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TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC WORK

AF T E R TWO YEARS o f established national philanthropic work,
we find that we have received $1,65373 i n contributions and
commissions f r o m chapters, individuals and the Executive Com-
mittee. Although announcements of our use of this money have
been made from time to time, perhaps i t may be wise to repeat
that $250.00 was given to Seattle Alumnae Chapter to name a
bed i n the Orthopedic Hospital for one year. Delegates to con-
vention f r o m Seattle and Upsilon told us of the attractive little
girl who has been i n the bed f o r most of the time it has been in
our name and of the interest taken in her by the girls. I n memory
of our beloved Lillian McCausland, who was so deeply interested
in all philanthropy, we gave $500.00 to Providence Alumnae Chap-
ter to furnish a children's ward in the Rhode Island Homeopathic
Hospital. Helen Rose tells me that the room is most attractive
and greatly appreciated.

A t present the only piece of work planned is a memorial to
Mary D . Houston Sarratt, for which the N u Omicron and Nash-
ville girls are working. W e believe that i n the next two years
our fund will be larger than f o r the biennium just ended and
hope that chapters interested in aiding the handicapped, but lack-
ing funds f o r some definite project, will apply to the National
W o r k Committee. I t is provided that local units may bear the
name of any deceased member of Alpha Omicron Pi, so that the
names of our loved members may live.

Convention established a new graduate fellowship o f $300.00,
making two f o r our disposal, one to go to a woman not a member
of Alpha Omicron P i , the other f o r the use of our own girls.
The former will be known simply as the Alpha Omicron Pi Fel-
lowship, that to our own member as the Alpha Omicron Pi Fel-
lowship given in memory of Ruth Capen Farmer.

A l l who were at Convention and many others, know the A. O.
Pisette, the only newspaper in existence whose whole issue was
subscribed for. So successful was i t that it made a profit of
$81.60, which Betty Bond turned over to the National W o r k Com-
mittee at the banquet. Somehow that seemed a fitting climax to
the spirit of the convention hostesses. Minneapolis Alumnae and
Tau had worked long and hard to make the convention a success.
Not content with that, the alumnae chapter gave to our philan-