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LYNCHBURG

The usual scattering of our members f o r the summer months was more
complete than usual this year. As many are still away and we have had
no meetings since June, I am afraid that the "interesting and informal
account of the activities of the chapter" which the editor's directions
demand that this letter should be, will not be up to its usual high level of
gossip and rhetoric!

But do not blame the chapter editor for the poverty of this letter,
because in her absence the president of the chapter, wary of fines, is sending
this contribution. I f the editor has also sent in a letter, this will be sup-
pressed and the world will be none the wiser as to what it has missed!

A f t e r all this introduction, what news I have been able to gather will
follow.

First and most exciting, Katherine Hodges was married in June to
Holcolm Adams of Lynchburg, and after a wedding trip, touring the
country in their car, they are at home in a charming apartment on War-
wick Lane.

A t this time of the year we always take census of who will belong to
the chapter next winter. We are very sorry to lose Llewlyn Johnson, who
has been a great addition during the three years she has been teaching at
Lynchburg College. She has accepted a position elsewhere and we will
miss her very much.

To fill the vacancy she leaves, we are lucky enough to have Bessie
M inor Davis of Lynchburg, who taught last winter in Pulaski and will
have a position in the public schools here this year. We welcome her as
one who is sure to be an interested and valuable member.

Frances Allen, who has been sick all the year and unable to take any
active part in chapter work, we regret to say is still not recovered and
has been in Richmond all summer f o r treatment. We hope most sincerely
she will soon be well enough to be home again.

Lily Blanks Clarke Stokes was quite i l l this summer too, with typhoid
fever, but she is entirely recovered now and her constant indoor sport is
standing before the mirror with an expression of hopeless regret and mut-
tering sadly: "Where are the hairs of yesteryear?"

I modestly keep until last what is, to me at least, most exciting news.
A new house has been absorbing me all summer and I eat, sleep and dream
plans and furnishings! I t will be completed by October, I hope, and one
of the things I look forward to and like most to picture is the December
meeting with all the chapter gathered around my big open fire and tongues
wagging like a flock of blackbirds.

V I R G I N I A STROTHER BLACKWELL.

WASHINGTON

(No Letter)

PHILADELPHIA

The last formal meeting of the season was held at Psi's house in June,
and extensive plans were made f o r the chapter's activities in the fall.
Our president, Stella Wells, reported on a meeting of the new executive
committee where all phases of the work had been fully discussed. She
classed the chapter's interests under four broad headings: meetings, phil-
anthropic work, membership and finance, and appointed committees to per-
fect plans for the coming year.

The executive committee felt that it would be of great value to have
the ideas and suggestions of every Philadelphia Alpha O ; and, as it was