Page 53 - 1911 November - To Dragma

48 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS

NEW YORK ALUMNAE
An informal reception to the 1911 girls of N u and Alpha took
the place of our last regular meeting. Hopes and plans for the
coming college year were discussed at great length. I t was decided to
have monthly instead of bi-monthly meetings, and to hold all regular
meetings at the Alpha chapter room instead of members' houses, as
we have been accustomed to do. I f the interest which everyone
showed in the coming convention can be kept up through the
year, New York Alumnae will have a large delegation at the Grand
Council meeting in 1912. Those of us who went to Boston last
year are firm believers in the wonders that general meetings of
fraternity members can accomplish in strengthening the bonds of
interest between widely separated chapters and individuals.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNAE

During the interval from May to August, the San Francisco
Alumnae Chapter had no formal meetings, for, during college vaca-
tion, all fraternity activity ceases. But some of the girls held
informal meetings, two of which deserve to be reported.

One day during July, the Alumnae Alpha Omicrons who were in
Berkeley had a picnic on the Campus. We had with us then two
of the girls that we see but seldom—Flora Miller and Gertrude
Davis Arnold. We made plans for a rush party to be given by
the Alumnae Chapter to the girls who were being rushed by Sigma.
The result was that we gave a card party on the Tuesday preceding
registration, and invited the eight or nine girls that Sigma was
then rushing, and all of the active chapter who could come. The
party served two purposes: it helped Sigma in rushing and it enabled
us to know the girls who were being considered as possible Alpha
Omicrons. Esther Boardman, long a stranger, made us a brief visit
that day.

The long vacation of the chapter came to an end about the
middle of August when the first regular meeting of the year was
held at the chapter house in Berkeley. Sigma had recently moved
into a very attractive new home, and the old girls who had not
yet seen the house made a tour of inspection that afternoon. The
meeting was well attended, and when the business had been tran-
sacted, the meeting was adjourned, and the girls had a good time
together. Grace McPherron, who lives in Los Angeles, was visiting
in Berkeley, and so was able to be with us.