Eleventh Group of YMCA War Secretaries, July 1918

A pamphlet titled "The Eleventh Group of YMCA War Secretaries," created in July 1918. The document lists the faculty, lecturers and graduates who participated in the special intensive course to train YMCA War Secretaries for work over in Europe during World War I. The course was held on the campus of Springfield College from July 3rd to July 30th 1918. The document also lists the profession before the war of each war secretary and what armed forces they were scheduled to work with. A photograph of the class is in the front. The document is from a bound volume of materials on War Work done by Springfield College during World War I. The volume was unbound for preservation and access concerns.The training of war work secretaries and physical education directors were important contributions to the war effort by Springfield College. The YMCA provided canteen services at the invitation of the US government and raised more than 150 million dollars (equivalent to 2.7 billion dollars in 2014) in order to comply with the request. This kind of work was not new to the YMCA which provided similar services during the Spanish American War.This item was original bound in a book titled “War-Work Courses in Great War, 1917-1918 Incomplete.” This volume was unbound and its contents foldered in the original order, which is chronological. The binding string was cut and the glue was removed with a razor blade. The edges are intact and the placement of stitches are visible. Each page or booklet was individually lifted out of the binding and placed in their own folder or a folder with like materials. Oversized materials were removed and placed in the oversized materials collection