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Junior Red Cross
Our Red Cross Unit began the year with two beautiful gifts, one from Miss Edith Alellick, our Alumnte President, of $69.25, part of the pro­
ceeds of a recital that she gave at Lake Placid in August: and the other of $ 1 1 5 . 0 0 , that our Senior President had earned during the summer. Later the Alumnas League ga\ e us $100.00, which was a great boon. We added to these gifts in various ways. Some of us made and sold bags, some closed windows in the early morning, some gave a play, some helped with the waiting, some added largely to the profits of the pound, one, a Senior, contributed $25.00 from her Liberty Bond diviciends, others helped out of pocket-money. All this, together with gifts from grown-ups and our profits from the Fair, netted us $1,370.36 to date, so that we could spend $315.48 for materials and still have $45.00 for Christmas dinners for the poor, $36.00 for Pine Mountain, $50.00 for the Red Cross Shop, $12.56 for broth for influenza patients, and $800.00 for the Children’s
Ward.
In the fall we were \-ery busy with surgical dressings. Of these the
resident girls made the greater part, and we turned in 17,403 before Christmas, besides 370 influenza masks. After Christmas we made dress­ ings only at special request from Headquarters, and turned in only 4,008. But we knitted i 13 pairs of socks, 14 pairs of stockings, 39 sweaters, 2
pairs of wristlets, i helmet, 9 afghans, 3 stump socks, 13 pairs of bootees, made 10 pillows, 20 property hags, and 43 s handkerchiefs, and collected about 350 garments for Pine Mountain and the Belgians and the Plainfield
poor.
We also combined with the Seminary and Mount St. Mary’s, the
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Wardlaw School, the High School, and the North Plainfield Schools, and gave a course of lectures. They were most interesting and told us a great deal about the League of Nations, the Freedom of the Seas, the Rights
of Small Nations, and Industrial Politics. President Neilson of Smith
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