Before You Read Your Lyre- THE LYRE THE January issue just a year ago featured Hobbies and was so well received with many requests of coming in for an encore on it that we are now using the same theme ALPHA CHI OMEGA again. The amount of interesting material received for this section was overwhelming and it has been Theodora Maltbie Collins, Editor most difficult to select the ones which seemed best fitted for pub- Vol. 39 No. 2 lication. If our editorial office had only been nearer to New York we might have induced that city's only newspaper hobby editor to January, 1936 take over the work (see first write-up in this feature) Since many of our members ad- CONTENTS mit that their avocations and their Mount Cannon Frontispiece vocations are the same we are also Hobbies 115 including several articles on In- Interesting Alpha Chis 131 teresting Alpha Chis. Several of A Gold Mine Trouble Shooter 131 these have had to be held over Sarah F. D. Miller, Zeta 132 for the next issue for it does in- Our Nomination to the Hall of Fame 133 Publicity Director of World's Largest Theatre 134 deed appear that practically all Editor of Pan Pipes 135 Alpha Chis are "Interesting." Margaret Cousins, Poet, Editor and Writer 136 Founders' Day was most im- Late Book Reviewed 136 portant with all our groups this Psi's President Wins Valued Cup 137 past Golden Anniversary year and Outstanding on Nebraska Campus 138 the accounts of how it was cele- Twin Treasurers 138 brated were all so similar and so Pioneer Lincoln Village 139 Founders' Day Celebrations 141 enthusiastic that it was decided to Founders' Day 141 use just one. However there was Rho's Silver and Golden Jubilee 142 scarcely a chapter or club which Announcements and Comments 144 did not send in a write-up of how Things You Might Miss 145 they spent October 15, 1935. National Panhellenic Congress 146 The three day meeting of the N.P.C. Committees 148 National Panhellenic Congress at Fraternity Hotels or Fraternity Heritages 149 Poems by Alpha Chis 152 Edgewater Gulf Hotel in Edge- Chapter Letters 153 water Park, Mississippi, early in Marriages 193 December was outstanding in Births 194 spirit, accomplishment and organi- In Memoriam 196 zation. It has been possible to 4-H Members Win Prizes 197 give only a brief résumé of this Our Calendar 198 important event. Fraternity Directory 199 Those of you who were disap- pointed in not finding news of any of your own chapter alumnx in the last issue will probably dis- Entered as second-class matter May 19, 1913, at the postoffice cover much of interest in the chap- at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for ter letters this time. The response in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, from our co-editors has been most 1918. Subscription price per year $2.00, payable in advance. Per gratifying. copy, 50 cents. May the year that lies ahead THE LYRE is published in January, April, June, and Novem- bring larger opportunities, truer ber, by the George Banta Publishing Company, at 450-458 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. All matters for publica- success and richer joys to every tion should be in the hands of the editor by the fifteenth of wearer of the Lyre. September, the fifteenth of November, the thirty-first of Janu- ary, and the first of April. T.M.C.