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They aim to be a credit to the Cincinnati University, both scholastically t
and socially. H
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We want all of the other thirty-eight chapters of Alpha Omicron Pi T
to be very proud of their new chapter at the University of Cincinnati; and h
toward that goal we are bending all our efforts. a
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J^ife Payment of Dues ^Made Possible W

By E L I Z A B E T H H E Y W O O D W Y M A N , Alpha th
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SEVERAL requests came to the Central Office last year for the privi^ d
lege of life payment of dues. At the June meeting the Grand Coun- w
cil met these requests by enacting a provision for the optional payment of c
$25 i n lieu of the annual payment of $1 required of alumnae chapter jn
members and requested of all associate members. n
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What does this mean? I n the first place it means that any associate
member who so chooses may pay her Grand Council dues once for all as u
many have paid their life subscriptions to To DRAGMA, and so be f r e i
of this yearly obligation. w
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In the second place, since the constitutional provision places any suct|
life payments of dues in Corpus I I of the Anniversary Endowment Fund, do
it means that the interest of such payments will be available for cur* g
rent expense, as the interest from life subscriptions entered as Corpus V
of the Anniversary Endowment Fund is used for the publication of T 3 d
DRAGMA. Any such life payments therefore provide a perpetually as^i b
sured income for national expense such as the maintenance of the Cen| S
tral Office, visits of officers, chapter supplies and other items without whicH
our national organization could not live.

Finally, and perhaps at present most important, these life payment
will add to the sum available for loans to chapters and students as th
principal of both Corpus I and Corpus I I of the Fund is used for t h :
purpose. Many of the chapters are building houses or have just com-
pleted them and the resources of the Endowment Fund are strain 4
to the utmost to make the absolutely essential loans, even with the addte
tion of what it has been possible to loan the Fund temporarily from other]
departments.

Any members who can see their way clear to make this life payme
will, therefore, in addition to contributing to current expense as the
have been doing through the annual payment of dues for perhaps mart
years, have the satisfaction of knowing that the principal fund so a<§i
cumulated will provide just the last bit of money necessary for building
the new house planned so carefully and worked for so unceasingly an.,
without which the work cannot be begun. Or i t may be that it w f
help a deserving student over the last hard stretch of the college coun*
and place her in a position where she can use her college diploma towar
her goal of self support. As in the case of life subscriptions to the m a J
azine, payment of life dues should be made to the Chairman of th
Board of Trustees of the Anniversary Endowment Fund, Helen St. Claij
Mullan (Mrs. George V.), 25 East 83rd Street, New York, N . Y .