Evening star., 1922-11-26
CHRISTMAS WORK.
Eastman School Girls t<
Send Boxes Abroad.

i humming with the activities of
the girls doing Red Cross work
to prepare Christmas boxes for the
where they sent boxes last year. The
girls inauguratCd the custom of CIV
ing up their Saturdays to sewing to
prepare these boxes of clothing and
other gifts. yesterday. All of the girls
of the intermediate and primary
classes, as well as the older girls and
alumnac Of the school. are doing their
bit to fill these boxes Of cheer for
less fortunate girls.
Many of the little girls doing knit
ting are only five and six years old.
yet their work is just as well done as
the older ones knitting. and the lit
tie, dimpled fingers rimbly fy with
their. knitting needles while balls of
yarn turn mcrrily in protective Gre
tonne bags-just like mother has. The
girls also knit garments for Walter
Reed Hospital soldiers, and last year
made 1000 surgical bandages for local
hospitals.
The added impetus given to this
work in its annual resumption last
week reminded Miss Annie Eastman.
principal of the school. of the really
notable work done during and after
the war by some of the former stu
dents of the school. few of whom
are still engaged in lines they under
took in that time of need. OF course.
every one in the school volunteered
her services in the ordinary channels
open at the beginning of the emer-
gency, but small group specialized
in it to a marked extent.
Miss Mary Walker. graduate of
the school, went into training for war
nursing and upon receiving her dtplo-
ma beca a registered professional
nurse. She is surprisingly young to
have had all the experience which fell
to her lot in wartime. She has serv-
ed in private hospitals. children's hos
pitfalls. the marine hospital in New
Orleans, government hospitals in Chi
cago, hospitals in Bordeaux, France.
for several months, in charge of
health of girls at the Lucy Cobb
School in Athens. Ga. and now
supervisor of the physical fitness of
the girls attending the College for
Women in Greensboro. \. c. And with
all this. she is still in her twenties
Miss Matilda Rice Is really the East
man star at Red Cross work. as she
now holds the only salaried position
given an American girl with the Red
Cross headquarters in Paris. France.
She came to Washington TO attend Miss
Paul. Senator Rice, whose statue is in
the Hall of Fame in the Capitol. was
her grandfather. Miss Rice graduated
from the local school in 1912 and then
took business course at Strayer's Busi-
ness College. She is a linguist and
NJ
her business course. she accepted a po-
sition in Olean. n. Y, with a law firm.
and was appointed assistant fuel ad-
She later returned to
Washington and went to the Walter
Reed Hospital as a reconstruction aide.
Her special work was to instruct classes
of disabled soldiers in the use of the
typewriter.
Mrs John Forsythe Joline of Phila-
delphia Alice Key Pendleton
lowing her graduation from the East
man School. studied art at the Corcoran
school and received honorable mention
for her work. She then went to the
Academy of Fine Arts in
1913 and spent four years there. where
she won a prize in local exhibition of
pictures. At the outbreak of the war
she came Immediately to Washington.
The call upon individuals for patriotic
response was particularly keen to her
USCduSe ucI StdHuldSuSI, TdICiS oCOtl
Key, wrote "The Star Spangled Ban
ner." our national anthem. Mrs. Joline
enjoyed the privilege of being the first
American girl to be sworn into the re-
aide service. In 1920 she
became assistant to the designer of the
New York state commission for the
blind
Miss Julia Frances Brice. her sis
ter. who graduated from the East
man School in 1913, followed her sis
ter ir securing a position as an aide
in occupational therapy work and en-
gagged in it at Walter Reed Hospital
in 1918. She was ordered from
Walter Reed to the Army hospital
at Plattsburg, special neuropsychiatric
hospital. She resigned from mill
tary service in June, 1919. The
following fall she accepted a po-
sition at St. Elizabeth's Hospital as an
assistant In the organizing Of handi-
craft work there. A large workshop
was established. A year later she
was transferred to the Shepherd
Pratt Institute, near Baltimore, Md,
where she did similar work for war
shocked men.
only representative from this school
in the Motor Corps work.
With the record of this group of
leaders in such work. 1t is no wonder
that the girls now attending Miss
Eastman's school are willing to give
up their Saturdays to make their bit
in this Red Cross work such a splen-
didly large bit. -e-