Radcliffe College in France: scrapbooks compiled by Anna Eveleth Holman, 1917-1920

The Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, in June 1917 appointed a committee for war work and voted $1000 from its Treasury towards the $4000 to be raised. The committee members were Christina Hopkinson Baker '93, Chairman, Alice Natalie Jewett '02 and Katherine Munroe Day '14.

The War Fund Committee of Wellesley Alumnae planned to raise $30,000 to send a unit of eight women to northern France to help refugees return to their destroyed homes. They welcomed a Radcliffe representative on the unit. Dr. Augusta Williams G '92 N87-89, sailed to France in April 1918 as the Radcliffe representative on the Wellesley Unit for work among the refugees and repatries. She remained with the unit until after Armistice when she was put in charge of college women workers, American and French, under the American Red Cross in Paris. She was replaced by Catherine Huntington '11 as the Radcliffe representative. Huntington served for six months from Februrary 1919 with YMCA Canteen Service assisting with pageants and entertainment.

War work activities began to close down after the armistice, but the Vice-President of Le Village Reconstitue, appealed to Lucy Stockton '10, who worked as a motor driver of nurses and supplies, to encourage six American women to join them. Five Radcliffe women Hester Brown '16, Mary Burrage '14, Julia Collier '10, Anna Holman '14, and Katherine Shortall '12 joined this relief work. They were stationed in different areas, under the auspices of Le Village Reconstitue and the French Red Cross. Their duties varied: Holman spent her time at Buzy driving: helping to move sick people to hospital, delivering supplies to devastated areas; others worked with children, or as nurses' aides. Catherine Huntington having left the YMCA unit in November, 1919 organized a children's festival. The war work committee was disbanded in June, 1920, having executed its tasks nobly.