REPORT OF NATIONAL JUNIOR VICE-PRESIDENT. OFFICE OF NATIONAL JUNIOR VICE-PRESIDENT, MARY ELLEN CONANT, CHICAGO, ILL., July 15, 1902. National Secretary, W.R.C. Madam: In compliance with the Rules and Regulations of our Order, I herewith submit my report as National Junior VicePresident. Swiftly the weeks and months have glided by and we come once more to the close of another year. The wisdom shown by the Woman's Relief Corps at annual Conventions in the selection of President, has rendered the duties of its Vice-Presidents merely nominal. I have held myself in readiness to do whatever might be required of me, but as our honored President has been, early and late, quietly and faithfully performing every known duty, it has not been my privilege to be assigned any specific work. My office has been one of honor and pleasure; the honor I more fully appreciate from the fact that the Woman's Relief Corps is the largest charitable organization in the world. It would be very pleasing to me to tell of some important duty performed, but I am reminded that only of few are great deeds required. A grand lesson is taught those of us who "only stand and wait," in whose time there does not come the opportunity of special deeds to bring prominence and glory. This lesson comes from the experience of those who strove through that terrible ordeal, out of which has been born the Grand Army of the Republic; that much of the effect on the day of a great battle was to be found in the aggregate of the individual performance of the ordinary, commonplace duties of each day during the long months that had preceded the day of the mighty conflict. The majority round out the record with the small things thus forming the perfect whole. Many invitations to Department Conventions, camp-fires and receptions have been received, but in most cases the distance was too great to attend. I desire to express my thanks for the many courtesies extended to me as a national officer, more especially to the Department Presidents who have honored me with General Orders and Journals, thus enabling me to keep in close touch with all questions affecting the welfare of the Woman's Relief Corps. Respectfully submitted in F., C. and L., MINNIE M. KYLE, National Junior Vice-President. |