War-Camp Community Service Club No.3
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War-Camp Community Service Club No.3
Description
War Camp Community Service Club No. 3 is still keeping time to the busy melody of “Work.” Aside from the usual attractions, dancing, games and stunts, war camp community singing is introduced weekly into the public schools by members of the music committee of the club. The Birney and the Payne were the public schools recently visited. Prof. Lew really knows how to teach the young folks to sing. All of the popular camp ballads are sung.
The first anniversary of the Do-Your-Bit Council was the most be-fittingly celebrated at the residence of Mme. Anna Lee Slade, when the War Camp Community Service Club No.3 had fourteen soldiers who had just returned from overseas to dinner. An enjoyable time was had; music was furnished, and the young men were taken on an automobile ride through the parks of the city. Automobile parties for the soldiers are regular features of the week’s program at the club, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, representing the division of girls’ work, leaving no stone unturned for the good of the soldiers.
The members of the class in recreational leadership, recently graduated, tendered a mammoth surprise reception to one of their number--Miss Julia Davis--who is to leave for Hampton Institute, Va., where she will engage in summer work. Favors were distributed; there was music, and the young folks enjoyed several dances. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton recited a poem, “Good-Bye.” Refreshments were served. A silver bag was presented to Miss Davis as a token of good will.
The class in recreational leadership is making good. Members of the class give frequent demonstrations of their class work, and “games and stunts,” a part of the course, has become a feature of the entertainments. The class in dramatics and dramatic acting is interested, and that actively, in the coming Fourth of July peace celebration, the workers planning to present a pageant at that time.
Conferences are held often at the club, having for their object the placing of soldiers in suitable employment. The same spirit of cooperation is manifest in this as in all else that has the betterment of the soldier at heart. War Camp Community Service seeks to extend aid where it is most needed. Helping the soldier to change from one kind of a service to another -- a change from a service called by drumbeats of war to the soft chanting strains of “Peace. Perfect Peace.”
The first anniversary of the Do-Your-Bit Council was the most be-fittingly celebrated at the residence of Mme. Anna Lee Slade, when the War Camp Community Service Club No.3 had fourteen soldiers who had just returned from overseas to dinner. An enjoyable time was had; music was furnished, and the young men were taken on an automobile ride through the parks of the city. Automobile parties for the soldiers are regular features of the week’s program at the club, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, representing the division of girls’ work, leaving no stone unturned for the good of the soldiers.
The members of the class in recreational leadership, recently graduated, tendered a mammoth surprise reception to one of their number--Miss Julia Davis--who is to leave for Hampton Institute, Va., where she will engage in summer work. Favors were distributed; there was music, and the young folks enjoyed several dances. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton recited a poem, “Good-Bye.” Refreshments were served. A silver bag was presented to Miss Davis as a token of good will.
The class in recreational leadership is making good. Members of the class give frequent demonstrations of their class work, and “games and stunts,” a part of the course, has become a feature of the entertainments. The class in dramatics and dramatic acting is interested, and that actively, in the coming Fourth of July peace celebration, the workers planning to present a pageant at that time.
Conferences are held often at the club, having for their object the placing of soldiers in suitable employment. The same spirit of cooperation is manifest in this as in all else that has the betterment of the soldier at heart. War Camp Community Service seeks to extend aid where it is most needed. Helping the soldier to change from one kind of a service to another -- a change from a service called by drumbeats of war to the soft chanting strains of “Peace. Perfect Peace.”
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Publisher
Washington Bee
Date
1917-7-14
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N/A, “War-Camp Community Service Club No.3,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 25, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/468.