Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Springfield’s Contribution to the Present World Conflict F. B. Wilson ’16 E. N. Smith ' 17 E. M. Best ’ll L). A. McRae ’13 Springfield now has over fifty alumni and undergraduates who are identified in an intimate way with the war. The letters from these men seem all too infrequent, but the information which the College has received indicates that every man is rendering most valiant service, either as an Association of- ficer or in the ranks. The interest of all Springfield men in the welfare and work of these men is exceedingly keen. The following delightful tribute has been received from a prominent clergyman who has recently visited the war zone: — “After working in a score of the English camps and finding the men without any training whatever, and without any vision to see what the great task offered, it was a marvelous relief to drop in on the group of Canadian Y. M. C. A. captains, there to discover trained, efficient, devoted leaders of men, and winners of souls. Really you cannot imagine the contrast between the work being done by Ernest Best, Ed Smith, and Frank Wilson, and the ordinary Y. M. C. A. workers. Never a meeting did we have to worry about in the Canadian area. Everything was planned. Heartiest co-operation was given. They were as keen for the spiritual appeal as they were for big receipts at the coffee bar, but in addition these men knew the job, they work the social end, the athletic end. They knew how to stir and enthuse a crowd. If you could hear Ed Smith lead his bunch of a thousand men singing, “If You Were the Only Girl in the World and I Were the Only Boy,” as a prelude to a most serious and useful spiritual meeting! Then go over and watch Best manage a championship soccer game and a championship baseball game, and turn from that to take up the business side of his hut work and then sit down with him to plan a spiritual pamphlet for the men! You have evidently given them a training that arms them at every point for this difficult job. Deep experiences and impressions came to me in that month in the camps, but I am sure you are getting many letters from there and from France, and you appreciate how valuable the service is. i wish that a score of your men could go over for the spring and summer work in the English camps, where the same kind of work is so sorely needed. You see they don’t even know what they are missing, because they cannot get that type of worker. It made me proud of Springfield College, and of our American training.” 25

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» Alumni and Undergraduates in the War Armitage, F. G. 1916 Lieutenant 5th Pioneer Overseas Battalion C. E. F. Address: Care Army Post Office, London, England. Begg, R. H. 1917 Gunner No. 339990, 67th O. S. Battery, C. F. A., C. E. F., Petawawa Camp, Ont. Home Address: 229 West Ave. N., Hamilton, Ont. Best, E. M. 1911 Captain (Hon.). Supervisor at Whitley Camp. Address: Care Canadian V. M.C. A. H. Q., 14 Cornhill, London, E. C., England (probably now in France). Boeve, N. H. 1918 Private 171st O. S. Battalion, C. E. F., London, England. Bonnamaux, C. L. 1904 Sergeant au 82e Territorial Hopital Auxiliaire 15A La Malgrange par Jarville (M. M.). Home Address: 80 Rue Laugier, Paris XVII, F ranee. Cameron, E. C. 1916 Social and Educational Secretary Army Y. M. C. A., Military Camp, Vernon, B. C. Campbell, A. A. 1916 Captain (Hon.). Y. M. C. A. Secretary with B. E. F. in France. Address: Care Capt. W. W. Lee, 8 Westminster Palace Hotel, London, S. W., England. Cochrane, C. H. 1915 Sergeant Canadian 7th Mounted Rifles (now in France). Corbett, D. W. 1891 Treasurer and Business Manager Canadian Y. M. C. A. with C. E. F. in England. Address: 8 Westminster Palace Hotel, London, S. W., England. Eadie, J. G. 1914 Sergeant 74th Battalion Canadian Field Artillery, Kingston, Ont. Home Address: 12 Shirley Street, Toronto, Ont. Fice, H. T. 1919 Address: 458 Euclid Avenue, Toronto, Ont. Glanvill, Mark 1916 Captain (Hon.). Y. M. C. A. Secretary with B. E. F. in England. Address: Care Canadian Y. M. C. A., 82 Victoria Street, London, England. Gray, G. L. 1916 Sergeant C. P. T. D. Crowborough Camp, Sussex, England. Gregory, Herbert 1912 Enlisted in expeditionary forces, New Zealand. Home Address: 31 Brighton Street, Kaikorai Dunedin, N. Z. Grobb, F. I. 1902 Lieutenant 125th Battalion, Canadians, Brantford, Ont. Hadcock, H. R. 1902 Supervisor of all military camp work in British Columbia. Address: Vernon, B. C. Hewson, C. D. 1919 Lieutenant 12th O. S. Battalion C. E. F. Care Army Post Office, London, England. Heywood, C. E. A. 1898 General Secretary Military Branch Y. M. C. A., 117th Eastern Townships O. S. Battalion, C. E. F., Sherbrooke, Que. Hillier, E. P. 1915 In Association work with English soldiers. Care Y. M. C. A., Tottenham Court Road, London, W. C., England.