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bearing with stimulating encouragement upon personal achievements, !
loyal co-operation of chapters, the interest and pride we take in one
another and the immeasurable value of happy personal relations. These I
editors helped us to know one another and cemented national feeling.

It is due also to the fact that the magazine had for a long time
the same format under the two administrations. Etta it was who first
gave us a magazine with the table of contents on the cover—the New
England influence of the Atlantic Monthly, perhaps! I n this Betty
followed her for a while, though she changed to the "red and grey one"
in the second year of her incumbency.

Their separate contributions came from Etta's graces and her flashes
of originality so long well-known to us, and to Betty's effective, con-
structive persistence that gave roundness to her plans, and her dauntless
spirit that was not downed by post-war conditions, by personal pressure
of duties, or by any delays or discouragements.

The Business Managers, Carolyn Pulling and June Kelly (Delta)
had to face the singular difficulties confronting all who bought and
used print paper and photoengraving and type for a long period follow-
ing the war.

June Kelly—Margaret Theresa June, officially, but always appro-
priately June to us—helped greatly in this predicament. For she held a
position with the famous Plimpton Press, and could give us expert
leadership and protection.

The last few years of To DRAGMA are too recent to be history, too
fresh in our minds to need recording. Nearly everybody knows with-
out telling how that sturdy and insistent, brilliant and tactful little
hustler, Elizabeth Bond (Tau), made us all work for To DRAGMA and.
like i t ; and how she it was who began what may be called the modern
magazine, lightening and brightening it and winning high praise in high
places. And who does not give thanks now for that "iron hand in velvet
glove" of Kathryn Bremer (Matson), (Tau) who as Business Manager
insisted—(as she has done also as Grand Treasurer) that we cut our
clothes to our cloth financially, with the result that, though we may have
felt kind o' skimpy at the start, we soon emerged with fuller and hand-
somer garments than ever before and stepped out with more ease and
a sounder conscience?

Certainly being the latest, the present state of To DRAGMA should
be the best it has ever known. I t is the best. I t combines the con-
tributions of all the others and adds a professional zest that it has
never had before. I shall refrain from boasting—the exhibit is before
you. I f there is a better looking, more satisfying organization-magazine
anywhere than the one we are issuing now, I have never seen it. I
like it because it combines an alive and joyous youthfulness with dignity
and decorum. To DRAGMA does us honor. Let us show our gratitude
by heartiest co-operation and by every tangible proof.

In a true sense, we have all been editors and managers of our maga-

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