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 the government service will mean the loss of a number of our mem-                                         ALUMNAE NOTES
 bers, we feel confident that enough of our splendid girls will be left
 to put our chapter on a sound running basis.                                                                                     SIGMA

                                  Fraternally yours,                                                                                      GENERAL
                                               REBECCA B. L A M A R , Chapter Editor.
                                                                                          Margaret Weeks Ball (Mrs. Charles) is again living at Stockton,
                            PHILADELPHIA ALUMNA
                                                                                       Cal.
     Maybe you have only seen our names in the long ago freshman                          Virginia Judy Esterly (Mrs. Ward B.) has taken a house at
 lists and then maybe later on in those chapter reports you may have
 seen us in our caps and gowns or again found our names in print,                      Colusa, Cal., for four or five months.
 this time in the senior list. A t least sometime, somewhere, and some-                   Martha Rice Furlong (Mrs. Herbert W.) expects her husband
 how you have heard of us before because individually we are Alpha
 O's. Collectively we are Alpha O's from whom you have never                           home shortly. Mr. Furlong has served during the war as business
 before heard through T o DRAGMA. From Kappa, Gamma, Delta,                            manager of the F i f t h Federal District, with headquarters at Nash-
 Epsilon, Chi, and Psi we have come together to form the Philadel-                     ville, Tenn. Mrs. Furlong is teaching history at Miss Ransome's
phia Alumnae Chapter of Alpha O. We number fourteen. Thirteen                          School for Girls in Piedmont.
of us are active members and one an associate member.
                                                                                          Wynne Meredith Harlowe (Mrs. George) is living at Alameda,
    Katherine Thomas (Mrs. S. J.), ex-'12, and Genevieve Glasgow,
ex-'19, are from our southernmost chapter. Kappa. And then from                        Cal.
Maine we have Rachel H a l l (Mrs. P. M . ) , '15, Gamma. Delta
is represented by Helen Browne (Mrs. M . M . ) , '09, and Gladys                          Bernice Hubbard has been elected to membership in Phi Beta
Wales (Mrs. W. L . ) , '09. Gladys Wales is an associate member.
Patty Loeffler is all alone from Epsilon, but there are several Epsi-                  Kappa.
lon '19s living in Philadelphia, so we feel sure that before we are                       Elaine Standish Massie (Mrs. Andrew M . ) is expected to visit
much older we can claim a few more from Cornell for our Philadel-
phia Alumna? Chapter. Of her "Philadelphia and Vicinity" gradu-                        her mother in Berkeley this spring.
ates Chi has sent us Helen Schrack, '17, and Edith Gardner, '13.                          Gertrude Schieck is private secretary for a large estate with
From Psi there are Beatrice Barrington, '16, Violet Abbott, '17,
Cecelia Gerson, '17, Evelyn Harris Jefferies (Mrs. L . ) , ex-'18, Avis                offices in San Francisco.
Hunter, '18, and Virginia Kerns, ex-'21.                                                  Isabelle Henderson Stewart (Mrs. B. F., Jr.) is acting as hostess

   Miss Henry installed our chapter on February 8. Following our                       at the Y. W. C. A. in San Francisco.
chapter installation, Psi had her freshman initiation. And then                           Jennett Miller Swartz (Mrs. Burton) is visiting in Oakland, where
after everything was all over the alumna; and active chapters had
their banquet together.                                                                she expects to live when her husband is discharged from the army.
                                                                                       She received word the last of March that he had sailed from France
   As a chapter we are not in f u l l working order yet, but we have                   on the way home.
accomplished much in the month since we were installed. I n a very
short time we are going to be sailing along at top knot speed.                            Ruth Carson Yuill (Mrs. Peter) sailed with her husband for
                                                                                       Honolulu, on a business trip, the middle of February.
                                                          Avis HUNTER, President.
                                                                                                                                      ENGAGEMENTS

                                                                                          Dorothy Clarke has announced her engagement to First Lieut.
                                                                                       Frederick Cecil Mills. Lieutenant Mills graduated from the Univer-
                                                                                       sity of California in 1914, and was elected to membership in Phi
                                                                                       Beta Kappa. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Columbia in 1917,
                                                                                       was made second lieutenant at Plattsburg, and left for France i n
                                                                                       September, 1917. He is at present in England studying at one of
                                                                                       the universities. He expects to be sent home in July and next year
                                                                                       will teach economics at some eastern university. They will be
                                                                                       married the last of July.

                                                                                                                                         MARRIAGES

                                                                                          Blanche Ahlers was married February 18th to Terry Wilson Ward,
                                                                                       an attorney of Merced, Cal. They are living at Merced.
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