The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01
GIRL in WAR WORK.
FOR FOUR YEARS
MISS MAY AWARD OF BOHEMIAN
WILL SOON BE BACK FROM
DUTY IN GERMANY
Believed to Have Had Longer Con-
tinuous Service With Army Auxi1-
iaries than Any Other American
Woman in Europe; Will Witness
Passion Play at Oberammergau.

After almost four years of con-
tinuous service with the American
army overseas, Miss Mary Award of
BOzeman, daughter of Mrs. E. F. AL
ward of Bozeman and Twin Bridges,
Will soon return to her home.
Miss Award, who is a graduate of
Chicago university, and who, prior
to her overseas work, taught school
in Montana, went to France with the
Y. M. G.. A. in December, 1918, and
upon her arrival in Paris was as
signed to leave area work in Luchon.
in the Pyrenees, where with some 10
other ~" girls she assisted in en-
PERTAINING the thousands of soldiers
who went to Luchon on leave.
With the closing of the leave areas
in May, 1919, Miss Award was as
signed to duty in Paris, first at the
Officers club and later at the "Y"
garden on the Faubourg st. Honore,
known to every soldier who passed
through Paris during those crowded
and exciting days of Homecoming.
she was IN charge of the information
desk and many and varied were the
questions she had to answer and the
90 IdilCu Ou ~ DCIlOfm.
These included the securing of opera
and theater tickets for soldiers and
sailors on leave in Paris, conducting
sightseeing parties to various places
of interest in the city and suburbs,
shopping and selecting gifts for
mothers, sisters and sweethearts of
the boys, planning trips through the
battlefields and other parts of France
and arranging train schedules, and,
most of the time just cheering up
homesick lads who did not know
what to do with themselves. The
"Y" garden was the last American
activity to close in Paris and Miss
Award was the ''Y'' girl who closed
in February, 1920, when she was
to Germany to work with the
American expeditionary forces there.
For a year she was one of the host
esses at the Festhalle, Coblenz, the
largest Y center in the American
occupied area, where hundreds and
sometimes thousands of soldiers con-
sregated daily for recreation and en-
tertainment. Her next assignment
was at the canteen at Mayen, the
largest "Y" hut outside of Coblenz,
the headquarters of the Fiftieth
infantry. Here she served six months
was then transferred to infan-
.ry barracks, Coblenz, Headquarters
If the Third battalion, Eighth infan-
ry, where she remained until the
irst of January, 1922. With such
connections, Miss Award was prob
bly, the best known "Y" girl in the
american are and extremely popu-
ar with the members of the Ameri-
an expeditionary forces in Germany.
he made quite a reputation for her !
elf as an interior decorator and her +
.uts were the showplaces of the area. L
With the breaking up of the forces :
n Germany and the closing of all
work, Miss Award planned
D return to the United States in
larch, but at the last minute was
reyailed upon to remain and supply
vacancy in the American school.
oblenz, which is conducted by the
rmy for the benefit of the children
f officers and other Americans liv-
in the area. She is now princi-
al of the school, which terminates :
une /. After an extended leave, dur =
lg which Miss Award will attend l
lie Passion Play at Oberammergau,
will return home on an army
'ansport.