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| Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, of Philadelphia |
Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, of Philadelphia, national chairman of the Department for Navy Recreation, has established the United Service Club for Sailors in Philadelphia, where one thousand men can be provided with beds, entertained and fed.
She is also chairman of the Committee which organized the Country Club for Enlisted Men, where golf, tennis and other outdoor sports are arranged for the sailor members and their friends.
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| Harper's Bazar cover July 1918 By ERTE |
Modern day programs for the Navy - http://www.discovermwr.com/nsaphiladelphia/
What a lovely post! and how nice a reminder that so many of these very wealthy people sprang to help during the war!!
ReplyDeleteThe efforts of these ladies often gave the soldiers the only 'sense of reality in the outside world.....and the only "fun" they would see through those awful years!
Brava!