Hollins University - Spinster Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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Q E S I 7 Dedication ROM the iuoiueut that I learued that I was destined to give to Hollins people T1-113 SPINSTER for 1919, there has uever beeu. a- doubt as to whoiii I should dedicate it. For iii the light of what you have doue for us aud ours- for huiua-uity, we feel that there is uo toleeu of love aud ap- preciatiou that would be too great for you. Ildoreover, we feel that the spirit of love aud service which iuipelled you to dedicate yourself to a great cause came iu part from the coau- iuou source from which we, your successors, uow draw our iuspiraitiou. Y ou have learu-ed aud lived the lessou of For he who loses 'his life shall jiud it, but is it too iuuch to believe that perhaps that beautiful truth was iu-stilled into your heart when you, too, dwelled iii this valley circled by its purple chaiu of uiouutaius-far from the uoise of cities aud the traiup of hurryirig feet? For do uot the ideals which distinguish and glorify this I-Iollius laud, aiid which ca-iiie iiievitably, uuob- trusively to be yours, still periueate your beiug, and hover about you like the fragrant odor of the early spring? And so because we feel that you are still bouud to us irte,i'tricably by the spirit that makes the I-Iollius girl forever oue, because you have made us realize the beauty and worth of fulfilled ideals, arid because we leuow of uo worthier object to which to dedicate our publicati-ou, we give to you who have played aud still play so useful aud uoble at part ilu the struggle through which the world has just passed, and whose uaiues the reader will see if she will but turiz the pages of this auuual -Our SPINSTER. '

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g Hollins Alumnae -War Workers Probably some of us will remember Dick', or Monte. After doing some wonderful work abroad, she returned on the Caroliaza, which was sunk. Many of us read with pride the news- paper accounts of her splen- did courage during the crisis. The following is an extract from a letter from her father, E. N. Dickerson: Lillian did very good work in France, but when the Germans got to Chateau- Thierry I thought it .time for her to return. On the ship she saw that the plug was out of the boat as it was being lowered, and made one out of a napkin and quite certainly saved the boat from sinking. After- wards she took her turn at the oars for four hours at a stretch, and generally kept them all going when they were about to give up. The twin boat which started with hers was lost. The passengers on her boat were very enthusiastic about her, and the papers called her the heroine of thesea, etc. I got the in- formation from others, as she was very loath to talk about the matter at all. Lillian died October 20, '18, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, as Mrs. John Randle. Mary Paxton is a canteen worker with the Y. WV. C. A.. at Langres, France. Before sailing, she held a high government position in this coun- try. She was head of the entire domestic science extension work for the U, S, Government in Roanoke. Miss Henrietta Taylor needs no introduction at Hollins. She was in Paris from November 20. 1917. to March, l9l8, with the Red Cross, her special work being the making of front Packets for the front-line hospitals. She had the supervision of 250 French workers, and was li1'10Wl1 to them by the name Sante Henrietta. x