Show NEWS FROM OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE U S SERVICE by twila kearl mrs lota kennedy received another anut her letter from her daughter helen v A ho is 13 with the array army nurses corp in englan Eng lanil telling her about some of the alaci she has been we quote part of her letter saturday jan 29 1941 hello mom MO n dear aho vho 1110 would have thought id stand on a wall built iby by the komans homans about COO 00 A D Q 1 I could be a year or so s off on the date it was a st stately atly old jiing built I 1 of stones mortar and cov el bied ea with w ith in mosa oss it deeina unusual in its architecture tho the steps leading up to rt it so vide aide that cars travel them at one cine time it was a city wall but only part of it remains then we five of us its nurses on a 24 hour leave visited ae the alms house belonging to the church of england its the anly one in existence and was so interesting to me because we studied them in connection with the origin ot of nursing when I 1 was in training this one was built in 1253 A D by abdat 0 monks about two hundred years later they tole toie it down by piece and moved to another city which is its present location its arching stained v daws and dark oak carvings are beyond description it gave me a queer feeling to know that the building was exactly as it had been years ago save tor for a central heating plant malt women live liva in the alms houss housa and are are completely maintained by the hurch church I 1 shall call their flats stalls because they reminded me of a central aisle with small stalls taken taen off from either side these were closed off with lattiea daere oak save for the door and had a stone fluor floor which friis particular little woman was scrubbing I 1 fragaer fell in love avah ler ier she had snow white hair beautifully arean arranged ged a smiling face clear blue eyes and a gracious ar we were vere too early tor for her Ili gioi oaie ne to be clean beat if id excuse her shed jed show it to me it was very small a sleeping room and a living room with a lee fue place but she had made it seem like th nicest s she invited me to tes tea she loved these young american gals but I 1 accept her invitation L y chis hiis r s house ib b soi ething athing like HL A poor house on a better scale women over sixty yeats of ag age ge ale aie eligible elig iole and they alny their applice application ution to me church if found worthy they go on n 1 hs abl emu and ab mid dies another moves in the list covers about a hundred years now in the future the bishop said the only requirement is that they attend chuick evly iii Liv ayio jio lice ilee to coine and go as thay like but once they leave permanently they can nver naver clurn the place was olit zed once lu no damage was done then we saw the cathedral built in 0 A D honestly the tha stained windows depicting christs life lifa are beyond anything ive ever seen tombs and carved images of their occupants were round in every direction even under the floors A holy communion Com was in process while we were there the echoe of the latin in those massive corridors cori dors and the dim light along with the cold aid made me feel as if I 1 too were a ghost I 1 dont know if I 1 care to see westminister West minister abbey or not save in a crowd and in daylight after this exper icene in a smaller cathedral it seems such euch a short time ago that helen was here in randolph going her rounds as county nurse and now she is thousands of miles away seeing the countries which she undoubtedly read about in her high school text b books gordon peart arrived home 1 monday 11 Y from the naval air base in beaufort south carolina wearing the silver wings as an aerial gunner on the twelfth of last july gordon and miss barbara reese of woodruff were married in a civil ceremony on wednesday 1st ast they went through the temple at salt lake accompanied by his father and mother bp and mrs willard peart his sister joyce peat t and mr and mrs airs russell on friday march 3rd ard a wedding reception was given in honor of gordon and barbara in the randolph recreation hill hall many beautiful gifts being presented to the young couple gordon leaves march fth for seattle wash where he fie will report tor for his bis future assignment sign ment A letter dated ath was received from lt lit wesley weston son of sheriff and mrs ben weston of laketown Lake town who reported that he was in australia Continue Con a on last page 0 |