Dear 'Girls';

Just a week ago I was having lunch in Baltimore with Emilie Doetsch and Doctor Shefloe before going to Coatesville for a day with Olive Mast and on home. I had been in Richmond for a week with my youngest, Frances, who is in college where her sister finished in 1930. I came up to Baltimore for a glimpse at Goucher and the old friends. You all know how these glimpses rejuvenate me and I have so many questions to ask that I am hoarse when I leave.

It was such a keen disappointment to me not to be able to attend our reunion that I asked Emilie and Dr. Shefloe all about that. I spent an hour at the Lodge with Mrs. Sumwalt and almost missed a luncheon but she wanted me to know how much the Alumnae Officiary had appreciated the way the class had responded to appeals for the Alumnae Fund and how delightful they found Daisy Murphy to work with. She could not praise her efficiency too highly. As most of you know, Mabel is to be our class representative on the Alumnae Fund Committee until the next reunion and I hope even tho our contributions are small, we will send them in and encourage her by the percentage of the class responding to her letters. She is in the basement, now, pressing a dress for her daughter and does not know I am asking this but I know that a note even saying you could not send money was encouraging to Daisy against complete silence. Mabel feels that hearing from you all is her compensation for taking the work. I know Daisy found it so.

Mabel and I have had a splendid time visiting and one thing we have talked about especially is this letter. We are anxious for it to travel fast enough so the letters are not too old to contain late news of where you are and what you are doing. For that reason, we limited the length to one sheet and are using an envelope for mailing so the letter may be sent more easily. I had hoped to get the letters you sent to the reunion to inclose but they have not come from Millie. We are changing the routing of this letter a bit, too, hoping that will lend more variety. We will try the 'Robin' in this form for one year and see how fast it can go.

And now for my own summer. I am sorry to have the Century of Progress close, not because I wanted to see it more myself, but I keep hoping all the time that some college friend will come to Chicago to see it and on out to Iowa to see me. That isn't being conceited, just selfish. May Keller was here for a week and two of Rob's Amherst friends just escaped the 'delightfully' warm weather we had but we did have a guest when the thermometer reached 110. You haven't any idea how every thing was burned unless you saw us. The rains have commenced to come now and Mabel has enjoyed driving to Ames in the rain. We shall be only thirty-two miles from Sally and plan to see her quite often. We are hoping, too, that she will like the middle-west.

This summer I have tried to keep myself ready for guests but with October, everything I have been persuaded to 'Join' begins to meet and I realize how easily I am influenced. I have a missionary convention the first week in October. I take three or four days of each year and just revel in foreign missions.

Last year I had a grand time as program chairman of the Women's Club. This year I am only second vice president and plan to rest some. We have a very interesting club building and have just paid off the last of our bonds. That is adding some to our enjoyment of the club, this year.

With Frances gone, I want to go to PTA but am very much interested in A.A.U.W. You see even I, still a good Republican out here in Iowa, can be alphabetical. Margaret and I are both active in A.A.U.W. and I have enjoyed the contact with younger college women. Mabel asked me a few days ago what P.E.O.'s were. I am one but not a very active one.

This fall I am trying something new. We have a large church of about 2400 members and I am a division chairman. I have never been an expert at planning large dinners but I am going to have to learn.

I have always wished that we could have a Goucher meeting here in Des Moines with more than four or five present. That is one of the things I want to try this year. Now that Mabel has tried coming West, I might persuade more of you to try it so we might have a class reunion here.

Fan has been in Colorado for a year but is with us now. She has not been very well but feels better in the West and likes Colorado especially. I kept hoping the extreme heat, this summer, would help me reduce but the old friends whom I saw in the East thought I was quite buxom. I kept my hat on as much as possible so the gray hairs would not show. Olive Mast said she was stouter, tho I doubt it, and Emily Doetsch looked just fine. Mr. Kahn came to the station to see me off at Baltimore, and it seemed like college days when he used to meet the late train we arrived on from the West.

One of the arguments we hear against sending our children so far away to college is that their friends will be so far from them when they leave school. It is true that I do not see many of the old college friends out here and I get decidedly home-sick for you. It has been fine to see Mabel two summers in succession.

In closing, I want to urge you again to pass the letter on as quickly as possible and if the girl whose name follows yours does not reply when you ask her if she wants the 'Robin' write to the next one. I hope this method of mailing will prove easier than the large book.

Love and best wishes to you all
Alice D. Flick