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a blue table runner. The girls are busy as bees getting the room in readiness
for Mrs. Bentley, our district superintendent, who will arrive Friday night to
spend the week-end. Saturday afternoon the alumnre are giving a tea f o r Mrs.
Bentley, the active chapter, patronesses, and mothers of the town girls. How
we wish you could all be w i t h us then!

We have changed our alumnre chapter into a bridge club, and the girls are
so enthusiastic over i t that they want to meet oftener than once a month.

I have tried to get in touch with all our alumnre, but only about h a l f have
answered my postals. I f you knpw of any girls that have changed addresses
lately, please let me know. Three girls have subscribed f o r T o D R A G M A just
to get the May issue and hear about old friends. I f any letters come in too
late f o r the May issue o f T o DRAGMA, I w i l l use them in my next letter. A l l of
you who have not written to me, h u r r y up and do it now. See under Omicron
alumme notes f o r news o f our girls.

LYNCHBURG ALUMNA

Before saying anything about ourselves we want to tell you how much we
enjoyed hearing f r o m all of you through your last To DRAGMA letters and notes.
We are very interested in all your doings and news and we are glad of this
means of keeping in touch with you. Some of you we know personally, others
we know of, and the rest we are fast becoming acquainted with through our
magazine. Read i t regularly a time or two and you w i l l soon find yourself
anticipating its arrival.

Since Christmas we have had but two meetings. The one in January was
with Clara Smith Coleman and we had the most sociable time you can imagine.
Bess Masten was on a lark in New Y o r k . Nan Atkinson Craddock, Clara
M u r r a y Cleland, and V i r g i n i a Allen could not be present on account of sickness
and they are regretting still the good time they missed. The February meeting
we had to dispense with altogether on account of colds and " f l u . " but in March
we more than made up f o r lost time. Everyone was there and we attended to
all our accumulated business i n a good fashion. Margaret Bonner Bentley,
southern district superintendent, was with us and that was a real treat. While
Margaret is not an alumna o f Kappa Chapter, i t was only sophomore pledging
that keeps her f r o m being, and we are g r a t e f u l , though jealous of N u Kappa
of their privilege o f having made her an Alpha 0 . Bess Masten entertained
us at this meeting and i t is by f a r the most stylish we have had. T w o of the
girls f r o m the active chapter dressed as maids in black with white f r i l l caps
and aprons served the daintiest goodies, and true maiden like joined in all the
conversation and fun.

D u r i n g the winter we have been busy getting Kappa's alumnre, their new
names in many cases, their addresses, etc., i n shape f o r the Directory i n Sep-
tember. We have enjoyed the news of themselves they have sent i n w i t h the
required information and facts. We just wish they'd all send more!

We have already told you of our French orphan and our pledge to the
Smith Memorial. I f we enumerate the things done by our members as indi-
viduals our list would be many, many times as long. Nan Craddock was one
of the district chairmen in the campaign by the Home Economics Association
and Health Department for "more milk and better babies" and several of us
were committee members. V i r g i n i a Allen has charge of a H i g h School Girls'
Club of one hundred and fifty members, one of us does social work among
factory girls, several are very interested i n and do much Y . W . C. A . work, and