Similar to the Rink and Drink event, the JSA semiformal was designed to bring Jewish students together on a social, rather than religious, basis. These events were well attended, likely due to their variety and the high proportion of Jewish students on campus at the time.
JHU Archives RG 14.170 b.1 Jewish Student Association: Broadsides and Posters, 1981-83
personal photograph from Gail Kaden ('81)
The JSA and the Progressive Student Union at times clashed regarding Israel and the Middle East. This took place in person and through the News-Letter, but ultimately the campus supported Israel and maintained the JSA.
Hullabaloo ed., Telford et. al. (Baltimore, 1983): 197
Julia King, Detail from "Friday Evening" group
Julia Obear, messenger for the National Woman's Party, 1922
Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/92522524/
Katherine Olmsted, portrait photograph, wearing Red Cross uniform
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
Katherine Olmsted's American Red Cross Service Medal
Circular bronze medal with band of blue enamel around the rim with a circle of white enamel in the center; attached over the white circle is a red enamel cross; suspended from a navy blue ribbon. Inscriptions around the rim on the front: "SERVICE - AMERICAN RED CROSS"; stamped on the back: "TIFFANY & Co., N.Y/BRONZE"
Katherine Olmsted's Badge of the Serbian Red Cross
As the second Director of the Nursing Bureau of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Katherine Olmsted continued Alice Fitzgerald's work of organizing local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Norway, Italy, Estonia, and Latvia. This Serbian medal is a red shield-shaped medal with a vertical white stripe down the center and a white circle with a red cross in it at the center of the shield. There is a gold colored wreath around the bottom and sides of the white circle and small shield with sun on the horizon and a lion and griffin on it, three stars above the small shield, and a lion and a griffin on either side of the small shield. The medal is fastened with a screw attached to the back of the medal and a round plate with a threaded hole in it and two small handles on it.