Ellsworth Community College - Web Yearbook (Iowa Falls, IA)

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' IT'-fl X011 WEB e MSA num rlllllufms Li W f x A Y. M. C. A. GROUP any 13. aa- oz. A- WM. l-I. KRIEG '18 In these days of unprecedented calls for service, highminded service-men are beginning to appreciate more and more the sincerity of those professing to be members of the Young Men's Christian Association. This Association has an international organization effectively wielding the sword of the spirit of the Master, that spirit by which men are made masters of themselves, and are thus kept fit to become serving masters of others. The Red Triangle has become known the world over as an angel of mercy. It has carried bread to the starving bodies of men in European prison campsg it has fanned a feebly flickering flame of hope within a war-depressed spirit into a brightly burning fire nourished by kindness, sympathy and love. While the heart of the World was bleeding, writhing in agony and pain, Asso- ciation menwere heeding their duty, heeding a brother's claim. America entered the war, not when her armies were sent, armies that must kill in order that others might live, but America entered the war when her army of Association men came to the starving prisoners, starving in body and soul, when these menq came, laden with the gifts of love, to nurse the prisoners back to life and hope. T Association men have learned that true giving is all gain not lossg that a humble heart is the highest monument, piercing the skies. They have always been foremost in thinking World thoughts and by the enlightening spirit of the

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T1 f 'T-TF 'V W. 'T' 76W J 'ff AW f il I , , if , - Qf x E 'nu jg 2 ' --...N-Z,' -' ',,i ' . -ffllmllm' G El 1'-vv iiik'FaF1 F'0W ...um . W , 'A ANI Nl -' A ----- 4' fm. .5 Y. XV. C. A. GROUP. E112 13. M. GI- A- BLANC!-IE F. BRITTAIN '13 The Young Women's Christian Association of Ellsworth College is not merely of local importance for it is part of a vast national, and, in fact, an international organization, which has for its purpose the betterment of the young women of the world. The local Y. W. C. A. keeps in touch with this greater organization though correspondence with the various Field Secretaries whose headquarters are in Minneapolis and New York City and through visits from these officials. Forty percent of the dues paid by the members of the college association goes to the maintainence of the greater institution. The Y. W. C. A. has been carried into every field where such an activity is possible. There are not only student organizations such as are found at Ellsworth College, but there are also town, city, rural, county, and high school organiza- tions. The latest branch of the work is that of the Army Y. W. C. A. which establishes and maintains 'fHostess Houses in the cantonments of our own country and France. The entire system proves its efficiency wherever it is found. The local Y. W. C. A. was organized in 1904 under the direction of Miss Ruth Paxon. The organization has prospered and developed, having at one time as many as sixty members. The number at present is only about forty, an ex- cellent percent considering the present enrollment of Ellsworth College under war conditions. I As stated in the Constitution: The purpose of this Association shall be to unite the Women students in common loyalty to Jesus Christ, bringing them to