War Effort Committee
Name: War Effort Committee
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Prominent date(s) of activity: 1942-1945
History: Organized to host events directed at collecting funds to contribute toward the Second World War effort.
Activities:The War Effort Committee organized a Victory Ball at the Lady Beaverbrook Gymnasium at which over three hundred dollars was collected, as well as a series of informal dances. The Committee also organized an inter-faculty competition, the March of Dimes, which climaxed on the evening of the Conversazione.
In later years, the Committee relied on a variety of methods to raise funds such as organizing events and selling a variety of goods from luggage stickers to Freshman hats to apples.
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- Up the Hill, 1943, War Effort.
- Up the Hill, 1944, War Effort.
- Up the Hill, 1945, War Effort.
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