Citizens Military Training Camp - Full Pack Yearbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

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THE FULL PACK CMTC Committee is supervisor of all the Hostess H activities and also acts as Camp Hostess. She is to be found at the Hostess tent from Io:oo o clock in the i ff f is E4 W 1 7 r 3 x 7 y .1 morning-until Io:oo o'clock at night. Her duties are many and varied, but chief of these is a daily visit to every boy in the hospital. She is a popular favorite with every boy who has attended the camps at Fort Leavenworth. Mrs. Effie Van Tuyle presides as hostess in the Community Center in the City Hall in Leavenworth. She keeps the center open each evening and three afternoons a week when the boys are off duty. She has charge of providing chaperons and issuing invita- tions to the girls of the town to attend the dances held on Monday and Thursday evenings at the General Service Club at Fort Leavenworth for CMTC students. The Hostess Tent is provided with victrolas, piano, records, magazines, a circulating library, news- papers, playing cards and writing material. There is also maintained at the Hostess Tent a loca- MRS, EFFIE H, VAN TUYLE tion file in charge of an enlisted man of the Regular Army. D0wHf0w11 Hflflfff This file gives the name and organization of every CMTC student and enlisted man in camp so that visitors may find any person in camp without going to Camp Headquarters. A telephone connects the tent with all organizations so that visitors may call their friends in camp and arrange to meet them at the Hostess Tent. The boys who are sick in the hospital are furnished stamps, writing paper, pencils, magazines, and playing cards by Mrs. Searcy from the supplies of the Hostess Tent. The Camp Chaplains, of whom there are three, work in close cooperation with the Hostess in looking after students in the hospital. Fort Leavenworth Rotary Club considers the CMTC work its biggest and most important function. Hosrnss House STAFF ' Pagf Eighty-five V' VV 1 VVVYV 'VV . A W N. 5 . , ,,v,v,v,w a 1.v.v.v.v.v.vmvmv.v.v.v.v.v.nv vv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.n . I

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THE FULL PACK f g, ' I, W: Y. M. C. A. . In the Citizens' Military Training Camps the Young Men7s Christian Association is doing excellent work to maintain contentment and happiness among the students. It furnishes stationery, envelopes, ink, and other writing materials to the students. In the Post every night, and at the camp, a picture show is given at a small admission charge. In the Post the Army Y. M. C. A. building is equipped with a swim- ming pool, gym, pool tables, and many other facilities for the entertainment of students. The Y. M. C. A. program at the camp is under the direction of C. C. Bonner, who has had a great amount of experience in Army Y. M. C. A. work. I-Ie can get a smile out of the worst case of blues . KIWANIS . The Kiwanis Club of Leavenworth, Kansas, has done its share in entertaining the Citizen Soldiers, and keeping them happy and cheerful. They put on an unusual vaudeville program at the boxing ring once each week. Every year since the camp has been established the Club has responded in furnishing entertainment and assisting in the camp activities. It is a big job to keep two thousand young Americans happy and contented while away from home. The Kiwanis Club has performed its share of this job in an efficient and generous manner. C. C. BONNER W. C. T. U. - In camp where mothers are scarce, the W. C. T. U. Mothers are a worthysubstitute for any boy. These ladies are kind enough to come out to camp and spend the month helping the boys, keeping themgfrom getting homesick, and looking after themto see that they do not go hungry for sweets. A The ladies of the W. C. T. U. - have been as busy with needles during the month of August as the men have been with guns. Whenever a student is made at non-commissioned ofhcer, the first place he reports is the W. C. T. U. headquarters to have his chev- rons sewed on, 230 have reported for this cause. Fifty thousand yards, or about ten miles of thread has been used in repairing clothes of CMTC students. The Women's 'Christian Temperance Union has fed I,SOO dozen cookies during the encampment. This good work was under the direction of Mrs. Marv Sibbitt of are Wichita, Mrs' Jennie B' Greer of MRS. MARY SIBBITT, Wichita, Kan., MRs. O. H. SHELLY, Leavenworth, Kan., MRS. JENNIE B. GEER, Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Miss Mary Dobbs of Wlchlta, MTS- MCCu11ah Hlfld Mrs. Kan., MRs. O. E. MERROW, Leavenworth, Kan., MRs. J. E. Merrow, both of Leavenworth. MCCULLAH, Leavenworth, Kan. Page Eighty-fix sin'-V-V. ov. V V ' V ' Y Y Q O

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THE FULL PACK ff r o THE CHOWW STAFF 'MESSING ' OTTO DOEHLER To give the outside world an idea of the task of feeding these boys,a few statistics are quoted. Each morning the students consume 360 gallons of coffee, and each day Soo gallons of iced tea or lemonade. Two thousand four hundred pounds of sugar are used each week throughout the camp. Sundays, or whenever chicken is served, goo fowls are needed for the feast. The baker has a big job in this game as he must furnish 2,ooo pounds of bread a day, and when the menu calls for pies he must prepare 6oo of them. Spuds and meat are still the main items of diet, for during the camp the students will eat twenty- five tons of potatoes and the meat allowance for the camp is a ton a day. The cows of Kansas have a rush season during the month of August as 675 gallons of milk must be sup- plied to the camp each day. The daily bill-of-fare is carefully planned, with only food chosen that provides a well- balanced ration to build up the body. Last year there was an average weight gained of three pounds per man. With the health of eighteen hundred boys placed in Army hands for a month, no stone is left unturned to see that the best standards of sanitation are maintained. ' Page Eighty-fight, :V-V-I.V.V4VaV.VoVnVnV4VpVnYaVu' V V Y Y Y Yu U Ve':Ya'a'4VaVAYQYAYQVuVaY.V-YoYn'a'n'oVuVQVQYAYNNAVQYA U I