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that next year it will be sent out much earlier. Mildred Loring and
Ruth Lusby were appointed delegates to city Panhellenic in which
we plan to take an active part hereafter. Our meetings in the future
will be held the second Saturday of each month, the April meeting
at the home of Mildred Loring in the university district, the May
meeting at the home of our newly married sister, Helen Brewster
Buzard, across Lake Washington, and our June meeting with the
Krauses at their home on the Sound, where we have had so many
good times. I f there are any of our sisters in Seattle of whom we
have not heard, please communicate with one of us, for we would
love to have you meet with us. We enjoyed meeting Gladys Kaye at
the house the other evening and hope she will come to our next
meeting.
CORNELIA JENNER, President.
LYNCHBURG ALUMNiE
Maybe some of you (we flatter ourselves by thinking some missed
hearing from us in the last To DRAGMA) have likened us to the seed
that springing up among thorns for lack of life endured but a while
and then died away. Giving ourselves the benefit of the doubt, we
have decided our last letter To DRAGMA found its way to the Dead
Letter Office instead of to the waste basket at Mary Ellen Chase's
headquarters. Be that as it may, we feel even more alive and active
than when we were last heard f r o m ; for Elizabeth Bryan Williams is
back in Lynchburg for keeps, her husband, Major S. H . Williams,
having been dismissed from service some time ago. Clara Cleland
is back from Reuniman, and Clara Smith has added quite consid-
erably to our assets in giving us an honorary member, her husband,
Ran Coleman. They were married on February 27th and are now
living with Clara's parents. We haven't heard either of them de-
clare yet, "It's the most wonderful thing in the world to be mar-
ried." But there's a smile that says all of that and more and we
doubt not that they think they're the happiest folks that ever yet were
wed. The chapter met with Clara in March. Liza Wallis, Kappa,
ex-'19, was present. Full of enthusiasm mixed with good sense and
judgment, Liza was like a breath of fresh air to us. We wish she
lived nearer and could visit us oftener.
We have been very fortunate in the past month in having so many
Kappa alumna back for visits and stop-overs. For pledge day on
March 1st Augusta Stacy, Fanny Butterfield, Margaret Vaughan,
Helen Scott, and Hilda Gleaves were all back. Right royally did
we banquet that night—Kappa twenty strong with seven new
pledges of that afternoon, seven Lynchburg alumnae, and the five
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girls named above—thirty-nine of us in all. I t was a glorious occa-
sion, one that drew us all closer together and made us more deter-
mined than ever to live nearer the ideals of our motto.
With the coming of spring we think of convention, not without
regret that circumstances have again prevented us the honor of enter-
taining the Alpha Os in Virginia. It's a dream we have cherished
for years and it's hard to see it again lost to us through circum-
stances over which we had no control. May none of you say like
Abe Martin, "What's become of the ole' time Virginia hospitality?"
Some day we will show you, when things become a Little better ad-
justed after all the shake up of the past two years. We congratulate
Theta on the honor and feel sure she will do herself proud at con-
vention time.
We wish for each student Alpha O a happy issue from final exami-
nations and a successful close to what has been a most interrupted
session.
Fraternally,
N A N ATKINSON CRADDOCK.
WASHINGTON ALUMN2E
The Washington Alumna? Chapter is certainly very happy to be
able to greet her older sisters for the first time and to tell them how
proud she is to be a full-fledged member of the Alpha O family. We
do wish so very much that you all could have been with us that
memorable evening of January 9th, when Miss Henry came down
from New York to install us.
The installation and banquet which preceded it took place at the
Shoreham Hotel in the room where President Wilson had his first
dinner with his first cabinet. The twelve charter members who
gathered around the banquet table had all come to Washington for
war work and represented ten different chapters of Alpha 0 . The
toasts took the form of informal talks in which the girls told of the
aims and work of each of the chapters represented and our banquet
ended with a toast to A O I I by Miss Henry. Then came the installa-
tion, which was made all the more impressive by the wonderful spirit
of the installing officer, the strength of whose personality made a
lasting impression upon all of us there.
After a business meeting, at which officers were elected and plans
made for our chapter work, we went home, each one filled with a
burning desire to make the Washington Alumnae Chapter worthy of
her noble birthplace and of the beloved order whose name she bears.
Since our installation the number of our members has increased to
thirty, and although the demobilization of a number of branches of