Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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fei M RED CROSS WORK SHOP In lay, 1917, Indiana University sent Louise Stubbins and Elizabeth Sage to Chicago for an intensive course in the making of surgical dressings. They returned prepared to teach others, and at the beginning of the summer session they offered a Red Cross course in that work. The same classes were offered in the winter semesters. Early in Xovember there was opened in Kirkwood 4 a Red Cross workshop, where coeds and townswomen might come to prepare gauze dressings and bandages for use overseas. So eagerly was the opportunity seized that between that time and April, igi8, thousands and thousands of pieces were shipped. The workers crowded the one room until the big room, Kirkwood 3, was added to the shop. There are tables now to accommodate more than one hundred and fifty women at one time. The uniform is a white apron and white cap. Miss Sage and Miss Stubljins are per- mitted to wear read gauze caps and their assistants may wear blue gauze. 5] Page Twenty-Seven 1918

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. RbuTUS V YARN SHOP In tlic West Parlurs ni the Stiulciit UuiUliiis is the University Yarn Shop, wlicrc girls may learn to knit as vveil as to receive yarn tor knitting. The Woman ' s Leagne originated the idea of having a real sliop at the University and it has since developed ra])idly. s The first shipment of yarn was received in March and since then there have been two ■ more shipments, ninety-ei,ght ponnds being received in the last one. As the .Arbntus goes to press there are two hnndred girls who knit there now and there is plent - of material for more workers. The shop is open on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2 130 to 5 130, when beginners may come to the shop to receive their material and learn to knit. In the last shipment, sweater yarn was also received, so that beginners might learn something easier than socks. . s a token of appreciation, the war mothers and girls of the University, under the direc- tion of Dean Ruby E. C. Mason and the Woman ' s League, sent Christmas boxes to all the Indiana University boys in service. Each girl chose a soldier from the list of boys in ser- vice, to whom she might send a bo.x. Several weeks of preparations preceded the packing of the boxes. The girls knitted sweaters, wristlets and socks for the soldiers and the war mothers n ade 6-iS pounds of fruit cake and candles. Greetings from Dr. Bryan were in- cluded with the other gifts. The climax of the undertaking was the preparation of the 1)0xes for shipment, when the girls met to pack over six hundred of them. Letters from the boys show how the gifts were appreciated in camp and trench. CAMPUS WAR RELIEF FUND The Wiiinan ' s League BoTrd. desiring to increase the efficiency of the women of the University in war relief work, authorized a finance conuuittee in b ' eliruary to insure ma- terials for the great nundier of hours of war work service pledged by the women students at the second semester registration. This conuuittee had charge of the raising of a Campus War Relief Fund, which was contributed by the students and faculty. The sum of $550 a month was pled.ged for the remainder of the semester. This amount is used to provide material for the Red Cross Surgical Dressings Shop, the Campus ' arn Shop, the French Relief and V. W. C. . . Civilian Relief. I ' iii;.- Tw.tilySIx 1918

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SVl BUTUS X M Miss Georgia Finley, formerly instructor in the Home Economics Department, re- (X ' i (.cl an appointment from Washington as cliief dietitian of Base I l()si)ital Xo. t,2. The hospital sailed on December 3 and is now seeing service somewhere in I- ' rance. Uefore Aliss Finley left, the wnmeii nf the I ' niversity ])resented a wrist watch to her at the same time that llu ' ' i)rescnled comfort kits to Battery 1 . I ' liK ' - ' r ' wiiily-IClKhl 1918