President William Trufant Foster in Red Cross uniform, 1917.
eed instituted a reconstruction aide program in 1918, holding five three-month training clinics and graduating over 200 women. Nationwide, it was the largest of 14 such campus programs, which offered the earliest physical therapy courses in the U.S. A barracks for 200 men was built in front of Eliot for the Student Army Training Corps (SATC), but was taken down within the year. SATC, the Reed unit of the army, offered war emergency courses, beginning October 1, in a special publication. Another publication, War Work for Women, detailed the training program of the reconstruction aides for military hospitals. Longterm faculty member Charles McKinley was hired in political science. No yearbooks were published for 1917, 1918, or 1919. In 1918, Stephenson Smith ’15 was the first Reed student awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Students received instructions regarding the influenza epidemic of 1918–19.
Reed in 1918
