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[[Top Left Margin]] COMMISSIONER DONALD MCMILLAN TERRITORIAL COMMANDER [[Top Right Margin]] RAY VIR DEN General Campaign Chairman The Army that Brings Peace to Millions The Salvation Army Shield of the Needy 1949 Annual Maintenance Appeal 120 West 14th Street, New York 11, N.Y. Telephone CHelsea 3-8700 Bernard C. Duffy Chairman Commerce and Industry William K. Beckers Treasurer Walter Hoving Chairman, Men's Division Mrs. Jackson A. Dykman Chairman, Women's Division Ivor Kenway Chairman, Publicity Committee April 27, 1949 Mr. Germain Seligman 5 East 57th Street New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Seligman: You may perhaps remember a young woman Salvation Army officer, Adjutant Helen Purviance, who was with the First Division Ammunition Train, of which you were an officer from August 1917 to October 1918. Miss Purviance, who is now a colonel in The Salvation Army, is retiring on Friday of this week. We are very anxious to arrange a reunion with some of the officers of the Ammunition Train and have pictures taken for the press in the morning, if that is possible. I know that this would mean a great deal to Colonel Purviance who has shown me her book of photographs and the history of the First Ammunition Train which contains the roster, photographs and a very fine tribute to her work. I hope very much that you will be able to come down for a few minutes to The Salvation Army headquarters on Friday, to revive for her what was, I know, the most vivid period in her long career of service. Sincerely, [[signature]] Alice Frankforter Alice Frankforter AF:eo Give to Your Heart's Content