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City for the purpose of organizing a Panhellenic Congress. Annabel
has lived in Oklahoma City since her marriage nearly two years ago.
H E L E N FITZGERALD, Editor. Bechen, who had charge of the meeting, and I took luncheon together
CHICAGO ALUMNffi
The meetings of the Chicago Alumnae Chapter have been excep-
tionally well attended this winter, although we have lost several of
our members of last year. We are regretting especially the loss of
Marie Vick Swanson, who has gone with her husband to Akron,
Ohio, to live.
In December, we had initiation at the home of Alice Kolb, and
took in a number of girls. Our January meeting was held at a
lunchroom down town, but after waiting hours for our soup, we
decided to hold the remainder of our meetings at the homes of mem-
bers. The College Club, where we met last year, was unable to
furnish us a satisfactory room this winter. Merva Hemings had
us out to her new home in north Evanston for the February meeting,
and we enjoyed ourselves as we always do at Merva's. Alumnae and
active chapters both profited when Merva moved to Evanston, because
she is so obliging and willing to let us use her home whenever we
wish. Our next meeting will be with Grace Gilbert, and we will have
a chance to see how much the baby has grown since we saw it last
spring.
Last year we came to the conclusion that our dues were insufficient
to meet our expenses, and so doubled them, and now to our very great
joy we find that we have some fifty or sixty dollars in our usually
depleted treasury, so we are now considering starting some kind of a
scholarship fund. We are leaving the details to a later meeting, and
will not decide definitely on the amount to be placed in the fund
until our last meeting of the year.
Fraternally,
V I V I A N SORELLE W I L L I A M S , Chapter Editor.
PUGET SOUND A L U M N A
Dear Sisters:
Let me introduce to you a new Puget Sound Alumna? for, with
the coming of the new year our chapter seemed to be "born again"
so filled with life and enthusiasm did it become.
It all happened at a rather dismal little meeting at the chapter-
house in November. We had planned on quite a meeting and only
five appeared. We decided then and there that something was
fundamentally wrong and laid plans for future meetings that would
bring back the old spirit of interest and good-fellowship. I will only
try to tell you of the outcome of these plans.
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The December meeting was to be a slumber party at the chapter-
house during the holidays. Then along came the flu; the house was
in quarantine, and five days before the day set for our party Carrie
and made new arrangements. Friday evening found twelve light-
hearted girls dining very informally at one of our cafeterias. (We
had decided that we must either have an informal "good time" or
something worth while, and because of the short time to plan, we
chose the former.) After dinner we all went to the Wilkes, a Seattle
stock company and enjoyed Seven Keys to Baldpate. The evening
was truly a success from Irma and Pat's kisses to the final act of the
play.
A congenial crowd always lends added pleasure to a fine play or
a beautiful opera. I am sure that the nine Alpha O's who heard
// Trovatore at our theater party in January appreciate this more than
ever. The opera was so beautiful and most of the girls had never
heard it before.
At the time of our January meeting Helen Nelthorpe suggested
that we present the house with a dozen napkins and that we meet
with her in February and hem them. We were all delighted with the
suggestion. Irma and Anita hunted through the stores for samples
of linen and prices, visited the chapter-house to find the patterns of
the tablecloths, and finally selected napkins that pleased all of us.
Helen and her mother made such charming hostesses and Mrs.
Nelthorpe did have the best chocolate cookies that anyone could
imagine. We almost finished hemming our dozen without realizing
that we were working. Then Laura laundered them for the birthday.
For now we began to hear of plans for a birthday for the chapter
to be held March 17th. Our napkins were all ready and just the
thing. Mildred Loring had acted as housemother as you probably
remember, and she knew just what the girls had most wished for for
a long time, a floor lamp for the piano. So Mildred was delegated
to collect the money and purchase the present. We all expressed our
ideas very fully at Helen's; and, from it all, materialized a tall
standard surmounted by a shade of pale old rose lined with pale
yellow, just enough to give a golden light, and a band of dull gold
and blue tapestry to match the hangings of the room and old rose
fringe.
We presented the lamp at the party and I really don't know who
was more pleased, the givers or the receivers. From all our praise
of its beauty the active chapter girls must have gained the impression
that we had a very fine opinion of our present.
During the last month a long news letter of the kind which
Florence Semmen Heikel started, has been distributed. We hope