History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . .^:i- In the Le Mans Area 19 SECTION II FORWARDING CAMP PERSONNEL A. K. JENNINGS Camp Secretary O. G. KELLOGG Business Secretary CHARLES O. PATE Activities Director L. G. HAYES : Religious Secretary THOMAS W. BAKER Financial Secretary J. R. ANDERSON Athletic Society HENRY T. BROWN - Athletic Secretary F. G. BALMOND Musical Director C. F. FRALEY. Athletic Secretary L. S. GILHAM Athletic Secretary HERBERT H. OREM Hut Secretary, Huts 3 and 4 DAFGIN SANDVED Secretary R. H. D. WHITE Secretary R. F. WROSELL ...Secretary Women Canteen Workers MAY PEABODY Direc
History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . .^:i- In the Le Mans Area 19 SECTION II FORWARDING CAMP PERSONNEL A. K. JENNINGS Camp Secretary O. G. KELLOGG Business Secretary CHARLES O. PATE Activities Director L. G. HAYES : Religious Secretary THOMAS W. BAKER Financial Secretary J. R. ANDERSON Athletic Society HENRY T. BROWN - Athletic Secretary F. G. BALMOND Musical Director C. F. FRALEY. Athletic Secretary L. S. GILHAM Athletic Secretary HERBERT H. OREM Hut Secretary, Huts 3 and 4 DAFGIN SANDVED Secretary R. H. D. WHITE Secretary R. F. WROSELL ...Secretary Women Canteen Workers MAY PEABODY Directress Marie Allen Helen Estee Frances Blackney Helen S. Green Lucile Butts Amy Greene Constance Crawford Mrs. Kate Greenlaw Caroline Emerson Mrs. Katherine Grinnell Hazerl Ohmert Marian Scott Elma C. Pratt Mrs. Emma Singleton Jane Rowson Olive Wliiley Marian Seely Elizabeth H. Wood 20 History of the Y. M. C. A. FORWARDING CAMP. N EXACT quotation from the Junior Post Chaplain ofForwarding Camp will explain wli} the history of theY. M. C. A. activities in this camp can be writtenonly in parallel with that of the operations ofthe Government. The Y. M. C. A. made every human effort to keep abreast of eachItridc made by the Government in the erection of this tremendous featof Armv operations—the Forwarding Camp. If one wonders whytlierp seems a minimum of showing of Y. M. C. A. operations duringtlie months of October, November and December of 1918, that onemust remember that the Government was housing its thousands of menon the rush to the front in their own pup tents. This was indicativeof one or both of two conditions; supplies for permanent buildingscould ]iot be Ji-id; ov the Government did not yet realize that the For-warding Camp 1ould be a permanent institution of tlie war, mucliless thai it would eventually grow into the big-gest and busiest campin France. And one must remember also that those were days
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