History of fifty years : Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific, and Program of Jubilee meetings

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During these years another important movement was the establish­ment of two considerable funds for increased work of the Board. The Susan Farnum Fund, gathered by her devoted friends, and designa­ted for the home of our workers in Foochow, China; and the gift from the family of Miss Mary Porter of the four thousand dollar Porter Fund, to be used in the same plant. These funds have blos­somed today into the Compound of the Foochow Union Kindergar­ten Training School, with its new Caroline Mitchell Building, but the real value of such gifts was to the entire Pacific Coast, in the influence and effect they had: the definite growth of the Board began with them, as we faced the possibility of owning and maintaining our schools and buildings, and from 1911 decided advance was mani­fest in our reports. In 1905 Dr. Susan Tallmon went to the hospital at Lintsing, China, as our missionary physician, remaining even after her marriage to Rev. B. F. Sargent, and seeing the beautiful Elizabeth Memorial Hospital built and used. In 1901 the Board undertook work in Africa at Mt. Selinda under Miss Julia Winter, and in 1908 we branched into a new field in assuming charge of Japanese kinder­gartens in Tottori, Japan, under the supervision of resident mission­aries, while in 1911 Miss Annie Hill and Miss Louise DeForest were adopted as our missionary teachers at the Doshisha Jo Gakko, Kyoto, followed in 1912 by the appointment of Miss Edith Parsons to our Girls' School in Brousa, Turkey, and I\fiss Mary Ledyard to the Union Kindergarten Training School in Foochow. These all point to increased investment in money and interest on the part of the Board's constituents, and the undertaking of the Elizabeth Memorial Hospital at Lintsing, China, the new Pacific Hall at the Doshisha Jo Gakko, and considerable additions to the Kaya Bashi School at Brousa, evidenced decided progress. Another important step during the decade was the adoption of a revised constitution in 1910, which increased the number of directors from eleven to fifteen, creating places for the presidents of the Northern and Southern California, Oregon and Washington Branches on the Executive Board. [ 24 ]