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1 . 1917 •
AN ENLARGED COUNCI L When the new !~J pha Sigma Alpha. H:J. s pro jected in the Spr:i.ng of 191~, one of the Plans was fo r a Nati ona.l Councll ·!bhat should be a. dupll.cate of the Chap ter Assembly and tha. t shculd h ave theref ore eight members. So large a C ouncil~ h owever; appeared r~ther un- ' wieldy, as well as unnecessary, whil o the reM·ganized Soror ity was as y.:t only. projectecl, and so it was rec ommended to the 1iami ConventJ.on, whJ.ch m~t in tho Fall of 191~ that ' there be but f our members o~ the Council,-a President, a Sec~etary , a Treasurer and an Histor~an. Th~ Conv enti on acted upon this suggesti on and at the sume tJ.me refra1ned from dofinin tho duties of those e l eeted thus leaving them quite free t o blaze their own trails as time ~nd circumstance should dictate . While the Chapter Roll and the Membership List rema ined small, as was the cas e during the first year and f or mos t of the soconcl, the four Councillors did not fi. nd their dutieo onerous, but during the present scho ol year, there has been such a pr essure of detail work that your Nati ona l President has fou~d it impossible t o do the constructive plannfung th:J.t she had hoped to do for the Sorority . The 0.eat:1 of Mr s. Reed quit e na turo.lly increased the burdens already lo.id upon the shoul de rs of your President , in epi te of the fact that many vol unteers i mneclia tely c ame forward v'li. th offers of· assistance. ll numb er of the se vo lunteers are now busy on special assignments ·and e.re r c~ ndering sp lendi d servic e in vari ous capacities, but form the vo . . ·y na tur e of the kibd of work that Mrs. R~ed was doing, there wo.. d mucJ.1 that could not be handed over t o another until the pers on had ho.d s omG training. These Cornmi tt e o"", h owe ve:r 1 d~.c1 not seem t o ,neet all t he . ne~ds of ·the Sorority, and s o , af t er due deliberation, your National President felt that t ho time had c ome when the Council shou1d be enlarged, ancl when c ertain vm ll-c1.8i'inec1 duti es should be assigned to eanh Nati on a l Officer~ ;.~ c o r ding ly a reconnendation was made to the other t wo membors o~ t he Coun cil, and a vote taken somewhat later resulted in the ostablis:1mo~t of a gov erning b0dy rf eight members . · This pl an , as may b e readily seen, gi v es each Chapter a Superv-".sor f'ln the Nati rmal Council, sttme one t o whom she may turn. <:. any mcment f.)r :~.dvice or sugges ti:~ns, some ')ne t o whoJ? she is dl r octly responsible for the prop3r ciis charge ~ f her dut1es , some on . . wi t.h whom she may vrorl{ to i mprov e the char actor of her Cl;tapt er, s? ~h2.t it may become a mnclel on its own c am~Jus. B'lA.t :Nat 1onal Offl~ers, whil e work ing to pe rfect the Ch:J,pters thr our;l their ~ Unde r: J~ ~l. dtes', v1ill be vi,.,rldng together o.s a ·:lhole tti. make th~ Nat1_:n?-l ~~.~" a to r t~O in the Pedo,gogic a l Fiold and a. power 1~ th~ l1VBs. O.t.. 1 ts Ol :l '.· mombaro . Believj.ng that the genero.l mem?e r sl;tlP Wlll be ~nterestA u in the dut i es of the C'~unc il, some.Epace 1s g1ven to sett1ng these f0 rth.