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even this distance may prove no handicap to western enterprise. The chapter has
contributed to Chi Delta's house furnishings and w i l l undoubtedly find interest
increasing and the distance growing shorter as time goes on. Before we leave the
Rockies let me say that the house at Boulder w i l l be open for summer school and no
more delightful spot could be chosen for summer work. Let me say, too, that
it was a great pleasure to meet the delegates f r o m other fraternities at the Pan-
hellenic Congress and that I am hoping that the future will bring further acquaint-
ance. The Editor has already t o l d you of progress that has been made and the
next congress bids fair to be most interesting.

Kansas City brought the great pleasure of a reunion with our first Alpha
Omicron P i pledge and m y former Barnard classmate and a splendidly attended
alumna? chapter meeting and tea at her house. They too are considering the
best f o r m f o r a philanthropic work now that Phi's financial needs are less pressing.
I t was a pleasure here, as ever, to find the younger graduates present. A close
connection is kept w i t h Phi chapter through the two members of the Advisory
Committee who are also members of the Kansas City chapter. Membership and
more especially leadership in a large state university is a heavy responsibility, since
relations between university officers and students is necessarily less close and intimate
than in the smaller colleges. Consequently a chapter like Phi has an important
work to do, to guard its membership against criticism, to increase the moral sturdiness
of each individual through the strength of the whole body, and to make a
conscious contribution to the university. Such a task is not easy, but in its newly
rebuilt house which is convenient of location and plan its members are closely
associated and comfortable, and conditions are favorable f o r building and main-
taining the high standards of chapter morale essential to its stability in a large
university community.

Tulsa is one of the newest of our chapters and while it is nearer X i than to
any other active chapter and X i chapter members in the majority, several of
their fine workers are f r o m other chapters and are all striving harmoniously for
Xi's interests. Although they have only about eleven members, they have pledged
$750 to the active chapter and have already paid a considerable part of it. A
goodly sum was earned by getting together a class for contract bridge lessons,
a method of raising money, I believe, not hitherto reported. They have also
carried on philanthropic work by giving clothing to a poor family at Christmas
and donating lamps to a nurses' room in a children's hospital and plan to do still
more. Oklahoma City is about the same size, has undertaken to make the same
contribution of $750 to X i chapter finances w i t h i n about a year's time and has
made similar progress. They too have used all their ingenuity in raising money
and they too have loyal workers f r o m other chapters who are making their homes
in Oklahoma City. They have been able to keep in close touch w i t h the active
chapter through the Advisory Committee. N o two alumna; chapters have worked
more loyally to advance the interests of their fraternity and no t w o have accom-

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