If I were living in ninteen eighteen, World War I would just now be ending. I would not have been able to fight due to my young age, but would have held down the home-front along with aiding the American Red Cross. The Colleges in my area would have been contributing as well. The Martha Washington College has been aiding the American Red Cross by contributing both money and labor. The college donated one hundred dollars for supplies, and innumerous articles of knitted clothing. All of the faculty and students made substantial investments in liberty bonds and war savings stamps. Along …show more content…
In promoting the work of the American Red Cross, Emory and Henry raised around three hundred dollars. They were also very proficient in the saving of Liberty Bonds and war savings stamps. More than one hundred of the college’s nineteen seventeen graduates went into service for the armed forces, and approximately ten of them were commissioned as officers. Now that the war is over, one hundred eighty three students have gone into the student army training corps, and one hundred four of them have gone into the reserve officers training