Farewell Reception to Mrs. E. M.
Gull: Leaving China for Good informal reception was held just Friday at Headquarters to all past and present members friends of Mrs, Gull the opportunity of bidding her farewell. As we know, Mrs. Gull has always had the interests of the B. W. A. very much at heart, and the following letter which has been received very well expresses the: thoughts of those whom she will leave behin:
"The B. W. A. will soon have to say farewell—and what promises to be a permanent farewell—to one-of the earliest, best known and most vigorous of' its members; one, indeed, to whom the Association owes a hitherto unmeasured debt of graticuda. Mrs, E, M. Gull will in a short time be leaving China for good, accompanying her husband who goes to take up a new post in London; and although for the past year she has been away from Shanghai, she ig still keenly interested 1 growth and activities of the Association, and all early members of the B. W. A. will feel the departure of her, who was for three successive years their efficient Chairman, as a severance of a very real tic.
"Mrs, Gull was among the original founders of the Association, she was Chairman from early in 1922 until March 1925; she served on the House Committee; and was one of the leading lights of the Art Section, being herself a keen amateur artist, But a mere recapitulation of her! activities gives little idea of what} her real value was to the B. W. A For she brought first to her work the Association, an ungrudging be lief in its possibilities,—sadly uncommon in a world where it is much ier to criticize than to act; and she brought secondly, an equally ungrudging capacity for necessary but unpretentious spade-work, me valuable to any Association, especially in the beginning of its corporate life.
"Mrs, Gulls vision of what might be accomplished by the B.W. A. is in a fair way of materializing. Long ago she had envisaged for the Association, relationship and intercourse with other! women's clubs in the Far East, and to-day that has come to pass. Long ago she preached the potential value of the B. W. A., and now there jate over 1,000." members, and the Association has become a regular asset in Shanghai municipal ife. Of her immediate activities, is dificult to pick out one at random, but very many of the pleasant gatherings of the B. W. A. wore the outcome of her initiative.
The Association, then, bids her farewell in the literal sense of the term; acknowledging its indebtedness, and hoping with sincerest gratitude that good health and happiness may follow her to London, and that she may retain in England that zest for life and its work which made her so invaluable as a member of the Shanghai British Women's Association."
Mrs. J. T. Ford has now returned' from Wethaiwei, and will take up as Chairman of the:
Association. Mrs. J. J. Dawe who has been Acting-Chairman for the past three months handed over to the Vieo-Chairman, Mrs. K. Newman, vho conducted the Executive Meeting on Wednesday last.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.