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AKA USS Recruit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_%281917%29

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It's apparent from another photo of this event from the New York Herald, June 10, 1917, that the woman addressing the recruits between the big guns is Margaret M. Crumpacker, Commandant of the Woman's Auxiliary for Naval Recruiting, later called the League for Sailors Comfort and Cheer. fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New%20York%20NY%20Herald... bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55633045/ Margaret Murray Crumpacker was the second wife and widow of Jonathan W. Crumpacker, a member of a prominent Indiana political family who had been a state senator and was a federal appointee to the New Mexico territorial supreme court. She came to New York after his death in 1904 and went to France in December, 1915 to aid with the wounded and see the trenches first hand. She was active in WWI preparedness, then in recruiting after the U.S. entered the war in 1917. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24441555 www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24441588 archives.chicagotribune.com/1916/10/01/page/7/article/hom...

Art Siegel: Thanks for identifying the woman in the photo. We'll add her name when we next update.

Charles Laurie McCawley - United State Marine Corp. As of August 29th, 1916 he was Brigadier General (about the time of this photo). He was also Quartermaster of the USMC at this time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._McCawley

A cropped version of this photo appeared in the Evening star., December 17, 1916, Image 19 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1916-12-17/ed-...

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S. article in the NYT, June 24, 1917, 'MUSIC AT COLUMBIA' query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE0D7123BE0...

Today's opera at Columbia: artsinitiative.columbia.edu/campus/student-groups/columbi...

B-59 and swanq: Thank you for the information about opera performances at Columbia University. We will add more information when we update.