The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-04-12
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
 THE LATE MISS FOODS

| MISS WOuS was nelQ III ot. fHllp church Sunday evening. The memo rial address was delivered by Rev H. P. Corser, the rector, and was in part as follows :
 Speaking of Miss Woods life and and work is in one sense an easy task. Oftentimes when one is called upon to write an eulogy, he has to be careful to select the proper things because it would not do to tell the whole truth, but in referring to the life of Miss Woods it is far different. Here the problem is to give a com plete picture of her life, for every act ofShers resounds to her praise.
 ''It will be our purposeto speak of her work as teacher and intellec- tual leader, of her as a Christian leader, and of her influence and of her character as a Christian.
 Miss Woods received her early l lcuuCdtlOu III ol. I1ClSu I1dll III Portland, and there worked her way through school, and always there at every public function, she was an honored guest. Her career as teacher in Oregon was most success full. She had the ability to make the most difficult subjects interesting I Tho nf fhio iS auidnnf Whon she took hold of a subject she did not regard herself as having master ed it until she had learned it so thoroughly that she could tell it to others. When she had explained, one felt that everything had been said that could be said and that nothing unnecessary had been said. The req son of the thing was most clear, and so the most careless pupil felt that when she taught he was receiving worth while. One lad whose career had made him a problem was warn ed that he must not be disorderly with her, and he replied : Do you suppose that I could be mean to q teacher like Miss Woods 9
 ''In her preparation for her life work. she does not appear to have ever been afflicted with what af- flicts so many young people, and can find no better term to describe it than to call it the reading disease There are those who read every thing that comes their way, the good. bad and indifferent. They read and read and read, and no one is bit the wiser Such people avoid books that would make them wiser. Anything that requires any intellectual effort to understand, they pass by as something beneath their notice. Usually with such people, each book that they read is a little more worthless than the one taht they read before. Shakespeare and Milton to them are closed books. The most brilliantly written histo- ries are all bunk. They are so tame and insipid. How different it was with Miss Woods! Everything that pertained to mankind was of interest to her. We all rightfully looked upon her as an authority on Shakespeare.
 Now as to Miss Woods as a Christian worker. Wherever Miss Woods was she was the life of the church. Her girls church school class was ideal. There was manifest ed on the part of her pupils that quiet and industrious interest which served to build up the character of all
 "She had the ability to look through people and to find the good there, and people tried to live up to her estimate of them.
 Miss Woods personally believed that Christian work extended to ev- cry department of life. So many say: Oh, if I had riches, how much l could do for mankind She was not of that kind. Before we had the gymnasium here she was one of the very few who saw the need of it and had the faith to believe that it could be done. Most people reasoned Here is little church with a hand full of members and what can it do with such an undertaking?' But the need of such an undertaking was there and she had the spiritual insight to say that it must be done and she began to help in every prac- tical way possible to collect money for that purpose. The fact that she worked as she did made it easy for others to give of their time and en. ergy. When the people saw that il was possibility. they were glad to join in and give as we'll as she } had been giving. The result was l