The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10

the humping of the train over the
raiis' but when people kept walking
amnesty back and forth and prac
tlcally stepping on us, we fo,,,o
mai 1t was more than We could
axe Because of lack of sometime
better to do, we began to sing our
school nonsense songs - the mem.
oers OF MINIS Glee club who know
III You'll Be My Rooster know
the type OF songs I mean. 500, we
mad everyone in the coach smiling
and listening in. And, real soon
thank goodness, people got off. 50
We all made a mad dash for the
vacant seats. we settled dow, for
the rest of the trip and finally
pulled into the Washington denot
completely exhausted but very aap'
py girls. p
Ihefe are no government hospi.
tails at home, SO maybe most of
you have forgotten about the hor.
ror OF war, Or have tried to make
yourselves forget. But here in DC.
the job for the fellas who served
mas Just begun. We are only a few
blocks from Walter Reed hospital.
and our services are asked quite
frequently. The Red Cross Motor
Corps calls for a certain number
OF girls every Wednesday, and we
60 to the hospitals and spend part
OF the afternoon with the boys.
Maybe some of them like to dance,
or Just sit around and talk to some
one, about home - and the ones
tney love. I was fortunate to be one
OF the five girls who went this past
week. We visited Forest Glen, a
branch of the Walter Reed hospi-
tai, and wouldn't have taken the
world for going. 1 was doing fine,
laughing and talking with the boys,
until a very young fella of about
nineteen walked over to me and
said, would you dance with
an amputee'? I knew it couldn't
been his leg because then he
couldn't dance. 1t was his right
arm. "Of course, 1 said, and 1
meant it. I hope that someday soon
III be chosen to go again and give
some of my time for the fellas that
have given so much.
Since l have been in DC, I have
mad the pleasure of seeing Gertrude
Lawrence in the outstanding Ber-
nard Shaw production, "Pgy-
mallon'. She was co-starred with
Dennis King, and they were won
derful. The staging was the most
realistic I have ever seen. Next
week | plan to see Walter Houston
in THE Apple of His Eye, so I'll
tell you about that later.
l guess you all back at MINIS
Will soon be getting ready to start
work on the ANNALS. Here at Web
ster we have already started hav-
Ing u pictures taken. Senior class
has chosen black Grapes while the
freshman, who also have indivi-
dual pictures, have chosen sweat
ers and pearls. If the annual staff
at home works as hard this year as
they did last, you'll have a year
book to be proud of, but the class
OF '46 set a mighty n-gn goal. see
what you of al can do.
Speech is one of the most i'm.
portant subjects taught here at
Webster, so the students who study
1t are given a chance to belong TO
the national speech sorority, Delta
Psi Omega. But, in order to quail
fly for membership, you must be-
long to the Web Wigs during your
freshman year. In the first meet
ing held this year, yours truly was
elected president, and it was really
one of the greatest honors I could
have received.
Halloween night in DC. was very
quiet, and I looked across the cam
pus thinking that all of you back
home must be having a super time.
But then, we always did have fun
''back home. So long.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Charles
announce the birth Of a daughter,
To-, Jo1o,, no4oho, 10 ~ Marian