Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-16
NORWICH MEETING RAISES
 S72s.9a FOB ORIENT COT

A community mass meeting in Slater hall Friday evening, with an attendance of over 300, raised by contribution $726.92 in the appeal for the "woman's Union Christion Colleges of the Orient"
 Dr. B. T. Marshall, president of Con- necticut college, presided, and an impres- sive address was made by Dr. Ida Scud- der, president of Union medical school for women at Vellore, India, following which pledge cards were distributed. Dr. Marshall announced the amounts as fast as the cards were brought to the platform by the ushers. Included in the pledges were two for $100, seven for $25, eight for $10, about 35 for $5, with numerous smaller ones, besides some cash that was put into the collection plates.
 Tlee address was preceded by Christ mas carols sung by double quartette and by pageant, The Lighting of the Christmas Candles, which gave in graphc form, through the dialogue, the appalling need of Christian college work for women of the Orient which the work of the American women will count for so much The following was the cast, each in cos. tune of the country she represented:
 The Voice Mrs. Harry Ward Spirit of Christmas Mrs. J. L. Taylor |, Tokyo Student Miss Elizabeth F. Fuller Peking College Students
 Mrs. Philip Johnson Peking Medical Student
 Mrs. ozias Dodg, Ginling Student ~.. Mrs Walter N. Buckinehaz i Lucknow Student
 Mrs. Edward J. Graham Madras Student Mrs. Allyn L. Brow1 l Vellore Medical Student
 1 Mrs. James D. Rougl 1 The quartette renring the Christina carols comprised:
 1 Sopranos, Mrs. Charles Tyler Bard, Mrs | Frederick Carey; conrralto, Mrs. Curti Bernard, Mrs. A. N H. Vaughn; tenor i Arthur Blackledge, George Turner; bass
 J. Todd Hynd, William A. Lund.
 Dr. Scudder's effective appeal for Nor
 wich to do its part in helping to rais
 the balance of S2,00o, 900 by the first O January in order to clinch a Rockefelle gife of $1,0O0,000 was listened to wit
 deep interest by her audience.
 Dr. Scudder comes of a family tha has given 1000 years in the foreign mis sion field. She told, her audience tha $1 100000 of the S2,000,0 900 has aIread been assured and that the present effor is to make sure the balance of $s00,00C
 The sum of S100 will furnish a room i a memorial school, $1.000 will build
 memorial room, $10,00o will build building. She told the story of how sh heard and responded to the call to tn foreign mission field and she declare that educating the women of India wi save that country, for it is the bigote old women who are the curse of tn lives of the women of India-child wive, child widows, and temple girls. All thre are responsible for terrible conditions C f sin and degradation for the women c ithe Orient
 | The ushers at the meeting were MT. 1 George A. Ashley, Mrs. Carl W. Brow7
 Miss Rosslie Bennett, Miss Elsie Bogu,
 Miss Louise Howe, Mrs. Archibal Mitchell Jr., Mrs. Archibald Mitchell
 4th, Mrs. William H. Oat, Mrs. Shepar B. Palmer, Mrs. Albert H. Riese, Mis-, Pauline Mather, Miss Rose Trumbull. The committee in charge comprise
 Mrs. Henry T. Arnold. Mrs. George 4
 Ashley, MrS- Gurdon F. Bailey. Mir
 Charles T. Bard, Mrs. William Fl. Batl Miss Jennie L. Case, Miss Charlotte Gu
 liver, Mrs L. A. Hurlbut, Mrs. Ale
 Latham, Mrs. Frederick W. Lester, Mis Elizabeth F. Pullen, Mrs. David A. Pit
 Mrs. James D. Rough, Mrs. A. N. E
 Vaughn, Mrs. Herbert Warrington.