Washburn University - Kaw Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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l Y-ir, -,,xY,4,-VYik,- WV Summary of Washburn's Part In the War. wifi ASHBURN College is proud of her soldiers. It is her hope, however. fp 5 l . . . . . A that a share 111 her contr1but1o11 towards Wllllllllg' the war mav be L- made by those who have stayed at home, as well as by those who have gone over therefl The first definite action of the College after the declaration of war, was tl1e organization of Red Cross courses in Hygiene a11d First Aid, for the girls, and for the boys, the establishment of military drill. About two hundred and fifty diplomas were granted i11 the Red Cross courses. Wie are indebted for the success of this undertaking to the many doctors and trained nurses of Topeka who gave their time and services to conduct the lecture work and demonstration. In the Fall of IQI7, XV3.Sl'llD1.11'U conducted successfully l1er part of tl1e Na- tional campaign for a Student Friendship XVar Fund of one million dollars. XVashburn's pledge was two thousand dollars, and her actual contribution, about two thousand, Five hundred dollars. This campaign was conducted by a student committee and the major part of the fund was pledged in forty- eight hours after the campaign was started. In the Red Cross Drive of December, IQI7, a student committee canvassed the College and obtained about two hundred sixty-five new memberships in the Red Cross., Many of the students. of course. had become members prev- iously. Gther things have been done for the XV2i5l1lJ111'1l men who are i11 the service. 'Washburn College students have been divided into committees of two or three. each of which has a XVashburn soldier as a 'iXV211'd.u These committees keep their wards in touch with the life of tl1e school. At Thanksgiving, and at Christmas, the school sent a gift to the XVashburn Ambulance Company, at Camp Pike. The Christmas gift was an Edison. The Service Record of XV21Sl'1l.lL11'11 College is 11ot yet complete. It will not be complete until peace has come. and we are mustered out from war ser- vice, to take up again with more intense devotion the constructive work of peace. The VVashburn spirit, the spirit of sacrificial service, will glow with a brighter flame, because we voluntarily enlisted for the period of the war. 19 -43 5 1 'v ..- -vb F .La

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Ambulance Company 347, Camp Pike, Ark., Oct. 15, 1917. DEAR ED :- Vtfell, Ed, I'm most too dizzy to write steady, on account of ninety percent of the country being blown past the barracks this morning and being blown back, at thelpresent moment, so that I can't tell just what part of the land- scape I'm looking at. but-if too much of said dusty country doesn't stop in my eyes, I will tell you all the news. And say, Ed. you've got to come down here if you want to see real, genuine dust! VVell, maybe you haven't heard about our trip down here. I had a lower. Some Pullman accommodations, I tell you. Something new and original. The fellows turned up the chairs of the chair cars fthere were two of themj so that they were Hat and some of the boys curled up on the tops-those were the uppers, but most of us said Safety First, and took the lowers on the tloor, or in the aisle. Nobody slept in the hat racks, I guess, but they did every place else. I know you're sort of shy. Ed. but you ought to have been along at Now- ata, Oklahoma. During a stop of about ten minutes, a number of prairie chickens gathered around the cars. The fellows near the doors rushed out when the girls showed a desire to kiss the soldier boys. Manning Balch had hard luck, in the twilight. he picked out one of African descent! They all look good when they're far away, for in the darkj. IfVell, Ed, we got to camp after a while, and believe me, they had to put the S. R. O. sign out in front of the shower rooms, before very many minutes past. Then we were ready for eats. I guess you've heard about the fellow that told his girl that the meal she'd cooked was good, what there was of it, and then tried to make it O. K., by saying that there was plenty of it, such as it was. Well, that's us, for the first ten days, and no joke about it. Our first meal after we got to camp, was lemonade, with bread and butter. No more, no less. Poor joe Haynes got terribly thin. One night we had red lemonade, and one of the fellows mistook Joe for the thermometer. I believe I have spread about all the news, I know, so will close. Your Old Pal, PETE. 21