Before You Read THE LYRE Your Lyre- of THIS IS our third attempt to write up The Golden Jubilee Con- ALPHA CHI OMEGA vention. The first two were for publication in magazines where, it is hoped, many of our contem- poraries and outside friends Theodora Maltbie Collins, Editor glanced at them. At the time we thought these more or less formal Vol. 39 No. 1 résumés were rather difficult to do. Now with the great desire of intimately picturing to our own November, 1935 interested members, the second most important event in our his- tory (the founding of A X S, of CONTENTS course, was the first) the feeling Frontispiece of deepest inadequacy is over- The Golden Jubilee Convention 3 whelming. We even approached the title with an awareness that Up-to-date Olympian List 26 use of its second word might get Message from Our National President 27 us nationally criticized in these days when gold is only supposed Two Council Members Resign 28 to be in the keeping of the U.S. New Council Members 29 government. But duty is duty and the job of chronicling events in Familiar Faces on Our Council 32 our fraternity history must go on Report of Fellowship Committee 35 no matter how far short we fall in ability. So we have marshalled World Mourns George Banta, Senior 36 our forces with the treasured cos- Vice-President's Letter to Alumnae 37 tume party pictures well in the lead and herewith present them to Our Progressive Alumnae 38 you realizing well that the parade Panhellenic Page 47 is meager in comparison to the wonderful feature it attempts to Honorary Actives 48 portray. Announcements and Comments 52 The resignations of Ethel Mead Van Auken as President and of Things You Might Miss 54 Thelma Ritter Wemyss-Smith as Pledge List 55 Counsellor were reluctantly ac- cepted at convention. This action Exchanges 60 as well as the newly created office Chapter Letters 63 of second Counsellor has caused three new faces to appear on our Marriages 95 National Council personnel pre- Births 98 sented in this number. Since our November issue an- In Memoriam 100 nually deals with the alumnae Fraternity Directory 101 groups we have endeavored to give an aggregate picture of the spectacular growth of this "back- bone of the fraternity." The actives too, merit com- Entered as second-class matter May 19, 1913, at the postoffice mendation and the remarkable at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3, 1897. showing of new Phi Beta Kappa Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for and Mortar Board members as in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, 1918. well as the substantial pledge lists Subscription price per year $2.00, payable in advance. Per speak for them. copy, 50 cents. It is regretted that ten of our THE LYRE is published in January, April, June, and Novem- chapters are not represented in the ber, by the George Banta Publishing Company, at 450-458 alumnae letter section. Perhaps the Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. All matters for publica- tion should be in the hands of the editor by the fifteenth of delinquent editors will remedy September, the fifteenth of November, the thirty-first of Janu- this in the January issue. ary, and the first of April. T.M.C.