AMABEL SCHARFF ROBERTS
1891 - 1918
Inasmuch as one of our young alumnae, Amabel Scharff
Roberts, 1913, U.S. Army Red Cross nurse, member of
Base Hospital No. 1, Presbyterian Unit with the Brit-
ish Expeditionary Forces, died in the service of her
country at Etretat, France, January 17, 1918, we,
the Faculty of Vassar College, desire to express to
her family our deep sympathy in the sense of our com-
mon loss. we cannot but be proud with them that Miss
Roberts, who had proved to us here her high standard
of work and devotion to duty, should have responded
without hesitation to the call of her country, giving
unwearying care to the wounded until the end came in
supreme sacrifice. The news of her death, coming at
the moment of the announcement that Vassar College
would be used this summer by the Red Cross for the
preliminary training of college women for the nursing
profession, should serve as a bugle call to others to
prepare to carry on her labors. Her name will live
in our traditions, associated with quiet simplicity,
the beauty of steady work, and complete devotion to
the service of humanity.
Cora J. Beckwith
Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
Ella McCaleb
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