Before You Read Your Lyre- THE LYRE In this modern age of slim, trim lines and budgets, it seems ap- palling to have to admit that in of spite of the most rigid attempt at reducing this issue has gained ALPHA CHI OMEGA sixteen pages! Even more distressing is the fact that there are approximately Theodora Maltbie Collins, Editor eighteen more pages all set up, that simply had to be left out. Vol. 40 No. 3 They include an article on The Lincoln Cathedral Choir, the list of Olympians, "The Bucking April, 1937 Bronc," some Interesting Alpha Chis, "Alpha Epsilon Alpha's CONTENTS Scholarship Girl," and a new de- Going to the Sun Mountain, Glacier National Park 98 partment of Book Reviews. Therefore the June number will Convention present these in addition to more Temptation 99 news of convention, the delegates Invitation 100 Transportation 102 pictures, active chapter honor winners, Eklekta articles and Taxation 104 Notation 106 many other special features. Reservation 107 We hoped for a hundred per The Song of the Lyre 108 cent representation in the chap- ter letters for this issue since there Our Founders to Be Convention Guests 109 will be no more of them until Post-Convention Trips 109 the November issue. However if Installation of Beta Omicron Chapter and Florida State Meeting 110 that ideal had been attained the Outstanding at Florida Southern 111 work of deleting would have been We Present Alpha Sigma Alpha 112 even greater so we trust that you will not be too disappointed if you Alpha Chi Mothers and Daughters 113 find that your own chapter letter Book Reviews by Alpha Chis 115 was not received. Gentleman, Scholar, and Important Dad 116 Plans for our "Houseparty" Another Record 116 The Housemother 117 convention at Glacier Park are well under way and as definite Alpha Chi Omega Chaperons 118 Mothers' Clubs 120 information as it is possible to A x Observations 122 give at this time is included in the first pages of this issue. Hazel E. Eckhart, Historian 124 You will also find the news of Mrs. Wadley Revises the Songbook 124 Announcements and Comments 127 the installation of our Beta Omi- Chapter Letters 128 cron chapter in the "sunny south" Alumnx Chapters 172 and of the forty-first alumnae Alumnae Clubs 179 chapter. Then too, Alpha Chi Mothers Marriages 184 Births 186 and Daughters as well as Moth- ers' Clubs and those important In Memoriam 189 Our Calendar 190 active chapter mothers, the chap- erons, are all featured herein. Fraternity Directory 191 We apologize for a mis-state- ment in the November number. Mrs. Reitz did not revise the Pledge Handbook as stated in Entered as second-class matter May 19, 1913, at the postoffice Announcements and Comments. at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for The work was done by Miss Ger- in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, trude Babcock, Beta, to whom 1918. Alpha Chi Omega is indeed grate- Subscription price per year $2.00, payable in advance. Per ful. copy, 50 cents. Three missing sections, Ex- THE LYRE is published in January, April, June, and Novem- changes, Things You Might Miss ber, by the George Banta Publishing Company, at 450-458 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. All matters for publica- and Poems by Alpha Chis will be tion should be in the hands of the editor by the fifteenth of resumed in the June LYRE which September, the fifteenth of November, the thirty-first of Janu- we hope will prove to have re- ary, and the first of April. turned to the normal ninety-six pages. T.M.C.