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Editors and Business Managers Tell of

Their Struggle to Give

To Dragma That Vigor Which So

Characterizes A O I I

TDEAR READERS:
H E R E follow twelve letters written to your present editor by past
editors and business managers. We asked them for reminiscent
articles or letters concerning their terms of office. We had the idea
of "compounding" the data into a composite article. Then the letters
came, each so delightful for its own individuality and for the way it
portrayed the personality of the writer, that we decided to pass them
on to you just as they came. We have deleted a few side remarks, but
otherwise they are unchanged.

We are sorry that we haven't anything from Helen K . Hoy
(Greeley), Helen Arthur, or June Kelly. Helen Hoy might have had
much to tell of the difficulty of assembling and publishing that first
crimson covered magazine, containing, besides the articles reproduced,
biographies of our Founders, intersorority history, personal and chapter
Bews, and the directory.

In our bound volumes we find that one issue was published in 1905;
one in 1906, and two in 1907. Jessie Ashlev, now gone from us, edited
the 1906 magazine and one of the issues of 1907; Helen Arthur pub-
lished the second one of 1907. Adelma Burd has spoken for Jessie
Ashley.

We should mention here Mattie Woodworth Higgins (Zeta '09),
she was business manager with Viola Gray for a very short time,
^he says she was registrar, "keeper of the card index," at the same
'me and that the double duty was too much, so she resigned the maga-
lne work very shortly after she undertook it.
Before you read the letters, we want to tell a little about what some
°t the past editors are doing now. Virginia Judy Esterly is dean of
^omen at the University of Oregon; Mary Ellen Chase is professor