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comes so close to the holidays the event is
always celebrated December 8, the birthday of
Stella George Stern Perry, first president.
This year's event was particularly note-
worthy to P, which will observe its twenty-
fifth anniversary in June.
Gretchcn Baarsch was in charge of the pleas-
ant program of the evening. Alice Thomson
of A chapter read messages f r o m members
unable to attend the affair. Because Kay Bach
Keller, representative of the Chicago alumnae,
was unable to be present, Grctchen substituted
to make remarks as the president of the North
Shore alumna?. Mae Norton spoke briefly as
president of P's pledge class and Virginia
Speirs^.president of the active chapter, extend- the Plaisance Hotel on April 7. So far, we
ed greetings.
Dorothy Duncan ('25) of Wilmette, State
chairman of Alumna:, gave the principal mes-
sage of the evening, "The Challenge of Today
to Fraternities and Sororities."
Talks on the four Founders were made by
Merva Dolson Hennings ('10), first president
of P, Phyllis Gamphcr ('32), Jane Hupman
('34), and Marion Abele Franco-Ferreira
('17). Helen Hawk Carlisle closed the meet-
ing with a short talk.
I t is interesting to note that approximately
two hundred AOII's celebrated Founders' Day
in Chicago, including the west, south and
north side groups.
Our January meeting was a travelogue din-
ner at Carol Anger's in Chicago. Dorothy
Duncan gave a talk on "Going to Europe" and
Mary Dee Drummond entertained with " A
Swede's Travel in the United States."
North Shore Alumnx of AOII had their
annual ritual dinner and meeting at the chap-
ter house in March. A goodly number of the
local alumnae had dinner with the chapter, after
which the ceremonies took place.
Chicago South Shore Alumnae Give
Benefit Bridge
By Helen Snoddy Stevens, B<P
- f - O U R JANUARY MEETING was held at Lucre-
tia Adomeit's home, Jane Schoening and
Helen Stevens assisting. Plans were made
for another bridge tournament which was such
a success both financially and socially last
year: the parties to lie divided into two
groups—one an afternoon group, the other
an evening group, whereby the husbands are
also being put to work f o r A O I I . The latter joy the distinction of a membership in the Mt.
group, according to the previous year, could
always report of a husbands' party that had
just been given or one that was about to take
place, and each time there was a profit to be
added to the fund.
Maude Nolte entertained us at her home in
February, assisted by Jerry Hobbs and Janet
Weissmiller. Vera Kiebel, who is a real en-
thusiast on the Clothesline Committee, sug-
gested that we start sewing on doll clothes at
our meetings, in order to avoid the rush next
fall, and at the same time we would be able
to send more dolls to Kentucky f o r Christ-
mas. We were glad to welcome Betty
Brooks ( 0 '33) as a new member.
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In March we met at the home of T a n e t
Weissmiller, assisted by Helen Laycock and
Edna Kline. The president made a check of
potential members on our chapter roll and
each one present supported the discussion of
ways to develop new interests to get more
members to our meetings. The nominating
committee presented a list of nominees for
office, all of whom were unanimously elected
The new officers are as follows: president
Lucille Brown; vice president, Helen Erskine'
corresponding secretary, Helen Stevens; re-
cording secretary, Marion Smith; Helen
Brown is again treasurer; To DRACMA editor
Edna Kline.
The annual benefit bridge party was held at
have realized a profit of approximately $35.
Helen Stevens, chairman, with Vera Riebel
Janet Weissmiller, Helen Erskine and Helen
Wahl on her committee. A generous supply
of home-made candy was donated f o r our
guests. Lucretia Adomeit baked and donated
a delicious chocolate angel food cake which
was raffled at the party by Mary Alice Ford.
The proceeds were most gratifying.
As this is mailed we are notified that the
April meeting will be at the home of Lucille
Brown, our new president. We are looking
forward to it, f o r we shall have ritual, as well
as installation of officers.
We offer congratulations to Mary Alice and
Kenneth Ford, whose son, James Arthur, was
born on February 3. Our sympathy goes to
the family of Isabella Stone ( E ) , whose death
occurred on March 21.
Cincinnati Alumnae Interested in
Women's Crusade
By Frances Morris Elliott, 0 H
-4- FRANCES IVDTS R I C H ( n ) is chairman of
the Business Women's Division of the
Women's Crusade in Cincinnati. This move-
ment was organized to educate the public in
regard to social agencies of the city and works
in conjunction with the Community Chest.
Cincinnati was given a national award for the
best education in social work on the basis of
the Women's Crusade. Mrs. Roosevelt has
recommended this movement to other cities of
the nation. W i t h this work, Frances is not
too busy to serve on the Board and the Execu-
tive Committee of the Y.W.C.A. and to en-
Auburn Literary Club.
The March meeting of the Cincinnati
Alumna: Chapter was held in the University
Y. M . C. A . with Leafy Jane Hilker (O)
and Bcrnadette Murphy ( 0 ) , as hostesses. The
following officers were elected to serve the
coming year: Virginia Nolloth, president;
Leafy Jane Hilker, vice president; Dorothy
Kratzer, secretary; Bernadette Murphy, treas-
utvr; I'"ranees Klliott, historian and editor to
To DRACMA. Preceding the business meet-
ing, a program given by the pledges was en-
joyed and appreciated.
Members of the Cincinnati Alumnae Chapter
enjoyed the visit made by Mary Dee Drum-