Letter from Frank N. Seerley to Edgar N. Smith (January 12, 1917)
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A letter from Frank N. Seerley to Edgar N. Smith written on January 12, 1917. In the letter, Seerley writes how so many of the boys had written at the same time and it was a great piece of news. He writes about a Bonnamaux and how he is alive despite not writing for a while. He concludes by saying how some are already excited for when the boys will come back. Frank N. Seerley graduated from the International Young Men’s Christian Association College in 1890 and began working at the college as an instructor in the same year. He served as a member of the Springfield Board of Education from 1896 to 1912. In 1907, he served as an official lecturer for the American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis. From 1917 to 1918, he gave lectures on sex hygiene in encampments for the War Work Council. After World War 1, he served as Dean of Springfield College from 1918 to 1934. Seerley was awarded the Tarbell Medallion in 1942. Edgar Nelson Smith (1892-1963) was born in Brediton, Ontario. He enrolled in 1914 at Springfield College but left in 1916 to join the YMCA work for the Canadian Troops during World War I. He died on May 19, 1963.
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