere in its purchasing power. Noth- being supplied later by the publisher. We have few back copies.
ing in the world is so dear, so costly, so expensive that it cannot Bind them now.
be bought with appreciation, friendship, a sense of humor, enthusiasm,
willingness, punctuality, loyalty, and neighborliness. A l l of these An unofficial notice has been received of the granting of a charter
go to make up the Editor's daily check. Who could be better paid to the petitioning group at Vanderbilt. Although time prevents
than she? any account of the happy event in this number, Vanderbilt may be
sure of a welcome now and of space in the fall.
For all of these inestimable riches which the present Editor has
received, she thanks you who have given her them without stint. The Editor is publishing no Honor Roll for May. Can you guess
May all succeeding editors be paid as well! why? Because every one of the thirty-two chapter letters was
absolutely on time!
HTwo YEARS W I T H O U R OFFICERS
A V E you sought help during these two years from a certain We have not yet received the installation date of Puget Sound
mining town in the California mountains that you did not Alumnae Chapter, installed recently by Mrs. Esterly. We extend
receive it fourfold, clothed in the best advice possible? Has your a hearty welcome. The Puget Sound. officers and letter will be
puzzled chapter secretary or treasurer addressed frantic inquiries printed in the November number.
to Boston or Providence that have not been answered as quickly as
two loyal Alpha O's and Uncle Sam could answer them? In your This is an invitation to you. A hearty thank you to Rho and
Alpha O experience have we ever had a finer President, a more prompt Chicago Alumnae is in order. Be sure to notify Mrs. Hennings, the
and careful Executive Committee, or better officers? Rho secretary, or the alumnae president.
Dear Miss Chase:
This is neither "soft soap nor hot air." It is the Truth. We have
lived through a banner two years. Let us give genuine apprecia- I n behalf of the Chicago Alumnae Chapter and Rho, I would
tion and heartfelt thanks to Grand Officers who have never been like to ask that those Alpha O's who pass through Chicago on their
excelled. way to Convention plan to spend at least part of a day here so that
those who cannot possibly go to Convention can have a chance to
HTwo YEARS W I T H A L P H A O meet those that get this far. We would be glad to show them Evans-
A V E you counted them—from Upsilon to Vanderbilt? Have ton and to entertain them for the time they are here. I wonder
you named them—from Indianapolis to Puget Sound? And i f you could put this invitation in To DRAGMA? I f we do have a
as you count and name, remember it is not expansion without growth, special train it could leave Chicago in the evening, the ones from
not quantity without quality, not numbers without strength! the West could arrive in the morning, and thus we could have a day
together. I wish we could know how many would be able to do
this. W i l l they please notify us of their time and place of arrival.
MERVA DOLSEN HENNINGS.
