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married in the near future. Her home will be not far from Seattle
for her to come to our meetings regularly but we hope to see her at
least occasionally. We shall all miss her.

Greetings and best wishes to all from Puget Sound Alumna;.

CORNELIA J E N N E R , President.

K N O X V I L L E ALUMNAE

Since the report of our installation the history of the chapter has
been little more than the history of a Red Cross unit, and as each of
you doubtless belongs to one it is an old story. This was unusually
pleasant and I am glad to say we really accomplished something. By
the middle of December we turned i n the outfit for one patient, to
be shipped with the New Year's shipment. A t present our plans
for more work are not complete. There has been some discussion of
buying a bolt of gingham and making two sizes of aprons for the
French orphans. Nothing definite has been decided yet, but we are
all doing other work and knitting, and while we sit by the fire and
knit we plan.

A sketch of one of our meetings with scraps of conversation will
give the news and be typical of all the meetings.

Lucretia's house, one-thirty; promptly Emma Hunt arrives, opens
the front door quietly and says, "Is Billy asleep?" Then—"Phew,
I left 'Petie Lamb' aggrieved because I could not take her to the
church to make trench candles. I have been making her a dress for
the dancing school soiree and I worked all morning fixing vegetables
at the Friendly Rooms." Next Blossom arrives. "Oh I had a lovely
time at home; went to Houston and Galveston for a few days. Yes,
I stayed the month out but wasn't I glad to get back! Did you take
care of Clarence while I was gone?" Then they d r i f t in, and this
is what you hear: "Wonder what time Alice Hayes will get here."
"Guess those girls who teach won't come at a l l . " "Hello, Ailcey."

Did you all know Ailcey is going to live here now? Mr. Peet is
going in business here." "Laura Swift is coming home for a visit."
'I heard from Myrtle Cunningham. She said about all she could do
was to keep her boys warm and fed this weather. She has been
working so hard in charge of a knitting unit. She told me that
Mary Rust is nursing on a hospital ship at Halifax, helping with
the relief work." "Has anybody heard from Roberta?" "Nobody
but Billy Bickley, her god-son. He has had a lively correspondence
with her." "Good gracious, you have this yoke basted on wrong.
How many of these shirts do we have to make?" "That bathrobe
« simply beautiful." "Ada Donaldson Montgomery (Kappa) is
coming back here to live. She is quite sick i n the hospital now.