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Dec. 19,1917. WITH THE Y. M. C. A. AT CAMP HANCOCK FIVE FRENCH CLASSES STARTED Building 76 Provided Fine Pro gram During Week. Secretary Spahr Home on Visit. BUILDING No. 75. (Serving 107th and 108th Field Ar tillery, Ambulance Corps, Field Hos pital, Motor Truck Companies and the Field Bakery.) Building Secretary—R. A. Spahr, Sewickley, Pa. Religious Work Director —A. B. Cur ry. Jr., New York City. Physical Work Director —F. W. Pretchel, Lancaster, Pa. Educational Work Director —J. A. Brodhead, Cincinnati,.O. Assistant Secretary-—Harry P. Lunt, Williamsport, Pa. Assistant Secretary—Harry E. Bicks ler, Missouri- Cold weather, a cold building, but a full program for No. 75 during the week just closed. Somehow we have become resigned to the cooling, affec tionate atmosphere of the Sunny South. The cold snap found both 107th Field Artillery and 108th Field Artillery out on artillery firing range. The 108th came back to tamp in time for their great anniversary program on Tues day night in the building as per write up in last week's issue. The 107th, however, got a few days more on the range with rain, ice and cold. Dr. Bagnell, of Harrisburg, Pa., gave a stirring patriotic lecture on Monday night on the “Meaning of the War.” His presentation was very extraordi nary in every way and he received a great deal of applause. The government movies on the “Training of a Soldier” were shown in the building on Wednesday night to 108th Artillery men in two sections, and to’the Ammunition Train in a body on Friday evening. Thursday the Field Hospital Com panies, accompanied by theii’ band, heard Mrs. Henry C. Tinker, of New York City, speak on “Red Cross Work in France.” We regret to announce the loss of our genial building secretary, R. A. Spahr, who returns for an indefinite period to his home association at Se wickley, Pa. He expects to get back into army work later. The past week saw the setting up of a number of new French classes at Base Hospital, Field Artillery and Am munition Train, five classes in all, with an enrollment of 105, sixty of whom are officers. Harry L. Vincent, the new assistant secretary, is from New York state, near the Canadian border. Mr. Vincent is a prominent business man in Chaumont, named for a Frenchman many years ago. Mr. Vincent was in training for several weeks at the Officers’ Training Camp, Fort Niagara, but in the physi cal examination, it was found that he was overweight several pounds, as may be seen by his rotund appearance. He was determined to “do his bit” in some way and so we find him at Building 75 and on the job every minute. In W. T. F. Hill, the new building secretary, we have an experienced man who has seen service on the Mexican border. Mr. Hill is general secretary of one of the Pittsburg branches of the Y'. M. C. A. and is a hustler. He has been identified with association work for several years and the secretarial force at Building 75 is well equipped to meet the needs of th? men. Program for Week. Wednesday, 7 p. m.—Reserved for ad dress to corporals of Artillery Brigade. Thursday, 7:30 —Religious service. Friday, 7:3o—Motion pictures. Saturday—Open night. Sunday, 9:30 a. m.—Union regimental services, conducted at Y. M. C. A. by Bishop Reese, of Georgia. 7:30 p. tn. —Song service. Monday, 7:30 —Christmas eve entertain ment, Chaplain McFetridge in charge. Tuesday, 7:30 p .in. —Christmas celebra tion. Wednesday—Open. COLD SNAP PUTS CRIMP IN 76 ACTIVITIES Preparing Fine Christmas Pro gram. Holy Communion Ad ministered in Building. BUILDING NO. 76. Serving the 56th Brigade, including the 111th and 112th regiments of infantry. Building Secretary—J. Campbell Bran don, Butler, Pa. Religious Work Secretary—H. L. Adams, Dayton, O. Educational Director —F. A. Smith, Woonsocket, R. I. Physical Director —Thomas S. Hughes, Elizabeth City, N. C. Assistant Secretary—G. W. Veach, Lexington, Ky. Assistant Secretary—Euclid Mcßride, Nashville, Tenn. The cold snap of the past week sort of put a crimp on some of the activities at Building 76. The building felt more like the North Pole than the Sunny South. However, a fairly heavy program was car- TRENCH AND CAMP ADMINISTRATION STAFF Camp Secretary E. Tomlinson, Wilmerding, Pa. Camp Religious Work Director T. A. Wigginton, Nashville, Tenn. Camp Educational Director George B. Landis, Harrisburg, Pa. Associate Division Athletic Director Geo. R. Fleming, Williamsport, Pa. Camp Business Secretary R. P. Zebley, Philadelphia, Pa. Camp Musical Work Director a. L. Tebbs, Dayton, O. Camp Publicity Director J. Edgar Probyn, Altoona, Pa. Camp Accountant E. L. Butler, Greenville, S. C. Camp Stenographer Frank W. Shriver, Omaha, Neb. Camp Stenographer L. B. Atterbury, Jackson, Tenn. Camp Motion Picture Expert George Magarian, New York City. Camp Property Man P. A. McArthur, Augusta, Ga. Tied out. On Monday and Wednesday nights the Teacher Training Bible Class was held with a fair attendance. Tues day and Friday nights our usual moving picture program held the boards. Friday night program was enlivened the sing song conducted by Mr. leoos. At the mid-week religious meeting, held on Wednesday night, the boys all gath ered around the big stove and listened to a stirring message by Dr. Sawtelle. A most excellent program was rendered on Thursday night by the Eighth Regi ment Band under the able leadership o. David M. Clarke. In addition to the con cert, two vaudeville numbers by members of the band added to the enjoyment of all. These were given by Corporal Adams, who rendered several character soitgs in a pleasing manner, and Sergeant Cohen and Corporal Adams, who presented a very clever humorous sketch. The amateur night scheduled for Sat urday night was cancelled as there were not enough entries. This will be held, however, in the near future, when things warm up a bit. The Bible school and regimental service on Sunday morning were both well at tended and Chaplain Hall gave a gripping talk. On Sunday night Dr. Wiggington, camp religious secretary, gave a mighty finn address. Rev. Mr. Groton, administered the rite of Holy Communion to the members of the Episcopal church at 8 o’clock Sunday morning. It is easy to see that the Christmas Spirit is prevalent among the men of the 111th and 112th Regiments by the num ber of parcel post packages that are be ing sent out from this building every day. ft is hoped that the home folks win remember the boys as much as they are remembering them. The Christmas service at. this building will be held on Christmas eve and all the secretaries are now at work planning a program which will do justice to th< occasion. Full announcement of the ser vice will be placed on the bulletin board. Thursday and Saturdf.' nights will be open this week to give tne men who have not written home their Christmas letters a chance to do so. The secretaries of Building 76 are al ways open for interviews and they wouie consider it a privilege to confer w’th any man at any time regarding problems which he may have. Program. Wednesday—Religious meeting. Thursday—Entertainment Night. Fridav —-Motion Pictures. Saturday—Home Nght. Sunday—Religious services; addfess at 7:30 by Dr. D. W. Daniel, president ot Clemson College. Mollday—Debating Club. Tuesday—Motion Pictures. MAIL PILES OP AS Over 2,000 Pieces in One Day at Building 77. Men of the Unit Again Remembered By Their Godmother. BUILDING No. 7.’. (Serving Engineers, Signal Corps, Mil itary Police, Headquarters Com pany and Machine Gun Battalion).. Building and Religious Secretary— R. C. Dobson, S.t. Louis, Mo. Religious 'Work Director —F. E. Henry. Educational Secretary—Charles A. Lineback, Carthage, Ind. Business Secretary—W. E. Griffin, Augusta, Ga. Physical Director M. Colby, Marietta, O. Assistant Secretary —11. L. Vincent. That adminition “Don’t forget to write home,” doesn’t seem to be" needed in Building 77 as the holiday season approaches. If there is a cousin, aunt, grandmother, sister (or somebody else’s sister) or any other relative or friend that hasn’t Leen written to within the last fe» days, the secretaries of the building would like to know where they are. On Sunday over 2.900 pieces of mail were turned in by the men and they are still going strong. In the words of the man who made Battle Creek famous: “There’s a reason.” The building was again visited by its official godmother, Mrs. H. S. Tinker, of New York City, on Friday evening. In a simple, yet graphic manner, she told the story of some of the experi ences of her daughter who has been a nurse along the front “somewhere in France” and is now in Italy. The men showed the deepest interest in the nar rative and were very vigorous in their applause. Miss Baldwin, of Canada, again sang several numbers in her usual ver;- pleasing style, and she was unanimously selected by the men to be their godsister. Through the generos ity of Mrs. Tinker the audience was served with refreshments, consisting of ginger ale, grape juice, excellent jelly roll and candy. Dr. Sawtelle, of Scranton, Pa., gave a very fine address to the men on last Tuesday evening. The speaker “had a way with him” that completely won his audience and many have bec.i heard to say that it was ope of the finest ad dresses that they have ever listened to. Dr. Bagflell, of Harrisburg, delivered a lecture on "The Meaning of the War” on Wednesday evening and was well received by a good-sized audience. During the past week there have been large arrivals of men from various northern camps. They are now quar tered in the location formerly occupied by the Eighth and 'Thirteenth regi ments. Owing to the fact that they are under quarantine, this building has only been able to serve them by send ing them writing material, reading matter, games, etc. Preparations for Christmas week are well under way and every effort will be made to make Building 77 one of the cheeriest and cosiest places in camp .during the holiday season. A full pro gram of events for the week is now being arranged and the co-operation of men is earnestly solicited. The activities for this week have been somewhat curtailed in order to give the men an opportunity to do their necessary writing and mailing of packages. Program for the Week. Wednesday, 7:3o—Religious meeting for the week. Address by Rev. D. W. Daniels. Thursday, 7:30 —Movies, “Somewhere in Georgia.” Friday—Open house. Saturday—Open house. Sunday—Communion service, 8 a. m. Regimental service for Engineers, 9 a. m., for Headquarters, Signal Corps and Military Police at 10 o’clock. 2:30 p. m.—Bible class for all. 7:30 p. m. —Song service. CORPOBWES Y. M. C, A. ACTIVITIES Soldier from Ohio Endorses Work at Camp Hancock. “Great Help to Beys.” Lewis W. Spear, a corporal in Company F, 111th Infantry, in training at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., writes to The News-Herald of Conneaut, 0., an inter esting letter of his camp life. He speaks most emphatically of the excellent work done for the soldiers by the army Y. M. C. A. The letter is given below: Augusta, Ga.. Oct. 29, 1917. The Conneaut News-Herald, Conneaut, Ohio. I am writing a short letter this evening which I hope you will put in your paper so that the people back home wiil know something that is going on in Camp Han cock. There are about. 30,600 Pennsyl vania troops here. All you see is sol diers. We are drilling almost night and day, digging trenches, throwing hand gren ades, making bayonet charges’ on dum mies, jumping trenches and wire entan glements with fixed bayonets, drilling in close order and taking long hikes, ev erything to prepare us for the battlefields of France. We are to start on a hike Thursday at 1 o’clock p. m. and hike until mid night. It is a real nice country down here; it is real warm, except that some times at night it gets pretty cool. The soil here is very sandy. It can rain ever so hard and in 30 minutes it is all gone. We don’t know what mud is here. The Y. M. C. A. is a great help to the boys. They have a nice building where the bovs can go and write h ,me. They give them all the stationery they want free of charge. They have entertain ments of all kinds, such as moving pic tures, music, religious services and ev erything to help the soldier to live a clean upright, life. If there are any of our friends back home who want to help make their sol dier boys comfortable and help him to live a clean life, let them give them a few of their stray dollars to the Y. M. C. A I can’t say enough for the work that the Y. M. C. A. is doing for the soldier. Corp. Lew s W. Speer. Co. F, 111th Inf., Camp Hancock, Program For Building No, 78 Monday, Dec. 17, 7:00 —Current Events Talk (12 minutes). Tuesday. Dec. 18. 7:30 —Band Concert: “Fddie” Calhoun’s First. Cavalry Banc. Wednesday, Dec. 19—Volunteers wanted to get greens for decoration of building for Xmas wee.k. Will meet at building at 1:30 p. m. Movies at 7:15. Thursday, Deo, 20—Write that letter home to Mother?- She is waiting for a good, cheery Christmas message. Friday, Dec. 21—Mid-week service, with practice on Christmas carols. Dr. Daniels will lecture. Saturday. Dec. 22 —Moving Pictures. Sunday. Dec. 23—Bible Classes at 10:15; i Evening Service at 7:10. DR. PRICE ADDRESSES LARGE AUDIENCE Secretary Lineback Makes Hit With Character Impersona tions. Cold Interferes Serious ly- BUILDING NO. 79. (Serving 109th Infantry.) Building Secretary, C. H. Harring ton, N. J. Religious Director—Dr. Orlo J. Price, Lansing, Mich. Educational—Luther D. Miller, Greens burg. Pa. Physical—E. B. Peterman, Youngstown Ohio, Assistant— Frank R. Hean, Harrisburg, Pa. Assistant— Hubert N. Dukes, Sanders ville, Ga. Activities at Building 79 havj been hampered greatly the past week by the continued cold weather. It has been impossible to heat the building ade quately, but despite the discomfort, the men have crowded in to write and send their Christmas packages. The mail the past week has been un usually heavy and it is an assured fact that many wives, sweethearts and mothers will be gladdened when they open the boxes on Christmas morning. Secretary Dukes has been assigned to the artillery range for a few days and left Monday, to assist the men of Building 75, who are in charge of this activity. On Monday night, the government movies were attended by more than 3,000 men. It was necessary to show the pictui ?s four times in order to ac commodate the regiment. Following the government show, the regular weekly film was giver and pleased a crowded house. Educational Secretary Lineback, of Building 77, made a big hit on Tues day night before several hundred men. I with his excellent character imperson ations. Mr. Lineback is easily one of the cleverest men in Camp Hancock in this line and is a great acquisition to the secretarial force. Dr. Orlo J. Price, the new religious director, jave the address at the week ly service Wednesday night and his powerful message carried deep convic tion to the several hundred men pres ent. Dr. Price is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lansing, Mich, and «is a graduate of the University of Chi cago and the University of Leipsic. He has ti :en hold of the religious activi ties at 79 with great vigor and great results are anticipated. Thursday night, the usual movie pro gram was presented and Friday night was open night.'’ Mr. Tebbs was on hand Saturday night and even though the air was frosty, a number of the pion enjoyed the sing-song. If all is well, the men will be enter tained on Friday night by the Misses Rowland, of Augusta, and their friends. No program can be announced this week b ;ause of the unusual conditions prevailing. JACK FROST TOO MUCH FOR TENT 80 Work on Building Will Be Started Immediately. Tent Being Moved. TENT NO. 80: Serving 109th Field Artillery, 103rd Ammunition Train, Trench Mortar Battery and Base Hospital. Building Secretary—M. F. Haus mann, Erie, Pa. Physical Director —F. D. Sherwood, Nausau, Wis. Assistant Secretary—A. O. Germain, New York City. Assistant Secretary—W. H. Mcln tyre, Greensburg, Pa. The weather of the past week has been so cold and the old tent so cov ered with ice that we have had no ser vices or entertainments but have de voted our entire time to visiting the boys in their tents and at the base hospital. A number of interesting interviews were held and several decisions to lead a better life were made. Now that our new building is a thing of the very near future, we are ready to endure any hardships to has ten that time. , As the new hut will be built where the tent is now situated, we will prob ably move our tent and living shack across the street until the new quar ters are ready. We have no definite program for the coming week as the tent is without heat, but we are always ready to wel come any ot our boys and usually have a shack full every night. 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