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48 To DRAGMA                                                                  JANUARY, 1932  49

                            V 8 \ y phase of £oror.                                     •
                               ity work was Discussed
                               at (§t. Louis gathering                           N.P.C. delegates, ith our Ptncknev Estes Glantzberg 0*7, on the extreme right, sit tn
                              Jfeld October 2 7 to 31                                                                   formal arrangement for meetings.

W H E N the twenty-second congress of National Panhellenic met                "Bi-annual SS(. < P . Q JMeet
           at the Statler Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, at noon of October 271
            1931, Kathryn Bremer Matson ( T ) , Edith Huntington A n |          secretary; Miss Marion Mullins, substituting for Mrs. A. M. Redd,
derson (B$), Pinckney Estes Glantzberg (•&), and your editor were               both (KA), treasurer.
your delegates. Alice Cullnane (B4>), our Registrar, kept us company,
too. The organization's full membership was represented, there beJ                   In her report as chairman Miss Smith emphasized the "coopera-
ing present twenty-one active delegates, and four associate delegates.          tion and desire to increase the effectiveness of National Panhellenic"
There were also present seventy-two visiting delegates (all national offi-      which every fraternity had contributed to aid the committee's work.
cers of fraternities), each fraternity having from two to as many as six
such officers present.                                                               As secretary, Mrs. Prince outlined the work of the biennium and
                                                                                |he plans for this congress. The treasurer's report showed a substantial
    The executive committee in charge of this congress was: Miss                balance in the treasury.
Rene Sebring Smith (AZ), chairman; Mrs. Edward P. Prince (*M),
                                                                                     An excellent summary of fraternity activities was then presented
Cfour A O I I Officers ^At                                                      ^ a substitute for delegates reports; the summary having been com-
                                                                                piled by the secretary from delegates' reports received a month in ad-
                           "1                                                   vance of the meeting'

                                         I                                          A few interesting items from the summary:
                                                                                     Eighty-nine college chapters had been chartered in the two years,
                              _     ...                                         only one fraternity had granted no charters. Kappa Kappa Gamma led
                                                                                 h e list in number of charters granted, 11 new chapters; XK and Afi
NELLIE PRINCE, #M  GLADYS REDD, KA       HARRIET TUFT, B*A                      each granted but one charter; and the rest from two to six each. The
                                                                                 rend toward Canadian expansion was marked; four Canadian uni-
      Chairman          Secretary               Treasurer                        ersities. British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta and McGill appearing
                                                                                'requently in the list of new chapters. One hundred and sixty-six new
                                                                                  uninae chapters or clubs were reported also. Constructive new move-
                                                                                  nts by different fraternities were many too; perhaps new financial
                                                                                L >a n s especially life memberships, and co-organizers for new or weak
                                                                                    Pters were the more significant new features.
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