Fourteenth Conference of the War Work Secretaries For Overseas and Home Camps, October 1918
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A pamphlet titled "The Fourteenth Conference of the War Work Secretaries for Overseas and Home Camps," created in October, 1918. The document lists the faculty, lecturers and graduates who participated in the special intensive course to train YMCA War Secretaries for work over in Europe during World War I. The course was held on the campus of Springfield College in October 1918. The document also lists the profession before the war of each war secretary and what armed forces they were scheduled to work with. A photograph of the attendees and various pictures of the campus. There is also a forward written by Arthur Rudman about the work and a poem called "The Springfield Ideal written by Webster Earl Smith. The training of war work secretaries and physical education directors were important contributions to the war effort by Springfield College. The YMCA provided canteen services at the invitation of the US government and raised more than 150 million dollars (equivalent to 2.7 billion dollars in 2014) in order to comply with the request. This kind of work was not new to the YMCA which provided similar services during the Spanish American War. This item was original bound in a book titled “War-Work Courses in Great War, 1917-1918 Incomplete.” This volume was unbound and its contents foldered in the original order, which is chronological. The binding string was cut and the glue was removed with a razor blade. The edges are intact and the placement of stitches are visible. Each page or booklet was individually lifted out of the binding and placed in their own folder or a folder with like materials. Oversized materials were removed and placed in the oversized materials collection.
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