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Bloomington Alumnae Give Lamp lieve the Alumnae Chapter f r o m excessive na-
Shades to Beta P h i tional assessments for the potential members.

By Analie Shazv Hcpley, M The nominating committee submitted the
following slate of officers f o r 1934-35: Presi-
ROSALIE ESAREY BORLAND ('23) had our dent, Marv Heald (A '22) ; 1st vice president,
December meeting at her home with Mary Beth Ringer (A '32) ; 2nd vice president, Mar-
Frances Marxson Wylic ( E x . '32) as her garet Amon ( 0 '18) ; corresponding secretary,
assistant hostess. We gave lamp shades to the Frances Heald (A '30) ; recording secretary,
active chapter f o r the house f o r Christmas Olive MacPherson (A '33) ; treasurer, Edna
and gifts of money to the local charity or- Woodbury Webb (A '12) ; editor to To
ganization. DRAG MA, Dorothy Hilton Downs (A '23) ;
historian, Charlotte Lowell (A '03) ; herald,
We held our Januarv meeting at the home Annette MacKnight Harvey (A '14) ; Pan-
§E Irene Ryan ('24). Helen Reiff Million hellenic delegate, Octavia Chapin (A '13);
(Ex. '25) was her assistant hostess. Charlotte hospitality committee, Beth Ringer (A '32),
Shaw Ellis ('28) and Pauline Ellis ("33) had Dorothy Bartlctt Buck (A '13), Anne White
our February meeting at Charlotte's home. ( 9 '18) ; Founders' Day, Margaret Rourke
We are planning a benefit bridge party to be (A '30), Gladys Nason (A '30), and the A
held at the chapter house sometime this spring president; membership chairman, Margaret
and a rummage sale. Burton Harter ( I '27), Elizabeth Morris (A
On March 14 we met at the home of Mvra '33) ; nominating committee, Genevieve Fos-
Esary Mayes ('22). Laura Alexander ('23) dick Sanborn (A '10), Blanche Hooper (A
was her assistant hostess. A t this meeting we '04), Jean Lamb (A '33).
elected our officers f o r the coming year. They
are as follows: Jennie Carpenter Bowen ('22), The March 24 meeting was held at Gladys
president; Helen Million, vice president; Pau- Bryant Moore's in Waban, with Lorca Jame-
line Ellis, treasurer; Rowcna Nash ('33), sec- son as her right hand assistant. We were
retary. We are making plans now f o r our most fortunate to have Eva Fulton Mellish
('06), who has been doing landscape garden-
annual bridge f o r the seniors of the active ing in and around Maiden this last year, talk
chapter. to us on the "Flowers of Old New England."
This was followed by many individual garden
Boston Alumna? Raise $50 f o r problems being discussed. Gladys' delicious
meal was consumed to the rhythm of every-
National Work one getting caught up on the latest bits of

By Mary Estelle Heald, A news. We must not forget to mention two
very fine assistants in Miss Leslie Moore and
-4- T H E JANUARY MEETING, as last year's, was Master Bill Moore who saw to it that we did
omitted that the various sectional groups not lack f o r seconds. I t is a real delight to
have so many from other chapters with us at
might hold their parties to make money f o r our meetings. This time we had Margaret
the Frontier Nursing Fund. These will net Amon ( 9 '18) and Anne White ( 6 ' 1 8 ) ;
about fifty dollars f o r this year's contribu- Ethel Packard Harkness ( r '22) ; Margaret
tion; not our f u l l quota; since we have been Burton Harter ( I '27), and Dorothy Dickinson
assessed on our entire potential membership, Daniel ( I '25) ; and Helen Wallen ( T ) , who
'it is a difficult proposition f o r the smaller is the dietitian at the Massachusetts General
active group to raise the whole of the fund. Hospital and lives on Beacon H i l l . The Delta
You, Delta alumna?, who may not live near Alumnae included Edna Woodbury Webb
enough to Boston to be an active member, do ('12), Leslie Hooper Macmillan ('14), Ann-
send your contribution to Margaret Amon ette MacKnight Harvey ('14), "Betty" Morris
who, with "Millie" Eldredge, has done so ('33), "Dot" Hilton Downs ('23). Blanche
much to make our assessment reach its total. Hooper ('04), Louise Atwood ('97), Gene-
vieve Fosdick Sanborn ('10), Octavia Chapin
On the iciest day known to Boston and one ('13). Lorea Jameson ('21), Olive MacPher-
of the many below zero days we have endured son ('32), Mildred Simpson Gersumky ('17),
this winter, the Annual Meeting took place at Dorothy Bartlett Buck ('13), Dorris Morse
Blanche Hooper's ('04) at T u f t s College, with ('17), Margaret Fessendcn Henderson ('15),
Blanche and Polly Lambert ('00) as hostesses, "Millie" Ward Eldrege ('25), Gladys Bryant
assisted by Fran and Mary Heald. Despite Moore ('22), Eva Fulton Mellish ("06), Fran
the weather, twenty were there to enjoy Heald ('30), and Mary Heald ('22).
Polly's delicious culinary creations and to stay
after f o r a talk fest with Monica Pipe ('01),
Ethel Davis ('00), and Polly as the leaders.

At the meeting Margaret Amon ( 0 '18) Chicago North Shore Alumna? Give
reported on the returns from the bridges, and Travelogue Dinner
f r o m the cards she had sent out f o r the
Frontier Nursing Fund. After this followed By Ruth Ashcraft, P
the discussion concerning the changing of the
territorial boundaries of Boston Alumnae MORE T H A N ONE hundred alumnae and ac-
Chapter. I t was decided that the active chap-
ter radius should include those towns and tives celebrated AOII's thirty-sixth anni-
cities within a twenty mile radius of Boston. versary at the annual Founders' Day banquet,
This new territory limitation does not prevent December 8, at the chapter house. As will be
any Alpha 0 living outside the area f r o m recalled, the sorority was founded January 2,
being eligible to membership, but it does re- 1897, at Barnard College, but because the date