While City College men were preparing to be sent to fight, Hunter College women were also doing their part. The college raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Liberty Loan drives for equipment and supplies, and worked in a variety of patriotic organizations including the Red Cross and the Women’s Land Army.

Hunter College women were actively involved in war related work. Students and alumni prepared thousands of surgical dressings for the medical service, 48,747 to be exact. These were needed on the battlefield as were the garments that these women knitted and sewed for the military.

The activities of the Hunter College women were noted each month in the pages of The Alumni News.

The New York Times recognized a rally organized by Hunter College women, May 20, 1918.

Hunter College began offering training in x-ray work and wireless work, and many of the graduates went on to use their skills in government service.

Hunter College offered a class in wireless telegraphy. Miss Helen Campbell was one of the first women to receive her license as an “emergency operator” permitting her to transmit messages ashore or afloat.

In addition courses were offered in x-ray technology and bacteriology. There was a demand from hospitals throughout the country for x-ray technicians and bacteriologists to take the place of men who went to war.