My dear Girls:

The Round Robin came to me this morning and I was delighted to have it just today as there was nothing so pressing in my program but that it could be set aside for my visit with each of you.

It just happens that I have been writing to you all quite recently as I have been sending out the letters for the Alumnae Fund. Thank you for making me the Class Representative for it has been such a pleasure to renew all my contacts with you. Some of you have been so kind as to write me, besides sending your contributions to the Lodge and I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed the letters - It was nice to hear from Nancy Catching Shields and to know where she is because we were all wondering at the reunion last June - But she is to have the Robin very soon and will write all about herself.

1903 is doing nicely with its contributions to the Fund and in the first month one third of the class had already contributed while others had written they would before May 1st.

The committee does not want the contributions to be a burden to anyone but they hope that each alumna will give something. The main idea is to give. I hope when the report comes out in the Quarterly that you will see 1903 written on the top of the list.

We did have a wonderful time at the reunion in June and I wish you all might have been there. Millie took Lyda and me with her in the car and we felt just like three young girls. Then after all the events were over we brought Sara back with us and had a little longer trip on the way home. We all said we felt so much younger.

In reading the letters I could not help but feel that inferiority complex coming over me, for the girls all seem to have done such splendid things. I am busy enough in the same old way - in the church and Woman's Club but I am not a Traveler, neither do I teach or write or make speeches - you *** seems to be *** for all I want to do - just now we want to build a new Club House for the Woman's Club and I am serving on the Finance Committee of which Millie is chairman. It looks as if we may have a big job ahead of us.

My last letter told of my husband having scarlet fever and since then I had pneumonia and of course upset the house hold with nurses and doctors and anxiety - However, my strong constitution pulled me through and I am as well as ever.

I miss poor dear Ruth Haslup so much and on Christmas I thought of her so often for she had spent the last year with us. Mrs. Haslup sent me a wonderful photograph of her just after the holidays.

The girls are dropping off and some so suddenly. Poor Clara Kellogg! Her death was so sad.

Some of you have had many sorrows to bear and I read about them with a great deal of sympathy.

I had the very great pleasure of meeting both Mr. And Mrs. Robertson several times since they came to Goucher. I want to tell you all that they are wonderful. Just the kind of people that our dear Dr. and Mrs. Goucher were.

I just was there at the Alumnae Council Meeting last November. The Class Representatives were invited. You have already seen Dr. Robertson's various addresses in the Quarterly which must have impressed you. He has a strong and pleasing personality.

Then again I saw them in the luncheon on Feb. 14th in New York, when the New York chapter entertained them. Everybody seemed charmed with them and I am sure when you go back to Baltimore you will find a cordial welcome awaiting you from them.

I predict a 'bigger and better' Goucher under Dr. and Mrs. Robertson's guidance.

Cordially yours,
Daisy Murphy Matthews