Before You Read Your Lyre- THE LYRE It is with a great deal of pleas- ure we announce that the next of issue of this magazine will be a Directory Number which will be ALPHA CHI OMEGA in the mails very early in the new year. All LYRE subscribers will re- ceive a copy and it has been sug- Theodora Maltbie Collins, Editor gested that everyone should make a resolution to get in touch with Vol. 40 No. 1 those from whom they have not heard for so long. November, 1936 Think of being able to find all those longed for addresses by sim- ply turning the pages of a small CONTENTS sized LYRE! Frontispiece 2 In this issue we give you up Listen!!! 3 to date news of our Alumnae The Fourth Estate 4 Organizations, prepared by our Tune in on Some of Our Alumnae 7 National Vice-President, Mrs. National Committee Chairmen 10 Crosby. Then, too, the alumnx Practical Ideals of Alpha Chi Omega 12 letters and statistics occupy many Alpha Chi Omega: The First Fifty Years 13 A Visit to the MacDowell Colony 14 pages and Interesting Alpha Chis Interesting Alpha Chis 15 in abundance, are pictured and Alpha Chi Observations 21 written up. Mary Elizabeth Stanford Guest of Oak Park Alumna Since the April number will be Group 34 the next regular issue of the LYRE, As Up and Down the World You Go 35 many important announcements "Ship of Desert" Has Her Seasick 37 have been included in the section Poems of Alpha Chis 38 Announcements and Comments 40 devoted to that. You'll want to Exchanges 42 know about the new chapter and Chapter Letters 43 about the three fellowships ex- Marriages 78 plained, therein. Births 82 Most unusual is the "As Up In Memoriam 84 and Down the World" depart- Things You Might Miss 85 Our Calendar 86 ment which has just returned after Fraternity Directory 87 LWO years absence, bringing news of our members in foreign coun- tries. Entered as second-class matter May 19, 1913, at the postoffice May we wish for all our read- at Menasha. Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for ers, an extremely early but never in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, the less most sincere Merry Christ- 1918. Subscription price per year $2.00, payable in advance. Per mas and Happy New Year. And copy, 50 cents. remember we are looking forward THE LYRE is published in January, April, June, and Novem- ber, by the George Banta Publishing Company, at 450-458 to meeting you June 28 to July 3, Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. All matters for publica- tion should be in the hands of the editor by the fifteenth of 1937 in Glacier National Park for September, the fifteenth of November, the thirty-first of Janu- ary, and the first of April. a restful and enjoyable convention. T.M.C.