The Cathcart Sisters, Katherine 'Katie' and Charlotte 'Pink'

The Cathcart girls, Katie and Pink, attended the Girls’ Classical School on Pennsylvania Street, founded by May Wright Sewall. In 1917, Pink joined the staff of the Colonel Eli Lilly Base Hospital, which became an army unit designated as Base Hospital No. 32, to aid the wounded of World War I. On 27 October 1917, she entered the army as a stenographer for the hospital, and served at Contrexeville in the Vosges Mountains of France.