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IIR school has the honor of being the first private school in the country to heconie enrolled as an auxiliary of the Junior Na­
tional Red Cross.
In regard to dressings, our jjrincijjal’s motto has been “Few but
Perfect”; nevertheless, we have attained our goal of contributing at least a thousand dressings each week. Even the little children are working, and we have them to thank for om* many well-filled fracture pillows. The older girls fold gauze, and fussy and monotonous work it is. All our members are very faithful, and we all feel that however much we can do is hut a dro\]) in the bucket of what we should like to do.
Report of tlje ^artritise ^tfjool Suxiltarj*
Sfnnior f^eit Crosisf Se\])temher 2 0 , 1917, to April 15, 1918
Articles M ade and D onated
Surgical dressings wrajjped and stamped ............................................... ‘'29,156 Knitted garments for soldiers................................................................... 60
Knitted afghan............................................................................................. 1
Knitted scpiares............................................................................................. 280 Ambnlance pillows....................................................................................... 35
A rticles D onated
Books for soldiers....................................................................................... 60 Garments sent Belgian Committee.......................................................... 100 $50.00 worth of garments for the j)oor of Plainfield
Cash D onated
For the Halifax Sufferers............................................................................$25.00 Christmas dinners for the \])oor of Plainfield.......................................... 50.00 For the Pine Mountain School, Kentucky.............................................. 10.00 For the Vassar Unit .................................................................................... 100.00 Endowment of 2 beds in the Children’s Ward in Muhlenberg Hospital
for 1918..................................................................................... . . . . . . . 100.00 Purchase of 2 electric bassinets, complete, for the Children’s Ward . 200.00 Easter gift to the Children’s Ward ...................................................... 400.00
Cash expended to date........................................................................................$1517.28 Cash on hand....................................................................................................... 656.31
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