(Miss), of New York City sailed April 22, 1922, and was assigned to the Caucasus. Returning to Constantinople in June, 1922, she did temporary recreational work for the orphanages there and after Smyrna aided in the transfer of many children to Athens. Miss Strode may be addressed care Miss Mildred Strode, Continental and Commercial Bank Building, Chicago, Ill.
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William A. Stoltzfus
of Lima, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pa., crossed in the “Pensacola,” leaving New York, January 25, 1919. He was stationed at Beirut and Sidon and came back to America, August 18, 1920. E is now a missionary to the Mohammedans at Nabateyeh, Lebanon, Syria.
Ethel M. Lecke Stoltzfus
(Mrs. Wm. A.) of the “Leviathan” group and was stationed at Shuf and Sidon. She left for America in July, 1920, and went back on August 10th. Now married to William A. Stoltzfus, she is living in Syria. She may be addressed caret he Presbyterian Board of Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Judson A. Smith
of Boston and Cambridge, Mass., sailed as above and took charge of the Konia Hospital where there had been no American physician since 1917. Dr. Smith re-organized building and equipment, cared fro adult and orphanage patients and ran a clinic for the city poor. He and Mrs. Smith returned, May, 1920. Address as above.
Hildegard Smith
(Mrs. Judson A.), of Cambridge, Mass., sailed with her husband, Dr. Smith, on the “Leviathan” and went on with him to Konia, where she did hospital and orphanage work. The permanent address of Dr. and Mrs. Smith is 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Mass., but at the moment they are in Los Angeles, Cal., where they may be addressed, 900 Wildwood Trail.
Harriet A Smith
(Miss), of Boston, Mass., made one of the nursing force on the “Leviathan.” Stationed at Urfa she was in charge of the orphanage clinic throughout the hostilities and until June, 1920 when she left Constantinople for America. Her address is 52 Westland Avenue, Boston, Mass. She is connected with the Massachusetts State Department of Public Welfare.
Carleton T. Smith
of Massachusetts, sailed on January 16, 1919, and was assigned to Adana where he served as laboratory worker at a time when the hospital was packed and the clinic was giving between 2,500 and 3,000 treatments a week. He came home May 27, 1920, and may be addressed 14 Webster Street, West Newton, Mass.
Belle B. McMichael Smith
(Mrs.), registered from Erie, Pa., when, as Miss McMichael, she enlisted with Near East Relief and started overseas on February 16, 1919. She was stationed at Mardin where she was in charge of the children’s orphanage. She returned July 9, 1920. Mrs. Smith is now living at 2993 Whitney Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Helen H. Small
(Miss), of Maine, made one of the “Leviathan” party and went to Hadjin, where she was in charge of the orphanage during the siege. She went on to Adana, whence she transferred 600 orphans to the Island of Cyprus. From Adana, she was transferred to Harpoot where she stayed a year, and sailed for the States in early August, 1921. Miss Small may be addressed at Yarmouthville, Maine.
Jeanne Sloan
(Miss), of Clarion, Pa., enlisted with Near East Relief in Egypt, was assigned to the Aleppo Area and was in charge of the Rescue Hope of Aleppo. She served at Mardin and was at Diarbekir from April, 1920, until July 27, 1920. Then she traveled for two years, reaching America in August, 1922. Her address is 1250 Main Street, Clarion, Pa.
Clayton M. Skinner
of Massachusetts, signed with Near East Relief in Paris and was sent as Store Manager to Erivan. There and at Kars and Aled he worked shifting supplies as Turks or “Bolos” were uppermost in power. Being so unfortunate as to be attacked by trachoma he went to the Trachoma Hospital in Constantinople for treatment, coming out with the party that left the Caucasus after the removal of the Kars orphans to Alexandropol. Mr. Skinner came home in July, 1921. His address now is 1307 Borden Building, 350 Madison Avenue, New York City.
Helen Shultz
(Miss), of Reading, Pa., was one of the “Leviathan” group of nurses. She served in Marash during the perilous days when the American buildings were under fire and came home May 23, 1920. She is now doing private nursing in Reading, Pa., her address being 155 No. Front Street.
Evelyn Trostle Shuder
(Mrs. H. A.), of Kansas, as Miss Trostle, sailed away on July 1, 1919. Assigned to Marash she went through the exciting experiences of the long siege in 1920. She returned September 16, 1920. Mrs. Shuder is now attending to her duties as a housewife, her address being 159 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J.
Louise Reed Sherman
(Miss), of Massachusetts, went overseas on the “Trafford Hall,” February 23, 1919. She worked in the Beirut Area at Tripoli and returned to America June 18, 1920. She is now traveling for her health but may be addressed, Newtonville, Mass.
Constance Sheltman
(Miss), of Louisville, Ky., started on November 10, 1920, for Constantinople where she was made Director of the Industrial Department. She did a service to both Armenians and Ottoman Greeks in keeping alive many of the traditional stitches and patterns in embroidery and weaving such as those of Demirdash and Broussa. She installed the weaving department at Ismid. Under her management thousands of refugee women have made a living for themselves and their children by their handiwork. Miss Sheltman reached the States December 21, 1923, and is now in Louisville, Ky. (2227 Alta Avenue), where she is speaking in behalf of Near East Relief.
Roberta K. Sharp
(Miss), of Canada and New York City, was one of the nursing members of the “Leviathan” party. After serving in Smyrna she went to Constantinople and was transferred to the Red Cross for work for Russian refugees at Proti. Miss Sharp is now Nurse in Charge at Wells College in Aurora, N. Y.
Myrtle O. Shane
(Miss), of Columbus, O. who had endured the troubled days at Bitlis as an American Board Missionary, sailed on the “Leviathan” and undertook executive duties at Alexandropol. She was one of those who remained in the Caucasus after the fall of Kars in October, 1920. She took no holiday from her work until after two and a half years’ most valuable service until the early winter of 1922. At that time she was released from the organization and again took up missionary activities. She is now serving at a missionary school at Salonica.
Blanche Scribner
(Miss), of Lansing, Mich., started overseas June 24, 1919. She was assigned to Sivas where she remained until April, 1920, when she went to Constantinople and was re-assigned to Ismid to act as accountant. In September she took charge of the Inquiry and Relief Department at the Constantinople Headquarters and in October sailed for the Caucasus. There she served at Erivan and then was transferred to the Finance Department at the Tiflis Headquarters. Thence she went to Alexandropol in September, 1922. May, 1923, found her en route for America. She is now occupied as accountant for the Marquette Products Company and is living at the Hotel Nelson, Hoquiam, Washington.
Harry B. Salmon
of St. Johnsbury, Vt., sailed January 25, 1919. He worked at Derindje where the early supplies were gathered and later at Oulou Kishla. He sailed for the States September 8, 1919. His present address is Northfield, Vt.
Imogene Ryan
(Mrs. J. Clyde), of Muncie, Indiana, crossed as above and worked with her husband as a relief helper at Trebizond. Return and address as above.
J. Clyde Ryan
of Muncie, Indiana, was a member of the “Leviathan” party. Stationed at Trebizond he served actively in the turmoil of this busy station. March 3, 1920, found him again in the Unite States. His address is 300 East Highland Avenue, Muncie, Ind.
Beulah K. Rust
(Mrs. Marlon F.), of Indiana and Kentucky, sailed August 20, 1921, arrived in Beirut September 20, 1921, and was billeted to Aleppo in October. There she and her husband worked with the great influx of refugees from Cilicia. Early in 1922 they were both assigned to Erivan where they handled the reconstruction-relief—the remaking of roads, irrigation systems and so on by refugees—and the orphanage work among especially delicate children. In September 1922, she went to Tabriz, Persia. January, 1924, found her once again in the United States, where her address is Shelburn, Indiana (Care R. W. Lane).
Anna E. Rothrock
(Mrs.), crossed on the “Leviathan” as the head of the nursing force of Near East Relief and was stationed at Constantinople where she became was became Superintendent of the American Hospital at Stamboul. This hospital developed a well-organized training school for native nurses. Transferred to the Red Cross, Mrs. Rothrock worked with the Russian refugees on the island of Proti. She is now doing hospital social service for the South Side Hospital, South 20th Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Minnie C. Robinson
(Miss), of Toronto, Canada, and New York City, sailed November 5, 1919. Sent to the Caucasus she worked in the Erivan district, where she was transferred to Constantinople where she was Ward Supervisor in the Stamboul Hospital. In June, 1920, she was on duty in Constantinople with the Red Cross. She may now be addressed 27 London Street, Toronto, Canada.
Genevieve J. Robb
(Miss), of New York City, joined the nursing personnel of Near East Relief that sailed on February 16, 1919. She was stationed at Adana. She left for America via Mersine, March 13, 1920, reaching home May 30. Miss Robb is now Supervising Nurse of the New York State Department of Health, her address being 229 East Main Street, Walden, N. Y.
Ernest W. Riggs
(Rev.), of Brookline, Mass., went across on September 9, 1920, as Child Welfare Director for all the Near East Relief Areas. Owing to disturbances in the Caucasus and Anatolia his work was confined to Syria and Constantinople. In those areas he worked out educational plans, prepared textbooks, established a summer school for orphanage teachers, planned a balanced diet for the children and made various valuable recommendations for further training. He returned to America September, 1921. He may be addressed care the American Board of Foreign Missions, 14 Beacon Street, Boston Mass.
Lyman G. Richards
of Fall River, Mass., joined the medical personnel on the “Leviathan” February 16, 1919. He was stationed at Smyrna with Dr. Pratt and Dr. Bell working in the hospital and the clinics until about October first, when he returned to America. He may be addressed care Dr. George L. Richards, 124 Franklin Street, Fall River, Mass.
Marcella Katherine Flynn Rice
(Mrs.), of Pennsylvania, as Miss Flynn, was another member of the nursing personnel of the “Leviathan.” She was stationed at Sivas in charge of the operating room at the hospital. She returned to the States June 29, 1920, and now as Mrs. Rice, is living at 2424 W. Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia.
Margaret Reid
(Miss), signed with Near East Relief in France and was assigned to Homs where she acted as Matron to the Orphanage. In the autumn of 1920 she and Miss McIntyre went up to Marash. There she served as Quartermaster and Superintendent of the Industrial Department until the middle of April, 1921, when she went out through Aleppo. She reached home June 2, 1921, and is now teaching history in Portland, Oregon (636 East 21st Street).
Kate Clough Rambo
(Mrs. W. E.), See above.
Peter N. Prins
of Holland, Mich., signed with Near East Relief in Constantinople in 1921 and went to Rodosto as Director of the farm experiment that develop so well for the refugees until the deportation sent them trekking into Greece. In the Spring of 1922 he was transferred to Sivas where he aided in handling the terrible situation in that interior station. He returned to the United States in November, 1922, and is now a salesman in Holland, Mich., his address being 18 East 16th Street.
Leila Fanny Priest
(Miss), of Detroit, Mich., left the United States on March 16, 1920, for nursing work. Failing to be able to remain in the Caucasus because of troubled conditions she was sent to Ismid. There she and Miss Passmore did heavy medical and refugee work until the coming of Dr. Elliott, who took over the medical duties, and of Miss Strowger, who concentrated on the refugees, left the two nurses free to devote themselves to the hospital situation. Reaching the Caucasus at last Miss Priest served at Erivan and Alexandropol (Polygon) until her release in July, 1923. She reached America October 19, 1923. She is now engaged in Public Health work in Detroit, Mich., her address being 503 Fine Arts Building.
Edna S. Pratt
(Mrs. Armstrong C.), did relief work in Karaklis and came to the States as above.
Armstrong C. Pratt
of New York City was a member of the medical personnel of the Near East Relief that crossed in the “Leviathan.” He was attached to the Unit sent to Smyrna which left Derindje with its hospital and laboratory equipment on April 10, 1919. He assisted in the difficult task of setting in order the old Turkish hospital in a part of which the American hospital was opened. Then he was sent to the Caucasus and stationed (July, 1919) at Karaklis. He returned to New York, March 22, 1920, and is now living in Gallup, New Mexico.
Wilfred M. Post
of Princeton, N. J., who had experience as a medical missionary both in Turkey and Constantinople since 1903, took up work for the Armenian and Syrian Relief organization, the forerunner of Near East Relief, in 1918, and has been a the service of the organization since then at several times of emergency. For example, he was working with Miss Cushman’s orphans in June, 1922. At the time of the Smyrna disaster he was asked by Near East Relief to go at once to Smyrna and take charge of the medical situation. During the following month he surveyed the sanitary conditions at the Rodosto farm experiment colony. Aiding in the transfer of orphans from Anatolia he took a shipload of them to the island of Euboea in February, 1923, and is now in charge of the American Hospital in Constantinople.
George T. Pomeroy
of California, sailed on the “Pannonia” on November 22, 1919, and was sent to Samsoun. With this Black Sea port the chief outlet for Anatolia, there was heavy hospital work to be done in addition to a thousand clinic patients a month. Dr. Pomeroy reached New York City May 22, 1921, and is now living in Burbank, Calif., P. O. Box 124.
Mabelle Charlton Phillips
of Plainfield, N. J., and New York City, was a member of the Wellesley Unit that crossed on the “Leviathan” and was assigned to the Constantinople Area. She did case work in Constantinople as chairman of the Case Work Committee. She aided with the care of the Russian refugees on the island of Proti. After about two years in Constantinople she was transferred to the Caucasus where she built up the work in Djalal Oghli. She returned to America, January, 1923, but went back tot Russia with the Friends’ Society in whose care she may now be addressed at Bunzuluk, Somara.
Theda B. Phelps
(Miss), of Philadelphia, Pa., who had been stationed in Talas for the American Board and who worked with the Persian Commission of the Near East Relief in the Spring of 1919, signed with Near East Relief in November, 1919. Attached as before to the Caesarea Unit she had charge of special relief and of the care of scabies. In the Spring of 1922 she suffered an attack of typhus after which she came home, reaching America July 2, 1922. On May 15, 1923, she went again to the foreign field for the American Board in whose care she may be addressed, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
Annie A. Phelps
(Miss), yet another of the “Leviathan’s” passengers on February 16, 1919, went to Marsovan where she had charge of the industrial relief. Later she was at Samsoun. She returned to the United States December 2, 1921. She is at present working in the Cleveland Associated Charities, her address being 2215 Devonshire Drive, Cleveland, O.
Georgia Underwood Peterson
(Mrs.), as Mrs. Underwood, crossed on the “Leviathan” on February 16, 1919, and was assigned to Smyrna where she took charge of the American Relief orphanage for girls, connected with which was a day nursery and an investigating department. She stayed in Smyrna until May 1, 1920. Mrs. Peterson’s address is now 1610 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mary E. Coughlin Peterson
(Mrs. Axel S.), of Massachusetts, as Miss Coughlin, joined the nursing personnel on the “Leviathan” and was sent to Adana. There she was in charge of the clinic in the orphanage through the winter of 1919-1920. In the Spring she went to the island of Proti and was transferred to the Red Cross (May 18, 1920), which took over the care of the Russian refugees on that island. Mrs. Peterson is now living at 1200 South Carlisle Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Edward T. Perry
of Hartford, Conn., crossed February 16, 1919, and was sent to the Caucasus where he warded off starvation and disease from some 850 orphans. At Erivan he was in charge of the industrial work when he suffered an attack of typhus. In May, 1920, he came back to the States, and worked in the personnel department of the Near East Relief. He is now studying at the Theological Seminary of Hartford, Conn., preparing to return to Turkey under the American Board in the summer of 1924. His address is 155 Broad Street.
Katherine Pellow
(Miss), of Detroit, sailed October 14, 1920, and was assigned in Constantinople to aid Miss Emma Cushman at the Near East Relief Trachoma Hospital (November 1920). In the Spring of 1921 she was assigned to the Caucasus where she served at Erivan, Karaklis and Djalal Oghli. With Dr. Elfie Graff she established at Dilijan a sanitarium for tubercular children. In May, 1922, she left the Caucasus for Constantinople and in June started for America. Her address is 49 Willis Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Frank J. W. Peers
signed with Near East Relief from the Base Hospital at Fort Sill, Okla., and crossed with the “Leviathan” party of which his sister, Miss Adeline Peers, was also a member. Sent to Aintab Mr. Peers was there during the difficult days of the siege. His address now is 106 Packard Street, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Charles H. Peers
was appointed to Tiflis in 1919 and was stationed at Akhalkalaki in 1920. He left Constantinople for America August 4, 1921. His address is 318 West Lexington Avenue, Ashland, Ky.
Adeline Peers
(Miss), of Mississippi, crossed on the “Leviathan,” February 16, 1919, She served in Aleppo and returned to the States August 11, 1920. Her address at the moment is 1333 Buchanan Street, Topeka, Kans.
Stephen Clough Peabody
(Rev.), of Appleton, Wis., sailed in February 16, 1919, for the Near East. He was stationed at Samsoun. He came back to the States January 20, 1920. Rev. Mr. Peabody is a Congregational clergyman and may be addressed care the Y. M. C. A. of Moline, Ill.
Marion Peabody
(Miss), of New York City, crossed July 1, 1919 with the Y. W. C. A. group and was assigned to the Service Centre at Constantinople. Later she went to Sivas and took charge of the Rescue and Industrial Home, where about 140 girls saved from Turkish harems were made happy and self-supporting. Miss Peabody and twenty other Near East Relief workers were detained by Turks in Samsoun in December, 1920. Miss Peabody is now General Secretary, Y. W. C. A., 87 South Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y.
William B. Patterson
also crossed on the “Leviathan,” his work being that of X-Ray operator. He went to all areas. See above for return and present address.
Gladys M. Carr Patterson
(Mrs. Wm. B.), of Massachusetts, went as Dr. Carr on the “Leviathan” with the medical force as roentgenologist. She covered the entire field installing, supervising and teaching X-Ray work in the various hospitals. She returned November 28, 1919. Dr. Carr-Patterson may be addressed 327 West 78th Street, New York City.
George W. Patterson
of Randolph, Vt., crossed on the “Patria” leaving New York City July 1, 1919. He was assigned to Adana where he served when the district was in an uproar and when the refugees from Marash took sanctuary in Adana. On June 22, 1920, he reached Beirut on his way to America which he reached July 23, 1920. Mr. Patterson is now Superintendent of Schools in Randolph, Vt.
Emily Passmore
(Miss), of Westwood, N. J., boarded the “Siboney” on February 28, 1920, and upon her arrival at Constantinople was sent to the Caucasus. Conditions there obliged the return of many women relief workers. Miss Passmore among them. She was then assigned to Sivas but before she could start an emergency call sent her to Ismid (August 28, 1920). Out of the necessities of the refugees grew a hospital; the addition or relief workers to the staff gave Miss Passmore and Miss Priest time to attend to the nursing work exclusively and the coming of a physician, Dr. Mabel Elliott, relieved them of medical and surgical responsibility. Miss Passmore reached America May 29, 1921. She is now engaged in Public Health work in Abbeville, S. C.
Anna Dando Parmelee
(Mrs. H. C.), of Frostburg, Md., as Miss Dando, joined the “Leviathan” party of February 16, 1919. She was assigned to Mardin August, 1919, and in October, 1919, was transferred to Diarbekir where she aided in opening the hospital. On July 9, 1920, she reached home once more. Mrs. Parmelee is now living in Sanford, Florida (Route A).
Rebecca E. Parker
(Miss), of New York City and Pomerania, N. J., left America on the “Madonna” July 15, 1920, reaching Constantinople, August 6. In October she joined the Harpoot Unit. February, 1921, found her in Samsoun, which she left in April, making the journey to Harpoot by wagon. In the Spring of 1922 she was in Aleppo and Beirut and returned to the United States in July, 1922. Miss Parker, with Walter E. Curt and Elizabeth Morgan, went through a bandit experience more enjoyable in retrospect than at the time. She is now living at 1532 McLemore Avenue, Memphis, Tenn.
Louis A. Parker
(Rev.), of Texas, left New York, October 12, 1921. Going to the Caucasus he was appointed to the office of Finance and Supplies at the Tiflis headquarters (December, 1921). Later he served at Jalal Oghli (1922). In the Spring of 1923 he was stationed on the Island of Halki near Constantinople caring fro some 2,500 Greek refugees held there before being admitted to the mainland. There he had the misfortune to contract typhus. His address is Goliad, Tex.
Margaret A. Owens
(Miss), of Pittsburgh, Pa., joined Near East Relief from the Y. W. C. A., sailing December 20, 1919 and going to Adana where she opened a service station, January, 1920. After a holiday in the States Miss Owens crossed again, December. 22, 1922, reaching Greece in January, 1923, and working in Petra in September 1923. She returned to America March 6, 1924. Her address is 8 Woodlawn Apartments, Woodlawn and Forbes Streets, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Susan Wealthy Orvis
(Miss), a native of Dubuque, Iowa, who had served the American Board in Talas, was Director of Near East Relief Schools in that town in June, 1920. After Smyrna she evacuated several hundred orphans from Caesarea to the seacoast. Miss Orvis reached New York February 10, 1923. She is now studying in the Graduate School of Theology at Oberlin, O. and may be addressed at 188 West Lorain Street.
John W. O’Meara
of Worcester, Mass., started across on July 1, 1919, attached to the medical personnel. He took charge of the Caesarea hospital at Talas after Dr. Whitney left, and in May, 1920, was transferred to Sivas where there was no American physician. He reached America again September 14, 1920. He is at present practicing in Worcester, his address being 390 Main Street.
Dr. Blanche Norton
of Weehawken, N. J., steamed on June 24, 1919 to join the Near East Relief medical personnel. She was attached to the Trebizond Unit and at once started the establishment of clinics throughout the country surrounding Trebizond. At Kerassunde she found so much trachoma that she founded a hospital especially to care for this disease. She herself caught it and went to Constantinople for rest and treatment. She was decorated with the Greek Order of George, the only woman to receive the Greek War Cross. She returned to America September 27, 1920. Dr. Norton is now practicing in New York, her address being 170 West 59th Street.
Isabel T. Norkewicz
of Shenandoah, Pa., started February 28, 1920, for the Near East on the “Siboney.” She did hospital work in Alexandropol and Tiflis up to the summer of 1920 and then was transferred to the Constantinople Unit and assigned to Marsovan (July 3). Here she trained native girls for nurses. From March 30, 1921, she remained chiefly in Constantinople in charge of the trachoma clinic that has proved so great a blessing to the sufferers from this Eastern scourge. She reached home June 27, 1922. Miss Norkewicz is now in Shenandoah, Pa., 62 South Bower Street.
Byron Mortimer Noone
signed with Near East Relief early in 1919, sailing on February 16. Assigned to Smyrna, Mr. Noone remained there until the closing of the work in January, 1920. In Cons in April he joined the Y. M. C. A. for service in Adana. There he continued after rejoining the Near East Relief (December 1, 1921). With the evacuation of Cilicia he moved Adana orphans to Tarsus, thence to Mersine and by boat to Constantinople. He left Adana the following February (1922), to go to Konia to assist Dr. Dodd, and in November, 1922, after the Smyrna disaster, he transferred the Konia orphans – 400 boys and 300 girls – to Greece. He was in Syra in charge of the boys’ camp in April, 1923, and reached America on the first day of November, 1923. Mr. Noone is studying at Columbia University, his address being 346 West 57th Street, New York City.
Margaret H. Niles
(Miss), of Bloomfield, N. J., joined the “Leviathan” group of dietitians and food specialists. Sent to Harpoot she worked with refugees and orphans. America saw her again in June, 1920. She is now a nutrition worker, her address being 57 Clinton Road, Glen Ridge, N. J.
Dr. Sylvanus B. Newton
enlisted in Paris with the Near East Relief November 24, 1919. He served in Trebizond as Director of the Unit until the first of February, 1921, when he was transferred o Kavak in Anatolia where he took care of 348 Georgian refugees. He returned to America in August, 1921. His present address is 1750 Q Street, Washington, D. C.
Arthur T. Newman
of New York City, a sanitary engineer, left America with the large party that sailed February 16, 1919. He was sent to Smyrna where he set up the sanitary machinery in the hospital. He was a member of the Inter-Allied Sanitary Commission and was advisor on sanitation for the Greek Military Hospital. He reached the United States January 20, 1920and may now be addressed 704 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Doris Nevin
(Miss), of Bluehill Falls, Maine, left the States on November 22, 1919, with Miss Andress’s party. Stationed at Adana she was successful in placing out the older boys with employers in the city, started a society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and was at one time under fire. On New Year’s Day, 1921, she left Constantinople for France. Miss Nevin is spending the winter of 1923-24 in Bermuda. She may be reached by addressing her at 51 Irving Place, New York City.
Florence Louise Myers
(Miss), of Hinsdale, Ill., sailed on the “Pannonia” with Miss Andress’s party on November 22, 1919, and after much difficulty was established in the Caucasus. She was in Alexandropol in August, 1920, and was among those who stayed on in the Caucasus after the fall of Kars (November, 1920). February, 1921, found her once more in Constantinople but on May 4 she sailed again for the Caucasus which she reached on the 16th. In July she and two other women went with a food ship from Constantinople to Batoum. In September she was ministering to the refugees in Erivan. During the greater part of 1922 she was in Tiflis. She reached home February 21, 1923. Miss Myers is now attending a shorthand college in Hinsdale, Ill. Her address is 46 First Street.
Roy E. Myer
of Lancaster, Pa., left New York, February 28, 1920. He went to the Beirut-Aleppo Area for transportation service which took him through some perilous experiences in the interior. He reached New York November 12, 1921. Mr. Myer is now a mechanic in an automobile electric service station in Lancaster, Pa., his address being 540 North Plum Street.
Elizabeth Murlless
(Miss), of Hartford, Conn., signed with Near East Relief in Constantinople on April 8, 1922. She did orphanage work at Trebizond and from there was transferred to Samsoun (July 17, 1922) when Mr. Crutcher took over that station. After Smyrna she aided in the transfer of 2,000 Samsoun orphans to Greece. In May, 1923, Miss Murless severed her connection with Near East Relief. She reached the United States in the autumn of 1923 and is now living at 53 Washington Square, New York City. She is connected with the 39th Street Neighborhood Centre.
Bessie B. Murdock
(Miss), signed with Near East Relief as nurse, September 6, 1919. She joined the Harpoot Unit and was appointed to Arabkir, a remote mountain city of 15,000 people. In February, 1920, the house in which she was living was burned and she and her fellow-workers lost all their clothes and equipment. She had the medical care of 450 children and for a time was the only October in twelve towns in the district. She returned in the autumn of 1922 by way of Scotland to America, where she spoke for Near East Relief for some time. She is now living at 27 Claremont Place, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Annette L. Munro
(Miss), of Newtown, Mass., sailed on September 18, 1920, to join the nursing personnel overseas. Assigned to the Caucasus she worked at Tiflis and then was re-assigned to Caesarea. Here she stayed until her return to the States, January 14, 1922. Miss Munro is now an X-Ray Technician. Her address is 1 Arundel Terrace, Newton, Mass.
Charles Dexter Morris
of Olean, N. Y., was in Paris when he enlisted with Near East Relief. He arrived in Constantinople January 27, 1922. Being attached to the news service, he moved from one area to another gathering material. He was decorated by Greece, Russia, Montenegro and Rumania. On October 12, 1923, he reached America where he may be addressed at Olean, N. Y.
J. Edith Morgan
(Miss), of Montclair, N. J., sailed February 16, 1919, as a member of the nursing personnel of the Near East Relief. Attached to the corps at Mardin she served during the early and very difficult days. She returned December 9, 1920. Her present address is 305 Halsey Street, Newark, N. J., where she is Resident Superintendent of the Newark Female Charitable Society and Director of the Fresh Air Home.
Grace Morey
(Miss), signed with Near East Relief in Constantinople and worked in the Caucasus. Miss Morey is now with the Travelers’ Aid Society, 465 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
Alice Moore
(Miss), of Chicago, Ill., was a member of the Smith College Unit when she sailed on February 16, 1919. The Smith Unit took over the work at Malatia with its varied activities – an Armenian Orphanage, a Home for Defectives and an Industrial Department among them. In June, 1920, Miss Moore was re-assigned to the Samsoun Unit. She started for home November 15, 1920, and is now living in Santa Paula, Calif., (P. O. Box 743), where she is doing secretarial work.
Harry C. Moffett
of Ohio, signed with Near East Relief in Rumania in February, 1921, and was assigned to Bardizag. He was under fire at Ismid, served as Sivas, evacuated hundreds of children to Greece, convoying boys to Kavalla and Syra, and worked with refugees. He returned to America May 9, 1924, and may be addressed, Lebanon, Ohio (R. F. D. 1.)
Dr. Elsie R. Mitchell
of Berkeley, Calif., crossed on the “Leviathan” with the medical personnel. Stationed in the Caucasus she served at Etchmiadzin and Erivan during the period when the refugee situation was terrific and just a beginning was made with orphanage work. Dr. Mitchell is now living in California but may be reached by addressing her 228 9th Street, Plainfield, N. J.
Edwin Knox Mitchell
of Hartford, Conn., returned to the States on November 25, 1919, from service in Alexandropol. He may be addressed care Prof. Edwin K. Mitchell, 57 Gillett Street, Hartford, Conn.
Marguerite Milner
(Miss), of Williamsport, Pa., sailed on October 12, 1921. In Constantinople she served as Secretary to the Managing Director of the Constantinople-Greece Area; in the Caucasus she was Secretary to the Director General and in Palestine, Secretary to the Managing Director. She reached the States on May 6, 1924, and may be addressed 1515 Walnut Street, Williamsport, Pa.
Charlotte Mills
(Mrs.), of Jacksonville, Fla., went out in June, 1921, to join her daughter, Caris, in Constantinople. She acted as hostess of the Personnel House until August 29, 1922, when she was released by Near East Relief and with Miss Mills became connected with the Neutral Home of the League of Nations in Constantinople.
Caris E. Mills
(Miss), of Princeton, N. J., started for the Near East July 1, 1919, and served in Constantinople until August 29, 1922, with the Near East Relief news service. Her observations of the different activities of the organization were told in letters reproduced by the Editorial Department in New York and in articles in “Near East Relief” and the “New Near East.” In the summer of 1922, Miss Mills was released by Near East Relief and is now affiliated with the Neutral Home of the League of Nations in Constantinople.
Blanche E. Mills
(Miss), of Berkeley, Calif., went across with the “Leviathan” party. After more than a year of hospital work in Erivan she came back to America in September, 1920. Her present address is 2521 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Nellie Miller Mann
of Indiana, left the States on August 20, 1921, on the “Patria.” Set to Syria she arrived at Beirut in September, 1921, and served in the Beirut Area until October, 1923, when she came home. She is now living at 145 Indiana Avenue, Elkhart, Ind., and acting as Secretary to the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities. At present she is making a circuit of the Mennonite Churches in northern Indiana, speaking on Near East Relief work.
Floyd H. Miller
was in Paris when he signed with Near East Relief. He served in the Caucasus in the summer of 1919 and reached the states October 29, 1919. He may be addressed 501 Avon Street, Flint, Mich.
Ernest H. Miller
of Fentress, Va., sailed November 5, 1919. He acted as Director of Transportation in Beirut and afterwards at Sidon and came home in December, 1921. He is now farming in Conway, Kans. (R. F. D. No. 2.)
Ernest E. Miller
of Chicago, Ill., with experience as quartermaster, agriculturalist and superintendent of a boys’ home, went on the “Leviathan.” He was assigned to Mardin. He came home May 16, 1920. He is now serving as a missionary at Dhamtari, C. P., India.
Winifred Ellen Merrill
(Miss), of Boston, trained as teacher and orphanage matron, crossed on the “Leviathan.” Later she was billeted to Beirut. She returned to America August, 1920, and is now in Boston, Mass., 112 Jersey Street, teaching English to foreigners.
Nelson P. Meeks
of New York City, was on the “Leviathan’s” list, booked for relief work. He served at Tiflis, Erivan and Alexandropol and returned March 7, 1921. He may be addressed care Mrs. F. A. Meeks, 52 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers, N. Y.
Gardiner C. Means
enlisted with Near East Relief at Olcott, Texas, and left on January 16, 1919. He worked in Harpoot establishing weaving and other industries until May, 1920, when he started for home, reaching New York, August 8, 1920. He may be addressed 93 Crawford Street, Lowell, Mass.
J. Louise Mason
of Boston joined the “Leviathan” party and went to Ordu. For more than a year she did relief work there where both Armenian and Greek orphanages were administered from Trebizond. She returned to America June 7, 1920. She is now living at 191 Newbury Street, Brockton, Mass., and acting as High School physician. Her permanent address is Falmouth, Mass.
Harold M. Marvin
of Florida, joined Near East Relief from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, being listed among the medical personnel that went over on the “Leviathan.” He was assigned to the Caucasus and ministered to the medical needs of Alexandropol, Karaklis and Kars. He returned home in July, 1920. He is now doing medical teaching at the New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
Rachel King Martin
(Mrs. Edward F.), of New York City, went across with the “Leviathan” party starting from New York February 16, 1919. Her work was sanitary, hygienic and nursing in Caesarea. A year after her arrival she started fro America, but found conditions so disturbed as to make traveling dangerous, so she went back to her post. In May, 1921, she was in Constantinople filling a three months’ contract. October saw her in America where she married Edward F. Martin and returned with him to the Near East. See Above. While Mr. Martin was stationed in the Caucasus Mrs. Martin ran the Personnel House for a while and did some nursing. For address see above.
Edward F. Martin
of Wisconsin, signed with Near East Relief in Paris. In July, 1919, he was assigned to the Supply Base at Oulou Kishla where he arrived in August. Later he went to Caesarea where he took charge of the Boys’ Industrial School. In May, 1921, he was connected with the Transportation Department at Constantinople and in September returned to America where he married Miss Rachel King, whose acquaintance he had made in Caesarea. Together they returned in December of the same year, Mr. Martin taking the post of Director of the Warehouses at Derindje. In June, 1923, he closed them, transferring the remaining supplies to Ortakeuy. That accomplished the Martins went to Alexandropol where Mr. Martin was Superintendent of Transportation. Released in November, 1923, Mr. and Mrs. Martin reached America in January, 1924. They may be addressed care Rev. J. S. King, Little Britain, Orange Co., N. Y.
Bertha Martin
(Miss), of Pennsylvania, joined her brother, Clark D. Martin, as a volunteer worker in the Caucasus. From February, 1922, to February, 1923, she served in Erivan. Her present address is Pine Grove, Pa., where she is a merchant.
Anne M. Marlin
(Miss), of Pittsburgh, Pa., was in Paris when she enlisted with the Near East Relief. She reached Constantinople early in March, 1922, and in the summer went on to the Caucasus where she served at Alexandropol. She returned to America July 23, 1923, worked with the Pittsburgh Near East Relief office and may be addressed 986 Lilac Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Esther Louise Marks
(Miss), of Suffern, N. Y., sailed February 28, 1920. She did relief work in the Caucasus. In July, 1920, she was in Constantinople on her way to Samsoun and in December of the same year she was again in Constantinople assigned to Adana. An eager class in English was among her experiences there. In May, 1921, she was in charge of the Constantinople Industrial Workshop store. Miss Marks may be addressed care Rev. R. B. Marks, 24 Wayne Avenue, Suffern, N. Y.
Fred P. Margerum
of Pennsylvania, crossed April 30, 1921, for Constantinople, whence he went to the Caucasus Area. There he served as District Commander at Polygon, Alexandropol, and at Karaklis. He reached America once more July 13, 1922. Mr. Margerum is now in New York City (505 Fifth Avenue), engaged in the production of multigraphed, mimeographed and photostatic fac-similes.
Beatrice Cameron Mansfield
(Mrs. Richard), assigned to the Beirut Area in Sep, 1919, served at Urfa during the hostilities and was transferred from there to Aleppo in April, 1920, and on to Jerusalem as Matron in August, 1920. She left Beirut for Paris in September, 1920. Mrs. Mansfield’s present address is The Grange, New London, Conn.
James R. Magee
of Pennsylvania, joined the relief workers of the “Leviathan” party and went to the Beirut Area. His duties were performed at Shuf and he returned to the United States May 16, 1920. He is now an Internal revenue Agent at Denver, Colo., 203 Custom House.
Martha Foster MacNeill
(Miss), of New York City went on the “Leviathan” and was sent to Aleppo. She was given charge of the workwomen in the Aleppo industrial rooms and did not come back to New York until July 15, 1920. She is now connected with the New York State Office of Near East Relief and is living at 1020 Woodycrest Avenue, New York City.
Margaret L. Mack
(Miss), of Rockland Co., N. Y., joined the nursing personnel on the “Leviathan” and went to the Caucasus where she served at Erivan and Tiflis and in Shush during the hostilities. In October, 1919, she was in Batoum in charge of 6,000 refugees, working with only native helpers. She came back February 16, 1920, and is now doing relief work in Hillburn, Rockland Co., N. Y.
