Dear Girls:

The Round Robin with all is interesting news came to me a few days ago and I am keeping it a little longer as I want to take it to Lyda Norris tomorrow. I notice her name is not on the list but I know she will want to hear from all of you and also write a letter of her own.

I am still working in the same organizations as when I wrote my last letter. The (?Tralich?) League has developed wonderfully so that now we own the Day Nursery, have a housekeeper and her assistant, and always one nurse and sometimes two. I wrote you before about our Plant Sale which has since become an institution. We held it just last week and in one afternoon made $700 ($1700?) which is all clear profit as all the plants are donated.

The Woman's Club has become quite an important factor in my life for I am now serving as a director. (?Then?) I have joined three of the divisions The Music Committee, the Dramatics division and the Home Economics and I have found each one most interesting. Just this afternoon I have been reading over a play which we are to give out-of-doors in June.

As for my church work- I still sing in the choir and have been doing so for the last thirteen years, We have two sewing societies and I continue to keep in them all I can. You see all I can say is 'ditto' to my last letter for I am still keeping up with all the same duties I had then.

It seems out-of-date to mention the war work but I did all of those things the rest of you have mentioned: knitting, surgical dressings, and serving on all the Loan Committees and Red Cross Boards. Then there was a lot of work (besides) and I done for Camp Mills and the Aviation Camps which were only a few miles away. You see we are only fourteen miles from New York City and these camps were the Embarkation Camps so the boys were constantly coming and going and it was the duty of the Nassau County Red Cross to see they were all in readiness for the trip.

I am delighted to tell you that Millie Benson has come to live in Great Neck and I see her often. We have lots of fun talking about College affairs and she has already joined some of the clubs to which I belong. She has four splendid children and a lovely home but I shall let her tell you all about them. She has promised to lend me the children for a whole day as I haven't any of my own and I am looking forward to it with lots of pleasure. She and her husband have played duplicate auction bridge with us several times and we do have exciting games. In some way Millie has missed the Round Robin but just (?) in Washington so I shall give it to Lyda and she can return it to Great Neck.

The idea of a larger and more beautiful Goucher is very splendid and I do want to see it grow. Yet unless some of the old familiarity is retained I am afraid it will never be the same to us 'old graduates'. Frances Doherty has the right idea when she expresses the hope that Goucher Hall can be kept as it is for what is our Material College and was but Goucher Hall? (to ? it we .....) certainly feel like 'strangers in a strange land.'

And now comes the next part of my letter for I am just going to say a word about my husband. I cannot boast about my children but there is not anything I can say that is too nice for my husband. I sometimes think that it is because of his business that he is thoughtful, sympathetic and gentle- for he is a florist - a wholesale grower of chrysanthemums, carnations, freesia, and snap-dragon. I wish you could all come see us at 'mum' time and I know Will would give you a hearty welcome and Ruth, Sara, Lyda, and Johnny Norris will tell you so too- Best love to each and every one and may the Round Robin come soon again
- Daisy M. Matthews

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