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· JANUARY 1, 1916·
VOLTTME II
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I1! RLTJ.OJP:CCT T:1e 7ear just closed is YTitllout tloubt the r11ost reu1&rka.'ule one r.· ithin the history of _·_l ·· .ih<~ S.i .-::."lb. .Al·~)ha., ~ or it has v1i tnesse c". JdH~ complete ret!stabl ish.1ae n·~ oi' ·cae 'J orori ty on ._ formdation so firm th ::::.t it cannot fail to stand any test that time may bring. A year £Jgo J~l )ha Sigme. Alpha was merely a union of four groups, v.ri thout specific character. ari.d without any particular interest· one in the rther. ':.'o<~ay t~allh ' group has a clistinctivene.ss all its own, but the National h e.s been welded intcr ·a · stlid organization :)f almost unusual quality and charac·-~~ :;. The cl•se of 1015 showed no change in the length of the Ohapt er Roll, but it did shmi; t)le strong hold Alpha Sigma Jllpha has on its members' for the year has to - its credit the formation of eight alumnae associations, tl1ree in Missouri, two in Ohio, three in Virginia. Tba keen student ef fratern'ity affairs knows that the strength of a Greek-Letter Society may be ve.ry accurately qeasured by t,he evicl.ence tf interest on the part of memb~rs wh.ose student days are ended, · Alpha ·Sigllla Alpha may point with most justifiabl8' pride te its alumria~ asseeiations and may rest ass-ured that thes_e -indicate a far greater deg · ~oe •f strength than weuld be shown by the mere granting of ch~rters to ·'Scho•ls o:r c"lleges. Local societies a.re always eager to be affiliated Pith a National Sorority . of distinction, so it is not especially ore{lftable to be able to add new chapters. A sorority, however, that oan keep its alumnae ACTIVE has not enly solved a problem that has ?UZZled Greek ... Letter societies since their foundation, but . has proved to itself and to all onlookers that it possesses a vital quality s~ldom found. Much of the cre di t for the Barked interest on the part of n 1..r .al umnae is tlue directl;r to the State Jecrotnry S.~rstem inaugu.rnted ~u~in~ 1915 as n purt of our government policies. Not •nl y hnve those in c}d.~:rge of Ir.is souri, Ohio, and Virginio 8ecn.re d tangi ble 1 evit:.eno~ of theLt Ho·rk, hut many others in states . Hhere are no chapters h a v~ c one · ;nlei1C.iC:ly in the r.1a tter ~ f inJ.:;eresting alumn ue thru a s~r s ·cenl • f t; il> Cl'L.· ii i n~ J. e tte i.~s. I : t'.Ch r.C.C. i ·~ ional service h n s ·oe en renC.e re c ".J y ·.;he ·, 1<:::;~, .~ ec.ce ·G..:·. J:ies , ··ho i1r. . ve r.wC.e i't "u:.1e i r ·Jv.S il:..e s s ·.;o E'i l:l. i s ·u ·~ he i n ttr@st Of all Sirla il11 ti~. tOd in the same delaga t1on9 aiJ th~m~~lVlHf ~ A year ago there was consid.erable doubt ns to Vlhether it was going to be possible to publish the t wenty-five Numbers of the PliOimiX set as the goal. Uot only·r1as the management able to bring out the hoped-for Issues but -tt ran over the hundred pages · by bringing out a Jumbo Number at'the alose of the year, the total number of printeJ puges being one hundred twelve, of v;hich six \7ere devoted to a Directory of tbe Soro:Mt,. · Encouraged by the hearty support of mnny alumnae, the Central 0ffioe started publishing Volume II on Sept.erob.er 15th. By the close of t!le year t v.Jel.ve full issues ., totalling fifty tuo puges, '-rere publishe~. Io. addition to tnis regilla:r 01.itput there v1ere many SPECIA~S ~ent ou~ ~n the inter8s t of the Active Chapters, or t ne Alumn~e Asaoc1nt1ons. \fullf on the subject of the magazine,. •;.·e shou.lel not f<:: il to note the mark~d improveuent in a-ppc::.rnnce of the p:cint'P.d sheet, ~s a result ~f the 1n; tallation of a .)60 !.~ ill)eograph, provided by t'P..c Aluranae. Th1s new ma,·b.ine has not only improved th e g<m€·ral l ooks of the PHbEUIX, but it