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Bur outlook. Each alumna was asked to say tier Nursing under arms, in fact just any mo-
t>mcthing. Those speaking included Emily ment an AOII meets another AOII there is
f a r b e l l , who told us Alice Coulter had sent likely to be conversation that sounds as i f
^ l e r "Hello" in the f o r m of a check f o r twen- there might be cropping out an understanding
ftr-fivc dollars, Frances Meisse, Epsilon, Grace of this little matter of national philanthropic
IQbcrlander, Thelma Vinal, Florimel Jones, work.

Mora King, Ruth Boltwood, Mary Sutcliff,
(Elizabeth Brown, Lois Haskins, Lucille Dewitt Washington Alumnae Sponsor Plays
b i d Elizabeth Spaulding. The evening con-
Mudcd with the Lucille Dewitt announcing her By Jane H. Scu'ly, A T

engagement to Millard Brink. • + • T H E W A S H I N G T O N CHAPTER has been busy

[ The Syracuse Alumna; extend their sympa- with benefits to raise money f o r its Na-
t h y to Anna and Veronica Kallfelz on the tional Work quota. On March 1 we spon-
lideath of their father. sored three one-act plays which were produced
and directed by Betty McCall Roberts ( I I A ) ,
and we hope to raise an additional sum by a
Tulsa Alumnae Learn the Facts dance at the Hay-Adams House on April 28.
About F . N . S. Since this is our first dance in some time it
should be a success both socially and financial-
By Katherine De Buy, S ly. The annual W a s h i n g t o n Panhellenic
luncheon was held at the Mayflower Hotel on
L+. I T HAPPENS in Tulsa when the alumna? of February 10. Mrs. Roosevelt spoke on "Sub-
Alpha Omicron P i has a sixth birthday sistence Farms," one of her ]>et projects.
Mamie H u r t Baskervill ( K ) , and Mary H i g -
anniversary, life gets into an a w f u l tangle of
pie usual done in the unusual. Is not this suf-
ficient proof:
[ Since my last note on December 10 our go- gins Mathews ( N ) were hostesses at two of
ings and comings have gone and come like this the tables and there were over thirty of the
y , . planned spring party f o r husbands and chapters meeting under our banner in the lob-
lescorts, the o c c a s i o n being our first social by. New b o o k l e t s have been sent to each
ttunction of the year . . . there was a book re- member containing the programs f o r the re-
view of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (cel- mainder of the year. The attractive booklets
ebrating the appearance of Katharine Cornell) have helped to increase the interest in the
.and making money f o r the National Philan- meetings and are e x c e l l e n t reminders of
Bropic Work . . . new officers elected, such as what the chapter is doing. A t the January
Edna Mae H i l l , president; Katherine De Puy, meeting Alice Eliot ( H A ) and Lillian Ernest
vice president; Dorothy Frye, secretary; V i r - (IIA) reviewed Clever Country and Nurses
ginia Parks, treasurer; Katherine De Puy, To on Horseback, both especially interesting
EjRAGMA Editor and Historian; and Dorothy because of our work i n Kentucky. I n
J f t y e and Dorothy Kasey, Panhellenic dele- February Mrs. Howe, of the Department of
Bgates . . . a calendar of the year was selected Agriculture, spoke on the Pure Food and
I with the first program to be Citizenship . . . Drug Act now before Congress. She bad post-
i o n April 38 a Panhellenic Bridge and Style ers and pictures with which to illustrate her
tShop is scheduled, and Dorothy Kasey is to talk and i t was very interesting and valuable.
\ be the dashing model . . . Of course we made The following officers f o r 1934-35 were elected
l a dab of money by selling magazines and the at the February meeting and installed at the
•best coathangers in our closets (now our formal meeting at the P i Delta Chapter house
clothes get snagged on the rusty remainder, at the March meeting: president, Ruth Miles
but we swear and go blithely on) . . . we've
met on street corners and curbs, at Dorothy ( H A ) ; vice president, Mildred Kettler (HA) ;
Frye's, at Katherine De Puy's, at Elizabeth treasurer, Rosalie G o o d h a r t (HA) ; corre-
Elgin's and Stella Fortier's. sponding secretary, Dorothy Simpson (HA) ;
recording secretary, Frances Garratt (NK) ;
And we haven't been as stupid as we sound. historian and editor to To DRACMA, Jane
Not half. Once this spring we almost made Scully (AT); Panhellenic delegate, Emily
history i n the chapter by this decision: it was Mitchell ( K ) ; alternate, Marian Bates Dan-
this way, the Philanthropic Chairman was ab- iels (HA) ; social chairmen, Margaret Cooke
sent (she should have known better) and at (ITA) and Vivian Logue Seymour ( 0 ) .
the session i t was voted to give up all local
charity and concentrate on national philan- Dorothy Claflin (HA '33) was married on
thropy. O f course that meant the Frontier March 31 to Harold Robinson (*A0, Mary-
Nursing. That was all right, but few in the land '32). Norma Person (HA '33) was mar-
chapter had the slightest idea of what or ried i n Brooklyn, New York, on March 31 to
where or when or whatsoever the Frontier Donald Shook (6X, Maryland '27). They are
Nursing might be. Thereupon the Philan- living in Washington. Kinkead Young (HA
thropic Chairman gritted her teeth in revenge '33) has announced her engagement to Donald
and in accord with the adoption of education- Voshall (*2K, Maryland '33).

al programs f o r the year, she ferreted out Westchester Alumna; Give Covered
everything on the subject and at the next ses- Dish Luncheon
sion she doled out the material. Now Alpha
O in Tulsa goes to sleep with Frontier Nurs-
ing on the chest. AOII's go i n and out of By Helen Pierce Munro, T
shops and teas, offices and schools with Fron-
•+- O U R JANUARY MEETING was held at the

home of Matilda Petri Olrich ( X ) at Tar-