Order of the Golden Chain in New Jersey. Constituent Links began to form up and down the eastern coastline and continue to function in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. It wasn't long after the Order of the Golden Chain was created that the country was in the thrust of the Great Depression. There was a strong need to belong to a fraternal organization such as the Golden Chain with members dedicated to helping others less fortunate than themselves. During that period, hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent by Constituent Links, from supplying food, coal and medical supplies to endowing much needed equipment for
Slice genus Slice genus In mathematics, the slice genus of a smooth knot "K" in "S" (sometimes called its Murasugi genus or 4-ball genus) is the least integer g such that "K" is the boundary of a connected, orientable 2-manifold "S" of genus "g" properly embedded in the 4-ball "D" bounded by "S". More precisely, if "S" is required to be smoothly embedded, then this integer "g" is the "smooth slice genus" of "K" and is often denoted g("K") or g("K"), whereas if "S" is required only to be topologically locally flatly embedded then "g" is the "topologically locally flat slice genus"