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winter, working on her master's degree. She has been an earnest worker
and we will miss her. Adelaide Gladden is going to a library school in
St. Louis. Elise Keebler, Shirley Lake, and Lida Belle Goyer have been
away on summer trips.

We made some plans in the spring, however, that we hope to carry
out when we assemble in the fall. After investigating the various
charitable institutions in town we decided to help the Calvary Day Nur-
sery. Working mothers may leave their children there f o r ten cents
a day. I n May we gave these kiddies a festival and we are going to adopt
one f o r our own.

The girls from the active chapters who are here for the summer have
been doing a fine bit of rushing. They got a list of all the girls in town
who graduated from high and prep schools; they called each of these
and asked i f she were going to College. They immediately offered to help
all the college prospects in any way possible. Thus they scored a point
with all AOIT material and did no harm by lending a helping hand to the
others.

We are quite enthusiastic ever Southwestern University, which opens
here in the fall. Several AOITs f r o m other schools are changing to it.
We hope to have some big plans SOOP.

SADIE RICE RAMSEY.

MIAMI VALLEY

Next door, at Mother Clark's, Big Scotty is thumping away at the
notes for Omega alumnae, and while the spirit is in the air, we too shall
write.

How to summon the details of our April meeting on such a hot night
as this, I no not know. I t was such a glorious warm spring day in April,
when Ada Wilson had us down at her home in Hamilton, and served such
delightfully coolish things to eat, that it is hard to write comfortably about
it all now. There, among many other things, we elected officers. Esther
Fowler Schmalz was elected president, and Mary Heck is our vice presi-
dent. ( T o our great sorrow, however, we have learned since that Esther
is leaving" our Valley for Ann Arbor.) Scotty, too, announced at this
meeting that she would not be with us for the next year. How we shall
miss these two props! (Perhaps they may think we could have selected
a more pleasing word than props.)

Our Commencement meeting in O x f o r d with Mildred Dennison was
well attended. We had an "at home" f o r all A O H s who were back, there-
fore, we had no formal meeting whatever. This was the first meeting
which Leafy Jane had missed—and we are hoping that that small person
Peter will let his mother come to all meetings in the future, for we have
come to feel that she is indispensable in our affairs. I f the alumnae only
knew how much we all appreciated their letters which they had written in
for the meeting, they would feel repaid. We attended Frances McNutt's
wedding in spirit (she was married that very afternoon, you know) when
we read her letter giving all the vital details; and we vowed to read all
New Perfection Oil Stove ads henceforth after hearing Lucile Dvorak's
proud letter announcing that she was copy writer for the above mentioned
N . P. O. Grilles: we also hearkened with great interest to Martha Jane
Hitchner's tale of the Mothers' Pension as she knows it in Philadelphia.

Please remember that the next meeting is in Oxford at homecoming.
This meeting will be for all alumnae of AOn, with the Miami Valley girls
as hostesses.

(No letter.) BOZEMAN