Hollins University - Spinster Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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it R' ELIZABETH S HELLY To quote directly from Miss Shelly's delightful letter: MY DEAR Miss EVANS: Do forgive me for not answering your letter soonerg but when one has a house, and a boy, and a dog to look after and is doing Government work besides, time does Hy .... 1 went: to Serbia with Madame Slavko Grouitch, the wife of the Serbian minister at Xdfashington, to do volunteer relief work. 1 ran a hospital for Mme. Grouitch at Nich dur- ing the winter of 1915-16, while Nich was occupied by the German, Austrian, and Bulgarian armies. VVe suffered frightful hardships, lived for months practically on black beans, but our individual suffering was 21S'110fl1fIIg compared to what the Serbians themselves endured. I was two years in Europe, doing relief work in Serbia and Roumania. Wlieii I came out of Serbia I brought a Serbian baby, a boy, whom 1 have adopted and who is the joy of my life. He more than repays me for all the hardships I endured in his country! . . . His name is Bogalqieb Shaptchanin. He is muclz handsomer than the photograph which was taken when we hrst arrived in America .... 1 have the happiest memories of Hollins, and am only too glad to appear in the SPINSTER if you think your readers will be interested. If they knew f'Boga, 1 am sure they would be, for he is a very rare little soul, full of humor and bravery and pathos l VVho could help being interested?

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be -Spinster Y. W. C. A. She On October 28th she at Brest Noxfember to La Mon-t Dore Carlo, where she is A -MAY CAMP - Katherine Wallace Hall is one of the Amer- ican Red Cross canteen workers. She sailed for France on November 26, 1918- The party of workers was delayed in London, and did not arrive in Paris until january Znd. Since January 10th she has been working in the Metropolitan Canteen, Paris. . May Camp enlisted' August 20, l918, with the trained at Barnard College. sailed for France, and landed 9th, She went from Paris and from there to Monte now. KATHERINE HALL 8 ' 1' P 1. , ' , ' V - 1 . ' V V 4 , Y! i f it i , V ' ' ' flvM1iJgJ , , - V, .il Y. . K Y , A- - , , . f.,gf y, x 1 in

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lxe Spinstevn !' .' . ::::' , fi Elizabeth Thompson, known here as Liz Thompson, is in Brest, France, with the American Red Cross, doing canteen work. She writes: The canteen at Brest is the most wonderful one I have seen in France. There is a huge recreation room which is most at- tractiveg it is furnished in yellow and blue, with softly-shaded hanging electric lights, attrac- tive curtains, windows all along the side of the room. There are blue benches with soft cushions all around the wall, and fifteen big blue tables with writing materials, a huge fire- place, and two pianos. You can not imagine anything homier or more attractive. The boys simply live here. Next to this room is the officers' room, which ,is quite like this, but smaller. Then comes the private sitting-room for the canteen workers and their private dining-room, and then a room for the meeting of thevdirectors. There is a large kitchen and a pantry, and the girls serve hot chocolate, coffee, and doughnuts to the boys four times a day. There are thirty lockers under an older woman, and we work in shifts of eight hours each. The boat shifts are the most interesting. The girls go on small boats that run be- tween the wharf and the big boat, and serve food to the soldiers who are leaving for home. There are many wounded, some without legs and arms, and many are insane. The girls take turns in marketing for the canteen, and for their own private table. Besides the daily routine of work, there are dances, and frequently an old friend passes through Brest on the way to America. I would not give up the experience that I am having for anything in the world. Sarah WVatson is working with the Y. VV. C. A. She made a home for the Signal Corps women at St. Nazaire. VVhen she got this in good working order she was sent to Tours to make a home for the French girls who are doingvwar work, where she still is. , Other workers about whom I was able to receive no information are: Lucy Carney, Gay Montague QMrs. XfVellfordj, Annis Clark, Jane Wingfield, Nellie Dickinson, and Neila Russell Christian. EcHoEs or THE WVAR 10