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THE PRESID2NT'S MESSAGE _Agnin we meet to talk things over together, to recall things accomplished in the yen.r just closed, to look. forward to a new one potential with possibilities. "The Year 1916 has an ASA ring about it" was sa;i.d in the message that went out on Ne\v Year's »ay. It was a remarkable one in many, many ways, but principally j.n the strange, strong ties that it forged between members, between the Council, The Alumn~e and the Unde~g aduates. During all her wide and lengthy experience, your National President d.o'e s not re1.1all any other sorority or fraternity that within a few months suffered so severe tests, or that passed through such anxiety. and deep sorrow . Three of the Council we re stricken, one lingering long in the Shadow } the other passing quickly at sunset. Yet, in spite of all the untoward events, the Sorority is stronger today than ever before, stronger than many another in Hallas with a far longer chapter roll and a far larger incone ·. The yee.r has demonstrated nost clearly that a sorority's strength consists not in the length of its roll, but in the firmness of the fraternal bond. The interest and sympathy that the individual member has shovvn in every other, an interest and sympathy sq ready,. so warm and so abundaht --as to include , not only membersr~. but the families of members, have revealed a quality in Alpha Sigma Alpha that marks it a s distinctly human. MrM . Reed's death, · though in itself n calamity that the Sorority can not recover from ~or many a long d~y) has show.1 more clearly than anything else perhaps could h ave done, how very close, how strangely sweet, is the tie that binds the membership together . . . It had been our hope to devote this first iss~~e of the New Year, the first published after her death, to a Memorial Nmnber for Elva Doyle Reed, but the photographer vrho has the commission £or a likeness from which a half-tone may be nade ~as disappointed us, and so the Memorial Number• l:as been postponed until later in the month. Your National President, ho~ever, has not been content that this Memorial Ntimber should be the f'inal and only expression of the membership's a.lJpree'il<i~tb:rhon of the great work done by Mrs. Reed . A call has been sent out for suggestions from the Staff and from the membership generally . Many have _already pledged their personal loyalty to the 11 PH$ENIX 11 , which is so largely a monument to Mrs. ReedVs devotion, but also their readin9ss to do everyU1ing in their power to make it a success both now and in the ye ars ahead . Still, to your Uational Pres~ d 8nt, spl 3ndid a s may b e a ll thi s work for th e "PHO::::I:NIX" 1 it has seerae d that the Sorority might well , through its general membership 1 undertake to gr:-ng into being something that has never before existed , Several ideas Lave sugecst ed thems elves in this connection, but the one that has maie the .greatest appeal to date is a~ organization to be knovm as the SUlEUSE CLUB . There are sunsh~ne Clubs, establi sh e d for th e purpos e of brip~ ing chee r to thos e in