The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1941-08-01

              When spurred by tasks unceasing or undone 
You would seek rest afar 
And cannot, though the rest be fairly won 
Rest where, you are.
Not in event, restriction, or release, 
Not journeyings near or far, 
But in the heart lies restlessness or peace;
Rest where you are. 
--Charles Poole Cleave.
VOL. XXXIII KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. AUGUST, 1941 No. 8 
LIVE THE WAY YOU PRAY
I knelt to pray when day was done,
And prayed, ''O Lord bless everyone,
Lift from every saddened heart the pain
And let the sick be well again"
And then I awoke another day,
And carelessly went upon my way.
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye.
I did not try to share, the load
Of any brother on the road.
I did not even go to
The sick man just next door to me.
Yet once, again when the day was done,
I prayed, "O Lord bless every one"
But as I prayed, into my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear,
"Whom have you tried to bless today?
Whom have you helped along the way?
God's sweetest blessings always go
To hands that serve Him here below."
And then I hid my face and cried.
"Forgive me, Lord; for I have lied. 
Let me but live another day, 
nd I will live the way I pray." 
--Sel. 
Kansas City, Missouri, August, 1911
Training School Interests
and Activities
Mrs. Gustafson gave a buffet dinner on the front porch
of Schoellkopf Hall, at 6:30 Wednesday evening, July 30, in honor of Miss Mary F. Smith. Miss Smith, who has been
a member of the faculty of the Training School since her
graduation in 1912, is taking up new work as deaconess-pastor on the Pavillion Reclamation Project, with headquarters in
Riverton, Wyoming. The best wishes of her Training School
and many other Kansas City friends go with her
as she begins this new venture, the latter part of August.
Miss Doris Devore, '36, deaconess, began her work July
28 as field representative with the National Training School.
Miss Devore came to us from parish work in Frederick, Maryland.
Personal interviews with prospective students have kept
her busy so far.
HERE AND THERE
On August 10 Mr. Gustafson dedicated the Hadley Methodist
Church at Hutchinson, Kansas.
Misses Ruth Decker and Florence Koch attended the con
ference on disciplined life and service called by the National
Council of Methodist Youth, August 3 to 10. It was held at a cooperative camp, Circle Pines Center, in the Yankee
Springs National Park. Some of the leaders were Jay Holmes
Smith, Wade Crawford Barclay, Owen Geer, Herman Will,
John Swomley, James Farmer. Young people dedicated to a
more thorough-going Christianity, A Way of Life calling for
discipline and service, worked, studied, worshipped, and played
together. They also formed the Conference on Disciplined
Life and Service through which to carry on their purposes.
PERSONALS
Miss Marion Conrow, Wichita, Kansas, returned missionary
from China, was a Training School guest July 12.
Mr. Ernest W. Peterson of The Journal, Portland, Oregon,
spent some hours at the Training School, July 30.
Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Yost of Lebanon, Illinois, and Mrs. B. L. Wease, Decatur, Illinois, visited the Training School, July 12.
Janet MacFnrlnnd, Whittior, Cnlifornin, Mamie Cook and I Vera Plunkett, of Los Angeles, were over-night guests of the Gustafsons, August 1. 
Rev. Nelson Wurgler, pastor of the Methodist Church, Las Vegas, N. M., accompanied by his mother and sister Naomi, I of Knnsas City, was dinner guest nt the Training School, the I evening of July 30. H
Mrs. Ross W. Adair, of the Goodwill Industries, St. Louis, I Mo., and Mrs. Goedckc and little daughter Joanne, drove over H
from St. Louis Aug. G, bringing with them Misses Lucile Baird, B
Helen Hill, Lola McKinnoy and Rctty Moore, Training School H
students who were on the staff of the Goodwill Summer Camp, H
out from St. Louis, this summer. H
For: 1911-- 12 Community Fund Campaign. . . .
"There'll be sonic changes made " is no longer
nppropos when applied to the Charities Fund of Kansas City.
The Charities Committee, the governing body of the annual
fund raising campaigns, ever on the alert for new sound ideas
to promote the social wcllfnre and health work of our city, 'H
to sec that each contributor in this "million dollar business" is
assured of "double or nothin'" for each penny so spent,
after due deliberation, that from now on this organ'- - 'H zation will be known as the Community Fund rather than
Charities Fund.
E. Sanborn
Alumnae and BenVHauen Helps H
As has already been stated, Mary MMBBHiH F. Smith is giving up her work in the B
National Training School, to take up '9 other work, after twenty-nin- e years of KjL V
successful teaching and Ht
She became identified with the Kan- - MEJjjH
sas City National Training School for EPfcB Deaconesses, Missionaries, and other kRH Christian Workers the pioneer days HH days when a rapidly growing student
body and an increasing demand for
trained workers called for now buildings, equipment, and a
larger faculty.
There was no pattern or technique for the Training School
to follow it came into being through necessity. It was need-e- d
it grew rapidly and naturally. Faith in the wisdom and
power of God to guide in its development brought marvelous
results in needs supplied and results secured. IH
Eager young women were coming from all parts of the
United States, and from other lands not only with a desire
to study and learn, but eager to become and to do.
It was an adventure in Christian living and fellowship
a call to heroic abandonment into this challenging task Miss
Smith put all the strength of a keen mind and a willing heart
not only in her teaching field, but in the creative,
duties of a living, growing School.
A world outlook which began in Kansas City a love for
God and folk which did not count the cost a friendliness
every one has made her a valuable woman in a King-do- m
task. H
She received her B. Ed. Degree from Columbia University,
New York, and her M. A. from the University of Iowa.
In her new work she has much to give to a people who
need much. A. N. H
It was n merry group of in K. C. N. T. S. days,
who took possession of Beth-Have- Wednesday evening, Aug-
I ust Oth, to celebrate the birthday of their former president
v and friend, Anna Nciderheiscr. Good fellowship, singing,
gifts and reminiscences, with plenty of .cc cream, made H
a very happy evening one which will long be remembered.
Mission, Mcerut, India, April 2,'lrd., 1911.
n year I have been on the Mcerut District.
I a few months but in July I engaged an
come and work with me. She is a
experience and a very definite call
She lives in my homo and when we
sho shares the Public Inns where I have
Her ability with the simple people so far
foreign missionary that it is a joy to
response to her teaching. For a month I.Methodist used the picture of the Crucifixion and
in every village giving the scene in
appeal. In one village an nctor whose face
of her recital became so impressed
altered and he was ready to pledge
to Christ. We had such n fine leaflet
in two languages and people of nil religions
to read or to have read to them. Some
pictures of the Crucifixion. In ever
did not leave until we had called at each
walking-stic-k was drawn n cross on the
the home. This was outlined in color and
marked the home as that of a Christian as do the idolatrous
( markings on the Hindu homes. Wc have stayed in some of
the preachers homes this year where there has been happy
and fruitful fellowship. In this way there arc many contacts
with the pagan neighbors.
Under ideal conditions wc leave here on Monday morning
nnd return on Friday evening after one or two weeks. You
should sec our retinue. Usually on top of everything else
there is a huge boquct of flowers for the village worker's wife
and a gift of fruit or meat from the City. She may live
where not even the inevitable goat-me- at is available. In many
villages wc have chicken and sometimes pigeons and even pea-cock- s.
This week wc had a gift of deer and I have ordered a
peacock for a curry-dinn- er to be given for the Girls' School
Staff. All in all there arc many pleasures with our work
which add to our happy adventure.
After three months of village touring I decided that I
would take a trip to sec some other Stations. I went to Hissar
which is a desert place but a very good work to observe. A
lovely Indian lady is the head-mistre- ss and in the home there
is a missionary from Texas, one from Norway and a German
girl from America. One of the most impressive things was
the prayer-platfor- m with a cross cut of red stone
with a rock canopy over it.
H' I then went to Muttra where I had been Principal of the
Training School. For two days I visited with girls who are
now going out to teach for the first time and shared with a
new District worker many of my experiences on this Dis-tric- t.
One little village girl who come into Meerut when I
lived here before goes this year to take a responsible position
fl in the Scottish Mission. My first love in India was Brindaban
Hospital where I spent a year. I found there a refugee Doctor
1 who has just been released from a Concentration Camp by
grace through prayer. Two Kansas ladies and a laboratory-technicia- n
doing such highly professional work and yet inte-rna
ested in the quiet evangelistic services for the nurses, found
time also to tell me of their hopes and plans as they build
n new unit. I have n part in a memorial to my dear mother. I
Someone has said that I do not tell enough of the hard I things to make a missionary appeal. I think that it is because I when things are too hard the mood is not on to write letters. I Two days ago wc seemed to stand in the presence of Death I ns wc nursed a little boy with typhoid. Last night I was called I to comfort if I could the breaking hearts of a soldier and his I Eurasian wife as they sat by their wee baby's bed at the I Hospital. Day after day we face the fact that our young I people are still very pagan ns wc go among them to teach nnd H
sing. The poverty nnd beggary of India is depressing. But H
there are so ninny signs of revival nnd awakening one enn H
not help being encouraged. The fact that the Lord blesses H
our feeble attempts to heal all kinds of illness in the villngcs H
keeps us cheerful and going forward. With almost no proper H
remedies the lives of three people were saved in one week. H
But in that same circuit the next senson we were not allowed
to touch n small girl's foot because the gods were angry nnd
nothing would heal the open sore. One child whose body was
burned with ashes suffered so from the exhaustion of the
treatment I gnvc and the- poison from filthy leaves applied
to an open abeess that she died soon. Her parents said that
it was her fate.
The time is slipping around toward another furlough. I
have a comfortable home, a choice companion, a challenging
task, a host of devoted friends, good magazines, a radio and
a car besides numerous other blessings. If it should not bo
possible to come I feel that I could accept whatever might
come and I hope as bravely as a Scotch friend who is going
to Australia, and an English girl who is going up in Kashmir
lor six months ns a substitute furlough.
You cannot imagine the thrill wc received when wc knew
that you were being challenged to help the British Methodists
ns we were by the desperate need of our stranded Norwegian
friends here Inst summer.
In two weeks I go to take up the position of Hostess to our
Language School group of new missionaries who gather in
Landour. I shall take two weeks vacation later because of
having worked six weeks this summer. I shall study Hindu
Do write even though the time of mails is uncertain. And
above all pray that we may be faithful and strong through
the days to come.
Your grateful and loving friend,
Letah M. Doyle ('17)
Mrs. C. H. Anderson (Alice Haskins, '20), writes of a
change in their work. Their address is now 2117 Cliftwood
Avenue, Baltimore, Md. H
Mrs. Lew Griffing, R-- 4, Topeka, Kansas (Mablc Mcrkle,
'17) writes from Colorado, telling of an interesting trip she
and her husband are making by auto through the west, with
California as their objective point.
Mary Carol Cone, '35, made a brief visit in Kansas City
early in August in the home of Alice Virginia Brown, '33.
They were guests at the Training School and Beth-Have- n,
August 5th. Mary Carol is transferring from the Lessie Bates
Davis Settlement in East St. Louis, where she has been a
worker in the Nursery School, to the Engle Community Settle- - ;ilH
ment in Fairmont, W. Va. Alice Virginia returns to her work
in the Highland Boy Community Settlement in Bingham iJ Canyon, Utah.
Word comes from Hanna Anderson, '21, that her mother
passed into the "larger life", July 9th, after an illness of
two months. She lost her father less than six months ago.
The love and sympathy of all alumnae friends is extended to
her in her loneliness. H
Rev. and Mrs. Roy C. Murray (Miriam Cloud, '24), have 1
been transferred from biCrosse, Washington to Kcndrick, Idaho.
Mrs. Richard Bauer (Elcunni- - Nye, '.'15), tells us Hint they
arc settled in a very comfortable apartment at 0110 Kennedy
Avenue, Kennedy Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her husband Ik
a layman connected with the Procter and (iambic Company,
active in Church and civic affairs; also the Y. M.C. A.
Pearlo McKccman, 'Hi, has transferred from her work in
the Omaha Methodist Hospital to the Wall Street .Mission in
Sioux City, Iowa. Her address is 1308 Nebraska St. An orpin
is to be installed in the Church of All Nations, pari of the
Wall Street work, in memory of .Martha Younglovc, MB, who
gave 25 years of faithful service in the Wall Street Mission,
and the Church of All Nations. It will be dedicated, Septem-ber
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14th.
card from Edith M. Curl, M.'l, brings word of the diath
of her grandfather, in whose home she has lived since a child,
on May 25th. She wrote from Forest Home, California wheie
she was teaching in a Girls' Camp; 202 girls and leaders.
She had a class of '10 in Hymnology, and 21 in Lift) Service.
Her address is 181 Norton Avenue, Lone; Heach, Calif.
H. Elizabeth Dalbey, '.'12, is in Scarritt Collect, Nashville,
Tennessee, taking work for her A. B. device.
A very interesting letter was received recently from Ethel
Wcisz, '2-1- , Deaconess in the Philadelphia Deaconess Settle-ment,
telling of her vacation, which included a motor trip
through the New England States, and the summer activities
in her work all very interesting.
Mrs. Christian F. Rcisner and her sister, Mrs. Mary R.
Carson, now of Atchison, Kansas, were very welcome visitors
at ueuwiavon, Jiny izin.
Rev. Paul Sherwood, who with Mrs. Sherwood (Shirley
Smith, '21), are engaged in a very successful work with the
Japanese people at Lahaina, Hawaii, called at Beth-Have- n,
H. July 14th, when passing through Kansas City enroute to the
parental home of Mrs. Sherwood. It was a happy surprise
Leila Dickman, '22, a member of the staff of the Kate
Bilderback Neighborhood House at 2001 John Street, Fort
Wayne, Indiana, and four year old Cornellia Rysiowa, one of
the Nursery School Children priviliged to go home with her
to Basin, Wyoming to experience all the thrills of a visit in
the country, were week-en- d guests at Beth-Have- n, July 12-- H
13th. We all enjoyed the visit.
Ethel M. Graves, '.'!0, B. R. E., who has been the Deaconess
at Epworth-Eucli- d Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio for a
number of years, has accepted a similar position at St. Paul's
Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas.
Marie Brod, '39, has spent the past two years in Eagle
Community Settlement, Fairmont, W. Va. Feeling that she
j could add strength to her work with a course in practical
nursing, she entered the St. Louis Institute of Practical Nurs-- H
ing, 4523 W. Pine, St. Louis, Missouri, August 11th. While
in St. Louis her address will be 5GG9 Ca'bonul Avenue, St. Louis,
Mo. She spent August 8th in Kansas City, and visited both
her Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n.
Naomi Coger, '31, was a guest at Beth-Have- n July
h. She was returning from Jesse Lee Home, Seward,
Alaska, after two periods of very successful service totaling
ten years. It was a privilege to have her with us. She was H supper guest at K. C. N. T. S., July 25th. She is now in Toledo,
Ohio with friends and relatives.
Mrs. H. E. Sortor (Ruth Oldham, '21) called at K.C.N. H T..S., and was a dinner guest at Beth-Have- n, July 22nd. Her H husband is pastor of the Signal Hill Methodist Church in East
Hr St. Louis, Illinois, a growing Church in a growing section H of the city.
H Edna Ruth Hayes, '25, of Detroit, Michigan, made her
H Kansas City friends a surprise visit, August 11-- 1 5th. Her
H Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n appreciated their share of the
H
visit very much. It Is a long time since we had seen her. L
Hnrriet Clayton Cuffclt, A.H., R.N., M.'l, sent Beth-Have- n
u gift recent y from t.ie first fruits of her garden and orchard
at Powersite, Missouri. We mv enjoying it greatly. , 1
Kntherine IJohn, '30, Deaconess at Broadway Temple Metho- - M
dist Church, New Yoik City was nn overnight guest at Beth- - II
Haven Augiut 1.1-- 1 1, and a supper guest at her Alma Mater. 1
Mary lllnschko, '08, for long yenrs the Trinity Methodist ffi
Church Deaconess in Kansas City, Missouri, is spending her
vacnt.on, in company with friends from her Church, at the
Glenn Clark Camp, Lake Koronis, and in other points in Min- - r
ncsotii and Wisconsin. '
Lulu Patterson, '20, spent August 7th in Kansas City,
where she was a guest at K. C. N. T. S. and Beth-Have- n. Mis3
iatterson will be a with Mary F. Smith in ihe Pavil-ion
Rstamation Project in Wyoming. One of her pleasures
Will be to drive the new car being provided.
A rare treat came to the Beth-Have- n family in July
wlidii they received a crate of fresh pineapple from the plan- - '
tation or Mr. and Mrs. Soon Nam Kang (Flora Cho, '27, Ed. B.)
at Wall awn, Oahu, T. II. We are grateful indeed to these
f.ne friends for the courtesy of the gift, and for letting us
know how large pineapples grow in Hawaii, and how delicious H
they are when really ripe. H
Margaret Lawson, A. B., '31, a teacher in the public school H
at Granby, Colorado, spent two weeks at Beth-Have- n, August H
She visited a number of her friends while in the city. H
Avis Wallace, M.A., '21, teacher of music in the Brown- - H
Home and School. Camden. S. C. visited at the Training H
School and Beth-Have- n, while spending a few days with rcla- - H
tives in the city. Miss Wallace attended summer school in
the Pittsburg, Kansas Teachers College, earlier in the summer. H
Dorothy Gleason, '28, has received the appointment as
financial secretary, secretary and pastor's assistant at the First H
Methodist Church of Modesto, California. She began her work,
July 21st. We hope for her a fruitful service. Her address
's Box 272, Modesto, California. H
Pauline Goodwin, '40, was a week-en- d guest in Kansas 1H
City recently, visiting K. C. N.T. S., Beth-Have- n, and other
friends. She is a member of the staff at Harwood Girls
School, Albuquerque, N. M and finds her work a great op- -
portunity.
Mrs. Lewis Hoppock (Ina McKean, '10) of Waco, Texas,
was in Kansas City, visiting relatives and friends, in late
July. Wo were happy to have her at Beth-Have- n, July 28th as
a dinner guest. Such visits are very precious. V
Bessie Estcp, '37, K. C. N. T. S. '40, Bethany Hospital, H
now nurse in Freeman Clinic and Newark Maternity Hospital V
in El Paso, Texas, was our guest at Beth-Have- n, July 29-3- 0.
She was returning to El Paso, after a delightful vacation
spent in Detroit, Michigan, and in her home state of North BVfl
Carolina.
Darla Brown, '2G, kindergarten worker with the Deaconess V
Home Settlement in Wilmington, Del., visited her Alma Mater
and Beth-Have- n, July lGth, enroute to her home at Iola, Kansas BVfl
for a vacation.
Mrs Cecil Hockensmith Horton, '34, of Seward, Alaska, KVfl
with her little daughters, Audney and Carla, gladdened the KVfl
hearts of their Kansas City friends by a visit, July 19-2- 4. BwAfl
Headquarters was kept at the home of Dorothy Brown Wilder- - iH dyke, 915 Riverview, Kansas City, Kansas, where a class re- - VVJ
union was planned for the 20th, with a picnic dinner. Did VVJ
we eat? Five members of the class were present. All privi- - KVAVJ
leged to enjoy the day pronounced it a day of happy fellowship.
K. C. N. T. S. was not forgotten and Beth-Have- n enjoyed an VVJ
over-nig- ht visit. The children are getting the benefit of the RVAVJ
Kansas sunshine, and all will return to Seward in the early lVVJ