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WHITENY                           -8-


Mrs. Whitney's design submitted to the Women's Titanic Memorial Committee won in open competition.  The figure is thirteen feet in height, hewn from a great block of granite, and perpetuates for all time the bravery of the men whose first thought in that time of awful peril was for the women and children.  A replica of the head of this memorial, done in black marble, is owned by the  Luxembourg Museum.

During the late World War Mrs. Whitney was actively engaged in various branches of relied work.  In 1914 she established and maintained at Juilly, France, "Ambulance American Hospitals, B."  Twenty-five experienced surgeons and nurses were in charge of this humanitarian work.  Upon America's advent among the warring nations, the hospital was enlarged and continued until hostilities cased.  The war, leaving its mark upon all classes and conditions of men, inevitably had a significant effect upon all artistic conception and expression.  To Mrs. Whitney's work it gave its great opportunity, and the impressions and reactions of five months in the war zone, in the  trenches and in the hospitals resulted in an