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Show It was decided to send Miss Rappleye an American flag and one was made for her by the ladies of Plymouth Church of Oakland. She had also been sent a piano instead of an organ. During several years the May meetings of the Board were held at jMills Seminary, as it was then called, and Mrs. Mills' hospitality was greatly enjoyed. Vehicles and lunch were provided. Occasionally the Presbyterian Board met there with us. Much space is devoted to the growth of the work in Brousa. It held a place in the hearts of the early missionary societies that no other field did. Miss Rappleye came home in April of 1881 and a meeting to greet her was planned in San Francisco at Plymouth church. This meeting was held and Miss Rappleye had brought with her a title orphaned Greek by the name of Stephanos, whom she wished to educate. The minutes indicate but do not actually tell of Miss Rappleye's marriage to the Hon. G. W. Colby of Benecia and of her death in two short months, caused by pneumonia. The little Stephanos became a ward of the Board, at Northfield, Mr. Moody's school. The eighth annual meeting of 1881 was held in Los Angeles and seems to have been a happy, successful occasion with an elaborate souvenir program. The ninth was celebrated in 3d Church, San Francisco. The tenth anniversary was fittingly celebrated in Santa Cruz-our birthplace. Thirty-five out of the fifty auxiliaries were represented and one hundred and fifty ladies w^ere present at the opening morning session. The President, Miss Lucy Fay made a tender, spiritual welcome closing with an original poem, "Santa Cruz." It was felt we had now passed from infancy to maturity. Mrs. Smith, the Secretary, summed up the work of the Board and looked ahead into what we should have accomplished at the end of the second decade. So much of this has not come to pass even at the end of five decades that we wonder if we have been lacking in faith and zeal. We rejoice that we have for our inspiration the untiring devotion of the pioneer women who organized our Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific in 1873. [ 15 1 |