Page 39 - 1918 October - To Dragma

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CORRESPONDENCE

Brookhaven, Miss.,
August 26th, 1918.
My dear Miss Chase:
Please find enclosed a clipping from yesterday's New Orleans
Item, which you might care to use in To DRAGMA. I think it is
significant that out of nine workers and six alternates chosen (from
more than thirty applicants) four should have been A O EE's.
Fraternally and cordially,

FANNIE BUTTERFIELD, K , '17.

The personnel of the first Newcomb relief unit has been announced.
It's the first band of college women to go from the South under the banner
of the Red Cross. It is the third such unit sailing from the United States
and the whole of the Newcomb alumna, collectively and individually, goes its
way these days wearing an expression of uplift and illumination and inspiration.
Can you blame them ?
"With the call for workers growing louder every day, letters coming back
to tell of the desperate plight they're in for relief—those canteen workers and
nurses who have gone before—it's wonderful to feel that we actually are going
to help with our own hands!" says one of the chosen ten.
There are just ten in the unit. That's a Red Cross regulation you under-
stand. And six alternates stand ready to step into the breach should circum-
stances or accident remove one from that first list before the time of sailing.
"We aren't quite sure when that will be," says Miss Caroline Richardson,
chairman of the committee on arrangements, who is among the chosen ten.
"But we have our hearts set on November. I t is a matter for the Red Cross
to decide. Everything concerning the unit is in their hands now."

T H E WORKERS

Miss Richardson is a member of a class that accepts laughingly at every
alumnx banquet the jibes of recent graduates as to contemporaries of Columbus
and 1492. F o r some years now she has ruled freshmen composition classes
with a large blue pencil and a sense of humor at which the freshmen look
askance.

(A O I I ) Anna Many, president of the Alumnx, is going, too. Athlete,
mathematician, she won basketball games at college not so many years ago,
has won tennis and golf tournaments since, has taken a degree in mathematics
and taught that same to other Newcomb girls, and she looks forward to this
new test of her sportsmanship with her usual quizzical smile.

Edna Danziger has devoted her time to social service since she left college
in 1907. She has worked at the Kingsley House and the Young Woman's
Hebrew Association.

(A O I I ) Edith Duprez has been teaching English in the Lafayette Industrial
School.