University of Georgia - World War I Reserve Officers Training Camp, 1917.

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University of Georgia - World War I Reserve Officers Training Camp, 1917.

The collection consists of framed items which include the signatures of the University of Georgia men who attended the Second Reserve Officers Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, during September and October 1917. In addition, and also framed, is the cover letter from Reverend Arthur Rowbotham of the National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Association concerning this gift.

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University of Georgia. International Student Life Office

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The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, approximately 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States. In 2005 U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked UGA 19th in its list of the top 50 public universities for a sixth year in a row. UGA also ranks 58th overall (public and private) in the nation. Today, it is the largest university of the University Syste...

National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States

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Trench and Camp newspaper was published by the National War Work Council of the YMCA, in partnership with various city newspapers, for soldiers during World War I. The weekly paper was printed in different editions for each of the thirty-two cantonments, with about half the material supplied weekly from a central editorial office in New York, and half by local reporters. Its purpose was “to print the news, to inform, to stimulate, and to help relieve the tedium and monotony of camp ...

Rowbotham, Arthur.

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