St Mary of the Woods College - Les Bois Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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I v X M . .. .T if ' W-f Y'- N .U ILES BOIS F orezgn M'Ssz'onS So completely has the war cut off the support to Foreign Missions as to make it well-nigh impossible The Reizerannl T. Gwvan-Dvqmf, Pondichewy, Irzflia to keep them up. Loathe to abandon his mission, however, the Right Reverend Bishop of Pondi- 77 vw an - - - I - 4 -...1-.. A rg cherry, India, sent to the United States last year the Reverend T. Gavan-Duffy to solicit aid for the East Indians. To this cause Saint Mary-of-the-Woods students contributed a year's support for two schools of sixty children each. War Benefifs Of the photo plays of the year for the war fund there were The Birth of a Nationf' Parentage, a Fairbanks film, Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl, and Gerard's Four Years in Germany. The dramatic performances giving proceeds for the war were The Guerin Gazette, Mrs Snagby's Guests, Mrs, Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Her Camouflagejl The New Professor, The Klepto- maniac, and The Minstrelsf' Other war benefits were the Second Year's Straw- berry Festival, the J uniors' St. Patrick's Day Bazaar, and the Knights of Columbus Field Fete. The lat- ter together with the Academy Sailors' Ball proceeds made a purse of 3600.00 for the Indiana Knights of Columbus war funds. , . ..,. -- b -47 J i e ...m a n v.i,i . ' s . i. 1-n -. X . Thi i. rty-two

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l 1 .. ,,,. .'A...L -l 'l . 1 -1 V , - I 7,,' gg.: . -rll M y A... L: - A ,. W .' -4 C Leclures Among the lectures on the War and allied subjects given this scholastic year were: France and the War Lieutenant Perigord, of the French Army 'The War at the Front The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Arthur S. Barnes, Oxford, England. Talk on Knitting Chairman of the Council of Defense, Vigo County. Food Conservation Miss Elizabeth Cowan, Crawfordsville, Ind. The Third Liberty Loan Mrs. Eliza Tarkington Brigham, Indianapolis. A Red Cross Reading Mr. William E. Bradbury, Robinson, Illinois. Conservation and Economy Mr. Frank J. Hagenbarth, President . of National Wool Growers' Assn. Miss Regina Pessomier as Columbia in Lake ' The Star Spangled Banner at several Patriotic Meetings and War Bancjts 71. ', . -, ,V Y f f .- '-- '- .. Y- Y llll Mr. William E. Bradbury, Robinson, Illinois Fourth Qjicers' T ' ' raining School, Camp Custer, Mich. f , PT - - ',, -fr: ..1'- ' -s-,...'. ' , Thirty-one

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,..'-if' , xx -L. . H ,. f fx..-1 ir' - i' -4 ' 'i' f7J7 ',I: 'T ' 'V 4 4 Red Cross Drill, K. of C. War Fund Field Fete Thirty-three