The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-10-10
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DISABLED SOLDIERS
Former Kennewick Girl Writes
of Her Training at Reed Col
lege in Portland

Letters have come from many OF
Kennewick's boys who are at the front
or preparing for the front in the Army
and Navy training camps, but little
has been heard of the Kennewick girls
who have taken up war work. Mrs.
w. G. King has received a most in
teresting letter from Rosetta Hamilton
who has just finished course at Reed
College and who will devote her time
and efforts to help reconstruct the SOL
der boys who have sacrificed their
physical vigor in fighting for their
country. Miss Hamilton writes:
am not sorry came down here for
it is most fascinating. and worth while
work. Our course closed last week.
It was three months course, man.
aged by three of the most splendid
people I ever knew-Miss Macmillan
from Glasgow and latterly, Liverpool,
DIR. Beach, physician and gymnast in
southern army camps, and President
Foster, of Reed College. We had nine
or ten other specially fine instructors,
and if we never received appointments
we certainly gained enough from these
people to compensate for our time and
money.
The work is physical reconstruction
coupled with the psychic element. We
have massage corrective exercises,
gymnastic exercises and the use of
hot and cold water and electricity. So
many of our patients come with this
"down-and-out" expression, listless-
ness, nervousness and depression. Our
Ipsychologic training coupled with what
good sense we have enables us to first
lput the patients at ease and make them
cheerful, keep them cheerful and help
them want to get well. We work di-
lrectly with physicians and surgeons.
! Our practical experience here has had
to come from civilian life and men, wo-
linen and children come to us. We have
not patient who is not improving,
even paralytic and curvature cases.
Miss Macmillan is responsible for
knowledge in handling practical cases
and she surely is ahead of the methods
in this country. The physicians OF
Portland have opened their hearts
hospitals and practices to her. We
have been very fortunate. Just as the
French chateaus have been turned ovel
to the nation for hospitals, so the fin'
old Lewis home here was turned ovel
to Reed College for our clinic. 1t j!
lone of those beautiful big mansions
built at least fifty years ago. 1t is
lfull three-story house with a towe
room in addition, occupying a full
llock, with its lovely grounds, wild
idriveways, tall hedges and old-fash
Toned garden. The first two floors ar
fitted out with our equipment on tn
third floor are living rooms and bed
rooms for those who manage the clinic
This has been the most strenuou
and busiest summer have ever spen
:: Classes ran from o'clock in the morI
ing to $3.50 at night, every day br
Sunday. The work was well organi;
ed and well balanced, or we could M
have kept up the pace. Six OF us WEI
asked to remain here during tn
month and live at the clinic, hold
open and manage it. 1t was a golde
opportunity for more experience al
. when Pres. Foster asked me l Ju
jumped off my feet. Then this wei
when word came from Washington
mobolize one hundred aides for owe
lseas within month, Pres. Foster al
lDr. Beach evidently felt that the elm
could not be allowed to die out al
s asked two of the six to defer the owe
seas trip until February, remain ne
for the next four months, live here
this beautiful place, carry out the pr
gram here and assist in training Il
girls who come in October for the fs
Reconstruction course. This is gol
! en-er opportunity, because associate
in the clinic with Miss Macmillan al
DR.. Beach for four months place t
two of us in line for appointments
head aides.
Emmy Lou Vogel, a fine chorus lea
+ er, and I have gone over to Vancouy
IS and led chorus work for the soldie
every Wednesday night, to the Y.
| in the city on Saturday nights and
wish you could hear two or three tho
sand boys respond to Emmy Lou
leading. They would sing all night
- she would lead. I love to work WI
her. We get so much joy out of tn
sort of work and it gives us the o
portunity to become acquainted WI
the class of men we will meet owe