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By EDITH HUNTINGTON ANDERSON

President of Alpha 0micron Pi

- f - To A L L M E M B E R S of Alpha Omicron Pi everywhere—alumnae and
active—I bring the greetings of Council and the Executive Committee.

We hope this may be a year of success for everyone, and especially that
your interest in the activities of the fraternity may grow with active partici-
pation in its affairs wherever you are.

Convention last July was stimulating to those who were able to attend,
and its accomplishments, of which we are proud, are recorded elsewhere.
The reports of officers and committees indicate that the fraternity is in a
very stable condition, and has weathered the depression in a most creditable
manner. By this I do not wish to infer that there is nothing to be done in
or by our chapters. We can never relax our vigilance if we are to maintain
our high standards. But the officers are in closer touch with the chapters
and their problems than I believe they have ever been, and the chapters and
their officers are cognizant of the fact that they must cooperate and come to
the national officers with their problems before they become acute. The
splendid record of our past President, Kathryn Bremer Matson, in visiting
every chapter has strengthened our position, and we hope this record may
be continued. We hope, too, that District Conventions may again be possible
this school year, for they add to the solution of chapter problems, and the
fraternal spirit of the groups.

Our National Social Service Work is an established thing, and while
we did not raise the budget required for the work the past two years, we
know that increased dissemination of information regarding the work to
alumnae will increase the revenue for its support. Not all our members have
been reached with the appeal for this worth-while project, for we have all
long wished for a unified national work to hold our interest as alumnae, and
to give us something for which we could work. We have such an interest
now, and we do not believe the older alumnae, in particular, realize the size
and potentialities of the Alpha Omicron Pi of today, and what the fraternity
could accomplish with the united effort of its more than seven thousand
members. Alpha Omicron Pi has grown into a large fraternity, well organ-
ized, and has the ideals upon which it was founded to support and perpetuate.
Our work is not for the few officers, not for the actives or the comparatively
few alumnae organized into chapters. It is for every member of Alpha
Omicron Pi. We feel that every member wants to know of our aims and
to have a part in their realization.

The Executive Committee, and your President in particular, feels it an
honor and a privilege to have been entrusted by you with its position. We
are always at your service in every problem, no matter how trivial it may
seem to you. Bring your accomplishments as well as your hopes and disap-
pointments to us and we shall listen with an attentive and open mind, and
give of our best counsel to you always.