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Army, and following the armistice I stayed in Washington f o r a
year and a half with the Bureau of W a r Risk Insurance, doing
statistical work. I n 1920 I came to New York, and until the
summer 1924 I was with the American Engineering Standards
Committee as office manager. Then I decided I simply must
get back to "Dixie," and took work with the Southern Woman's
Education Alliance in Richmond, Va., as statistician and research
worker. I left there last December, and went on home where
I was enjoying a visit with my family, when a wire came asking
me to take over the work of Executive Secretary of the Pan-
hellenic House Association. I had been on the Board of Directors
of the Panhellenic House f o r several years, and was so greatly
interested in the project that I could not resist the temptation to
do what I could towards putting across this big effort of f r a -
ternity women to demonstrate practical idealism, so I deserted
"Dixie"—temperorarily—and came on back to New York, where
I now am.

As for fraternity offices. I was President of Pi Chapter in
my senior year. I n my junior year I attended the first real con-
vention Alpha O ever held—in New Y o r k in 1908. I have at-
tended all but two conventions since then. I was one of the group
that organized the Washington Alumnae Chapter, and was first
president of that chapter, representing i t at the convention held
at Greencastle, where I was elected National Vice-President, and
undertook the task of trying to get the beginnings made towards
establishing a national work f o r Alpha O, and enlarging the num-
ber and interests of our alumnae chapters. I n October. 1923,
I was appointed by the Executive Committee as national Pan-
hellenic Delegate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of L i l -
lian McCausIand, and attended the National Panhellenic Con-
gress with Laura H u r d . who presided. A t this past convention
I was elected National Panhellenic Delegate.

As a result of the $4100 pledge made to the Hospital Fund, Kappa
Delta will have the privilege of endowing her fourth bed in the
Crippled Children's Hospital, Richmond, V a . It was only four years
ago that the hospital became the setting for Kappa Delta's national
philanthropy, but for each year there is a Kappa Delta nameplate. I n
addition to the beds, four go-carts a n d mattresses, and five hospital
cribs have been added to the hospital equipment, and numerous parties
have made the children happy at holiday-time. I n the past four years
approximately forty-five children have been helped by Kappa Delta
to find the strength of body that leads to j o y of life.

Angelas of K A .