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lonely solitude on the wall of our one stationary member, the Washing-
ton Alumnae Chapter would have been decidedly worth while, both
to us personally and to our fraternity as a whole.

This month we shall lose a number of the girls, though there is
some consolation in the fact that we are losing them to other chap-
ters ; Helen Duncan, Edith Huntington, Helen Ralston, and Zolan
Kidwell are expecting to go back to college; Margaret Mitchell goes
back to take a business position at the University Hospital in Minne-
apolis; Caroline Pulling will leave for Minneapolis too in a few
weeks, and May Puruess has gone for a vacation in Boston and the
Maine coast, after which she will make her headquarters in New York.
Since our last chapter letter was written, we have had three additions
to our crowd, and very valuable ones too: Hazel Hayes from Theta
Chapter and Pauline Hobson from Omicron have come to Washington
to take positions in the War Risk Bureau, and Margaret Durkee Angel
from Delta has come to live in Washington permanently, we hope.

R E B E C C A B. L A M A R , Chapter Editor.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNA CLUB

Dear Girls:

This is going to be a combination letter about the girls of Psi
Alumnas and the Philadelphia Alumnse Club, all in one. The sum-
mer is barely over, and we have had no meetings since last spring,
so there is very little news to tell. Just before our last get-together,
the Alumna; Club had planned a boat ride and picnic down the
Delaware River to Wilmington. We all looked forward to it with
much joy, when, oh sorrow, just at the time when we all should
have been starting for the boat landing, dark clouds covered the
sky, the lightning flashed and the thunder rolled. Really, it did
not look promising for a river picnic. By starting time the sun was
again shining and—just two Alpha O's found themselves on the boat
Wilmington bound. The girls who feared the storm surely missed
a good time. Helen and Cecelia sailed away in state and enjoyed
the picniciest picnic they had had for a long time—and such tales
of A O Pi days in college as were that evening recounted!

The Alumna Club, though very young, has undertaken to help in
the good work of the Needlework Guild, and during this summer
the girls have been employing their spare moments knitting garments
which are to be forwarded by the Guild to the Grenfel Mission in
Labrador. We hope to continue this work during the winter, and
keep alive in deed the spirit which Alpha O has implanted within