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COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN
The Catholic women's unit was organized at the residence of Mrs. John Coode. Mrs. Horace Cauvin was elected president, Mrs. Herbert McSweeney. secretary, and Mrs. John Steadwell. treasurer. The meetings of this unit were held at the Knights of Columbus club house. and the instructors of knitting were Mrs. Bettie Dahlgren. Miss Alice G. Smith, Mrs. T. R. Behan. Miss Sadie Cauvin. Mrs. John Bevington, and Mrs. Dora Bruce Grimes.
The following members of the unit donated the wool and knitted a large number of articles:
Mrs. John Coode. Mrs. A. P. Ottarson. Mrs. John Bevington. Mrs. M. J. Smith, Mrs. Herbert McSweeney. Mrs. Arthur Jarvis, Mrs. J. H. Grimes. Mrs. F. E. Kuhn, Mrs. T. B. Taylor. Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson. Mrs. J. N. Steadwell. Mrs. Horace Cauvin. Mrs. Stanley Teachout, Mrs. John Lowery. Mrs. John Trebing. Mrs. Albert Souhr, Mrs. John Moore. Mrs. A. J. Thuss, Mrs. P. A. Murray. Mrs. Frances McCarthy. Mrs. J. L. Spore. Mrs. Charles Horn. Mrs. Thomas Swords. Mrs. Thomas Mooney, Mrs. T. R. Behan. Mrs. John Miller, and Misses Mary Finnegan, Dorothy Lutzler. Elizabeth Green. Annie Marie Nenon, Annie Mai Kennedy. Mamie Brew, Mary De Moville. Annie De Moville. Catherine Grimes. Cornelia Coode. Kathleen Langham. Agnez Kuhn. Kate Fitzgerald and Ellie Sutherland.
THE FIRE FIGHTERS UNIT
The fire laddies of Nashville formed a volunteer unit. "the kit unit." and gave their spare time to knitting under the instructions of Mrs. John Coode and Mrs. Sam Orr. These men turned out a very creditable number of hand-knitted articles. Later they learned to operate a sock machine and greatly increased the volume of the unit's work.
Mrs. Harry W. Evans donated the first knitting machine to be used in Nashville, and after the practicability of the machine was established several more were pur- chased later for the Red Cross Chapter.
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Y. W. C. A. ANNEN UMIT
Mrs. Charles Dudley Jones and Mrs. Edwin A. Price were the organizers and instructors.
Miss Mary Smith. President. Miss Mary Sutton. Treasurer. Miss Kate Healey. Secretary.
ALBERT GLEAVES U MIT. MADISON. TEVA.
Mrs. E. R. Doolittle. President.
Mrs. A. J. MeGaughey. Secretary. Miss Hattie Rose. Treasurer.
Mrs. F. T. Cartwright. Purchasing Agent.
Mrs. 11. B. Chadwell. Extension.
BELMONT MAGAZINE CIRCLE UNIT
Mrs. John 11. DeWitt. President. Wis. J. G. Creveling. Jr .. Vice-President. Vr -. D. M. Smith. Secretary and Treasurer. Mrs. Clay G. Stephens. Instructor.
This unit was composed of the entire membership of the Belmont Magazine Club. whose roster of members appears in the Federated Club Chapter.
Mis, Lina Kaminsky. one of the most efficient knitters of the Navy Comforts Committee, was born in Berlin, Germany. She. however, became so impressed with American ideals and principles that her adopted country did not have a more loval or devoted patriot.
To Mrs. Harry Evans. President of this organization, credit is due the training of a large number of women of Tennessee who later became efficient war workers.
MOTHERS WITH SEVERAL SONS IN SERVICE.
No other county in the State can boast of having more sons in the service of their country from the same families than that of Davidson County. While we give a few illustrations of the mothers and their sons. there were more than a hundred families in the county with from three to six stars on the Service Flags that hung on the front doors of the absent soldiers' homes. Mr. and Mrs. Mart Rice. Davidson County residents. had six sons who were natives of the county in the service, and a number of other families who had several sons in service are recorded with the Gleaves Sword Chapter.
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MRS. ALEXANDER S. CALDWELL. (Margaret Winston)
To her night. Povate Winston Caldwell, Headquarters Detachment. 156 Field Artillery, 81st Wildeat) Division. To hes left. Lieutenant Harold P. Caldwell. Company 1. 114th Machine (.un Battalion. 39 Brigade, 30th (Old Hickory) Division. A. E. F. Sitting to Jeft. Lieutenant William Dake Caldwell. 115th Infantry. 59th Brigade, 30th Divisjon. A. E. F.
Member of Advisory Council of this History.
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MRS. JOSEPH R. WEST (Pattie Southworth)
The Service Flag is for the four sons of \r. and Mrs. West who were in service. Her entire family were patriots. Mrs. West and daughter Miss Pattie Ready West. served as faithfully in the "Army at Home" as the sons who were under military discipline.
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MRS. W. T. HU GGINS (Centre first row
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To her recht. Privat Hooper Philips Huggins Gleceased. Battery E. 114th Field Artillery. Gimp Sevier. S. (.
Top row: Left. Private Allen Connell Huggins, Camp Johnston. Jacksonville Fla. Right. Private David Spatton Huge'rs. Naval Operating Base. Hampton Roads, Va.
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MRS. W. H. SCHEURMAN ( Lenora Badger)
To the right. Charles Barrington Cridd'e. Bat. F. 312 F. A .. 97th Div .. A. E. F .; William Smith Criddle, U. S. Navy Reserve Force. San Diego, Cal .: Felix Ewing Criddle, U. S. Eng. Supply Corps, Washington. D. C .: Edward Scruggs Cridd'e. S. A. T. C., Vanderbilt University.
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MRS. WARY BRIGHT THOWAS
Top mow. to her left: Lieutenant John W. Morgan Thoma. B7Ist In- fantis. A. E. F Bottom now. left: Winston Bright Thomas. Yale Naval Training Jant. Right. Senior Lieutenant U. S. N. Convoyed in war zone on 1 6. S. Salem.
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SONS OF MRS. W. H. HANBY, WHO WAS DAVIDSON COUNTY'S MOTHER OF MARINES
Below. Private Louis Edward Lee, the first Davidson County volunteer to pay the supreme sacrifice on the battlefield. after America entered the war. To the left, above. Private Carter Webb Lee, who served thirteen months in South America with the L. S. Marine Corps. Right. l'rivate Harry Eugene Lee. U. S. Marine on board U. S. S. Pennsylvania. U. S. S. Arizona, and Submarine Base, San Pedro, California.
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Young Woman's Chri tian Association
MRS. GEORGE F. BLACKIE. World Bar President
The National Young Woman's Christian Association throughout the country co- operated with all agencies. new and old. which were engaged in World War ae- tivities. The Nashville Association followed this policy implicitly. and took an active part in all campaigns, beginning their services immediately after the United States declared war. The Nashville Y. W. C. A. building became the headquarters for all organizations and committees engaged in war activities which did not have established headquarters. No more patriotic women could be found than the girls of the two boarding departments of the Nashville Asso- ciation. They were represented in every phase of war work and added materially to the feature publicity given to every campaign and parade.
The Y. W. C. A. officers, both volunteers and em ploves, the standing committees and general member- ship held positions of leadership in local and State patriotic organizations. The officers and board members 4.1 - AREST TRAWICK ikat H conlon) of the Association during the World War were as fol- łows: Mrs. George F. Blackie. President. from 1915 to 1918. Executive Board members were: Mrs. W. G. Ewing. Mrs. Verner Moore Lewis. Mrs. Perey Warner. Mrs. Edward Buford. Mr -. W. W. Crandall. Mr -. Arch Trawick. Mrs. John R. Vast. Miss Katherine Morris, and Miss Mary Pleasants Jones.
Mrs. Verner Moore Lewis, chairman for Nashville in the first Y. W. C. A. drive. with a committee selected from the membership. raised $13.000 in two days' time. This was the second largest amount collected in that length of time in any campaign throughout the war. Mr -. Ferdinand Kuhn raised >12.000 the latter part of the war in a campaign.
For several years before the United States entered the war the National Board of Young Woman's Christian Association had been co-operating with the American Red Cross, and through the Red Cross Bureau of Nurs- in Service an educational program had been mapped out by which the women of the country could be pre- pared for emergency work. In February. 1917. a suo. gestion came from the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. that training classes in home care of the sick. first aid and home dietetics should be organized through the Nashville Association. Mrs. I. J. Van Ness. chairman MISS MARY PHEASANT. INI - of the Educational Committee, appointed Miss Louise Mellenry as chairman for the Red Cross educational work of the local Y. W. C. V.
Miss Mellenry and Miss Mary Pleasants Jones, educational secretaries. organ- ized. during the World War. the first class in Red Cross Elementary Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick in Davidson County. The first lesson was given on April 17.
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1917, with a class of nineteen members: the second class, assembled on April 20, 1917, had twenty members; and the third class, organized April 25. 1917. had twenty-five members. On April 26, 1917, an evening class of sixteen members was organized. At that time Miss Fannie Owen Walton was the only Red Cross nurse in Nashville qualified to teach beginners. She was detailed by the American Red Cross to take charge of the Y. W. C. A. classes. Mrs. Willie F. Acree, who was later qualified to teach. completed the work begun under Miss Walton, and organized four additional classes. Miss Walton was appointed by the Red Cross to hold examinations of those who applied for certificates. She was later commanded for overseas duty. Lectures were given by Nashville physicians on all matters pertaining to public health service. in the auditorium of the local Y. W. C. A. Mis- Pearl Sanders and Mrs. Frank Avent lectured on practical home life.
A list of members who completed the first class in the Red Cross courses is as follows:
Miss SUSIE Me WHIRTER
Class No. 1: Mrs. Medora MeAlister Blackie, Mrs. Gertrude Dix. Mrs. Marie Horton Evans. Mrs. Blanche Lindaner Fensterwald. Mrs. Virginia Mellenry Hale. Mrs. Anne Davis Jackson, Mrs. Louise Bransford Kirkman, Mrs. Miriam Lindauer, Mrs. Louise Jackson McAlister, Mrs. Louise Perkins McFerrin, Mrs. Carrie Hoyt MeHenry. Mrs. Sara D. Richardson, Mrs. Eleanora Wills Rutland, Mirs. Sarah Teitlebaum. Mrs. Dillie Luttrell Thomas. Mrs. Mary Ready Weaver Williamson, Mrs. Margaret Warner White. Miss Matilda Porter, and Miss Percie Warner.
Class No. 2: Mrs. Vance Bogle Bryan, Mrs. Margurite Burr. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooker, Mrs. Barclara Dunnivant, Mrs. Eula Golden Gaines. Mrs. Margaret McCloud. Mrs. Gertrude. Mc- Gannon, Mrs. Leila Smith, Mrs. Anna Russell Cole Weaver. and Miss Alexine Bogatsky, Miss Mabel Cohn. Miss Loraine Hyronemus. Miss Mary Jane Napier, Miss Miriam Poyntz, Miss Hattie Robertson, Miss Lucy Rouzer. Miss Theodora Scruggs. Miss Roberta Steadwell, and Miss Vivian Watkins.
Class No. 3: Mrs. Elizabeth L. Buntin, Mrs. Ellen Rion Caldwell, Mrs. Helen Pickslay Cheek. Mrs. Martha Ballard Dobson. Mrs. Theresa Greif. Mrs. Annie Bolling Jenkins. Mrs. William F. Cheek. Miss Katherine Butler, Miss Frances Davies. Miss Katherine Dury. Miss Ellen Cockrill Foster. Miss Bernice Frank. Miss Emmeline Green, Miss Bertha Herbert. Miss Helen E. Kelley. Miss Eleanor Patrick. Miss Margurite Pittinger. and Miss Lillian Weinbaum.
Class No. 4: Miss Lillian W. Stephens, Mlle. Germaine Sansot. Miss Eleanor Gardner, Miss Annie Gary Gosnell. Miss Mary Pleasants Jones, Miss Vera King. Miss Mabel Miller. Miss Katherine Morris. Miss Sallie Parchment, Miss Sara Paris. Miss Emma J. Sisson. Miss Lucile Talley. Miss Louise Tarpley, Miss Louise McHenry. Miss Dene Smalling. and Miss Roberta Tarpley.
Class No. 5: Mrs. Jennie Peebles De Witt. Mrs. Beulah Campen. Mrs. Mary Mc Willian. Wiss Flora Arledge. Miss Eliza Arlidge. Miss Sophie Acree, Miss Jean Bradford, Miss Nancy Castner. Miss Sadie Frank. Miss Mary Hibbett. and Miss Margaret O'Leary.
Class No. 6: Mrs. Florence Saunders. Mrs. John W. Thomas, Jr., Mrs. Josephine Young. Miss Lucretia Owen, Miss Enla Skinner, Miss Edith Pentecost. Miss Sara Ogilvie, and Miss Nelle Roache.
Class No. 7: Mrs. Martha Buford Jones. Mrs Hazel Brock Alexander, Mrs. Sara Polk Brad- ford, Mrs. Louise B. Crutcher. Mrs. Mamye Ridley Nichol, Mrs. Frances Crutchfield. Mrs. Catherine Riley, Mrs. Jessie Thomas Green. Miss Rebecca Polk, Mrs. Lutie Vance. Mrs. Chris- tine Smith, and Mrs. Julia Sharpe.
Class No. 8: Mrs. Luella Hall, Mrs. Mary F. Baird. Mrs. Harriett Ingram, Mrs. Nannie Dudley Pilcher Folk. Mrs. John A. MeEwen. Mrs. Mary B. Vaughn. Mrs. Ophelia Hecht, Mrs. Julia Dudley Dake. Mrs. Annie H. Orr. Mrs. Helen Fleming, Mrs. Annie Sinnott. Mrs. James Weakley, Mrs. Fount Williams, Mrs. Adine Allen. Mrs Sammie Keith Glasgow. Mrs. Edith H. Cobbs. Mrs. W. T. Young. Miss Frances Kirkpatrick. Miss Martha Weakley, Miss Olla Oglevie, Miss Carrie Lee Hunter. Mrs. Byron Martin. and Mrs. Charles Hunt.
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THE FIRST CLASS OF THE WORLD WAR IN FIRST AID TO RECEIVE CERTIFICATES AT THE Y. W. C. 1.
They ate: Miss Mary Pleasant- Jones. Mrs. Robert Cheek, Mrs. Henry Teitlebaum, Mis. Dempsey Weaver, Mrs. Anne Davis Jackson, Mrs. Ellen Rion Caldwell. Mrs. Dea Fletcher- Cherry. Mrs. Carrie Hoyt Melleury, Mrs. Louise Bransford Kirkman, Mrs. Louise MeFerrin. Miss Sara D. Richardson, Mrs. Virginia Gross, Mrs. Mary Ready Weaver Williamson. Mrs. Margaret M. Med.loud. Miss Mabel Miller. Miss Vera King. Wiss Emiline Green. Miss Ellen Cockrill Foster, Miss Katherine Dury. Miss Matilda Porter. Miss Lucile Tally. Miss Eleanor Kirk- patrick Miss Francis Davies, Miss Fannie O. Walton, Nurse. Mrs. Fred W. Kelsey, Mrs. Theresa Grief. Mrs. Eula Golden Gaines. Mrs. Margaret Burr. Mrs. Elizabeth Brookes, Mrs. Vaner Bogle Bryan, Mrs. Blanche Lindauer Fensterwald. Mrs. Louise Jackson MeAlister. Miss Vivian Watkins. Miss Percie Warner. Mrs. John O. White, Miss Lorraine Hyronemus. Wiss Louise Prich- ett. Mrs. Bascomb Montgomery.
The first class in Davidson County in Red Cross Home Dietetics was organized at the Y. W. C. V. on June 25. 1917. with Miss Ada W. Field and Miss Marian Oney. of Peabody College. as instructors. The following women were members of the class:
Mrs. Sophia Acrer. Mrs. Dea Fletcher Cherry. Mrs. Jennie Peebles De Witt. Mrs. Sara Polk Bradford, Mrs. Blanche Lindauer Fensterwald, Mrs. Eula Golden Gaines. Mrs. Annie B. Jenkins. Mrs. Mavi Ridley Nichol. Mrs Sara D. Richardson, Mrs. Itie Kinny Reno, Miss Sadic Frank. Viss Vera Kinz. Miss Mabel Miller. Miss Sara Ogilvie. Wiss Lucile Talley. Miss Vernon Kirk- patrick. Miss Matilda Porter, and Miss Vivian Watkins.
A second class in home dietetics was taught under the supervision of a Peabody College instructor.
On May 8. 1917. at the local Y. W. C. A .. a class in Red Cross First Vid was organized with Mrs. M. C. MeGannon and Dr. George Williamson as instructors. The following women received certificates in this course:
Mrs. Anna Russell Cole Weaver. Mrs. Anne Davis Jackson. Mrs. Ellen Rion Caldwell. Mrs. Dra Hetcher Cherry. Mrs. Virginia Mellenry Hale, Mrs. Carrie Hovt Mellenry, Mrs. Louise Bransford Kirkman, Mrs. Louise MeFerrin. Miss Sara D. Richardson. Mrs. Sara Lowenstein Tuttebaum, Mrs. Virginia Gross, Mrs. Mary Ready Weaver Williamson. Mrs. Margaret MI. fat And Mrs Theresa Greif. Mrs. Enla Golden Gaines, Mrs. Helen Pickslay Check. Mrs. Wifemnb Burr. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooker, Mr. Vance Bugle Bryan. Me. Germaine Sansot. Mrs. HI babe L dater Fensterwald. Mrs. Louise Jackson Me Mister, Miss Vivian Watkins. Miss Olla Hu. Mrs Lorraine Uvrenemus. Miss Mabel Miller. Miss Louise Pritchett. Miss Roberta Steadw. D Mr- Bascomb Montgomery. Miss Vera King. Miss Emmeline Green. Miss Ellen C. Foster, New Katherine Durs. Mas Percie Warner. Mrs. Fred W. Kelsey. Miss Theodora Scruggs. Miss Mary Jane Vagues, Miss Mary Steadwell. Miss Matilda Porter, Miss Fucile Talles. Miss Fi roces Davies and Miss Eleanor Kukpatrick.
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FIRST GROUP TO COMPLETE COURSE IN WAR EMERGENCY WORK IN DAVIDSON COUNTY
Those appearing in the picture are: Miss Mary Pleasants Jones and Miss Sue White, instruc- tors: Miss Ethel Fuston, Miss Muffet Sims, Mrs. Hillman Cheatham, Miss Delia Byrum, Mrs. James Enloe, Miss Georgia DuBose, Miss Sadie Cain, Miss Fay Quarles, Miss Alexine Bogatzki, Miss Minnie Lowenstein, Miss Mae Hurt, Miss Pauline Edwards, Miss Ruth Foster. Miss Catherine Lafferty. Miss Mabel Cohn, Miss Catherine McGovern.
The majority of these women took instructions in the preparation of surgical dressings under Mrs. Willie F. Acree, and those who complied with the require- ments were entitled to become instructors in the Nashville Red Cross Chapter.
During the influenza epidemic. in the fall of 1918. the Y. W. C. A. co-operated in every possible way with the Red Cross. Nashville Chapter.
In May, 1917. war emergeney training classes were organized at the Nashville Association in the following subjects: Use of adding machine, dav and evening classes, taught by a representative of a standard adding machine company: Stenog- raphy. day and evening elasses. taught by Mrs. Hofstetter Graham. Miss Agnes Selley and Miss Sue White: Typewriting. taught by Miss Eunice King and Miss Pearl Hobbs: Bookkeeping. taught by Miss Pearl Hobbs: Business English and Arithmetic, taught by Miss Helen Brown; Civil Service courses, taught by an in- struetor from Peabody College: English, taught by Mrs. Jordan Stokes. Jr .: French. taught by Mlle. Calusant and M. Robert; Spanish. taught by Miss Claudia Caranza; Home Management, taught by Miss Marian Oney; and Public Speaking. taught by Mrs. Harry Anderson.
The Y. W. C. A. service flag contained twenty-two stars in honor of members of the Nashville Association who were in foreign service. The members who served overseas in the Vanderbilt Unit "S" were:
Miss Catherine G. Sinnot. Miss Elizabeth Beal. Miss Iva Brogan. Miss Effie M. Buchanan. Miss Jennie Conry. Miss Jennie Denson, Miss Mattie Dew. Miss Annie Smith Eastland. Miss Bertha Greenwell, Miss Berenice Hall. Miss Sue Handley, Miss Katherine Jones. Miss Annie Joyner. Miss Mayme Merritt, Miss Alberta Mills. Miss May Shanahan, Miss Eula Shanahan, Miss Katherine Swager. Miss Beulah Taylor, Miss Lena Wakefield. Miss Fannie O. Walton. and Miss Mary Steadwell.
Through the Industrial Department of the Nashville Y. W. C. A., of which Miss Katherine Morris was chairman. Red Cross units were organized in several large
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industrial centers. These included the Volunteer Manufacturing Company and the Methodist Publishing House. A large number of girls from the various extension clubs of the association and the two boarding departments were enrolled in the Red Cross classes.
Knitting circles were formed in the Association and Annex building. and com- plete outfits for the soldiers were made at night by the girls who were employed during the day.
Classes were organized in which the most approved methods of canning. drving and preserving foods were taught by Miss Ada Field. of Peabody College, at Nash- ville. Members of these classes were volunteer instructors in the neighborhood canning demonstrations, which proved of inestimable value.
In June. 1917. a canning demonstration was given in the Warner Auditorium of the Y. W. C. A. by Miss Virginia Moore, leader of the Extension Department of the University of Tennessee. At a lecture given at the local Association on Food Con- servation by Dr. Francis Lund. in June. 1917. more than two hundred women were in attendance. In August. 1917. a demonstration of the making of war emergency bread was given by Miss Wessling. a government expert. In June. 1918. the Y. W. C. A. co-operated with the Food Administration in arranging a meeting in the Warner Auditorium for Dean Arnold. of Simmons College. at Boston. in the interest of food conservation. Mrs. Charles Caldwell. a member of the Association, was the Mash- ville Chairman of Food Conservation.
On May 16. 1917. Mrs. Aileen Tillman Mclaughlin. a former David-on County girl. gave a talk on her experiences as a nurse in the war hospitals in Italy and France before a large audience in the Y. W. C. A. auditorium. The flag raising on the roof of the Association building was an impressive and beautiful feature of the program. Miss Louise Mellenry served as chairman, and in the absence of Governor Tom C. Rve. Hon. Clyde Shropshire made an address. The Star-Spangled Banner was played as the large flag was unfurled by Misses Martha and Mary Wil- liamson. A handsome flag pole had been presented to the Nashville Y. W. C. A. bv Wade Kirkpatrick. The Nashville Railway & Light Company extended the courtesy of a special car to transport the First Tennessee Infantry from Camp Jackson for the ceremony.
In May. 1917. a committee was appointed by the Y. W. C. A. to request all women's organizations of Nashville to co-operate in creating sentiment to safeguard the moral- of the soldiers stationed at Camp Andrew Jackson. near Nashville.
In June. 1917. Misses Fell and Schofield. national representatives of the Father. Jess Children of France. made addresses at the Nashville Y. W. C. A. in regard to their work. and by request were furnished the name of the woman who could make the Fatherless Children of France organization a success in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. This woman was Mrs. Dempsey Weaver.
The Western Union Telegraph Company. of Nashville. Tenn .. equipped a room and furnished an instructor in war emergency work for more than a year at the Y. W. C. A .. in order to enable gils to prepare themselves for service in telegraph work. Miss Mary Pleasants Jones was chairman of several classes in telegraphv. A large number of girls availed themselves of this opportunity. Several of them became expert operators and rendered valuable service in war work of this character.
The Nashville Association co-operated with and assisted Mrs. Rogers Caldwell. president of the Girls' Patriotic League. This league was a junior branch of the National League for Woman's Service, of which Mrs. Jesse M. Overton was presi-
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dent. Miss Katherine Morris, chairman of the Industrial Division of the Y. W. C. A .. was instrumental in securing several thousand new members for the League, from all walks of life, thus making the Girls' Patriotic League one of the most democratic organizations in the county during the war.
SPECIAL MORALITY CAMPAIGN
In January. 1919, plans were made by the National Executive Committee of the Y. W. C. A. for a Social Morality Campaign. The meeting held in Nashville for the purpose of formulating plans for local co-operation was held in the Y. W. C. A. building on April 21. 1917. Mrs. John R. Wheeler presided and Dr. Sara Windsor, of New York City, made the principal address.
Mrs. Spencer McHenry was chosen chairman-general of the campaign. which began active work in Nashville on May 5, 1919. Many distinguished physicians from other cities were guests of the local committee, which arranged to have lec- tures delivered before all the schools and women's organizations in Nashville, stress- ing the importance to the county of education along the lines of social morality.
Mrs. McHenry's Committee For the campaign was composed of Miss Susie Mc- Whirter. Local Executive Committee: Mrs. Joseph T. Howell. Publicity Chairman. and the following members:
Miss Sara Scoggins, Mrs. Arch Trawick. Mrs. J. R. Wheeler, Mrs. Frank Searcy Green, Miss Mary Pleasants Jones, Mrs. Lemuel Campbell. Miss Addie Fuller, Mrs. Verner Moore Lewis, Mrs. Jennie Zarecor. Mrs. T. B. Agerton. Mrs. Robert Cheek, Mrs. Leo Schwartz, Mrs. Carey Folk, Mrs. George F. Blackie, Mrs. John Kreig, Mrs. Charles Eastman, Mrs. Reau Folk, Mrs. O. N. Bryan. Mrs. James Weakley, Miss Flora Gordon. Miss Adele Stamp, Miss Katherine Morris, and Miss Jennie Sparks.
A luncheon was arranged by Mrs. McHenry, at the local Y. W. C. A., as a com- pliment to three distinguished women who came to Nashville to assist in the cam- paign. These were Dr. Julia Schoenleber. of Ohio: Dr. Valeria Parker, of Con- necticut. and Dr. D. Kerr, of New York. The hospitality committee for the luncheon was composed of: Mrs. J. L. MeWhorter. Mrs. Arch Trawick, Mrs. Weaver Harris. Mrs. Sidney S. Crockett, Mrs. W. T. Hale, Jr., Miss Addie Fuller, Mrs. John Mc- Clure, Mrs. Sam Wilkes, Miss Susie McWhirter, and Miss Jennie Sparks. Following the luncheon, Dr. Parker delivered a lecture at the Centennial Club to the members of the Cotillion Club. the Red Cross Motor Corps and the Girls' Patriotic League.
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