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The Weber County Chapter of the Red Cross began in December 1915 when a small group of individuals gathered to begin organizing a chapter of the Red Cross. In 1962, the name was changed to the Bonneville chapter, and in 1969, the chapter merged with other chapters in Northern Utah to become the Northern Utah Chapter, with its headquarters located in Ogden, Utah. The scrapbooks range from 1940 to 2003 and highlight some of the important work of the Red Cross. The books include photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials. |
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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, Wednesday, December 6, 1950 State Hospital Gets 800 Gifts From Red Cross Council PROVO (Special)—Final ar¬rangements are being made for distribution of 800 beautifully wrapped Christmas gifts at the Utah State hospital, contributed1 by seven chapters of the Utah Red Cross hospital council. Chapters that each took about 55 hospital patients' names to provide gifts, included Cache, We¬ber, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah and South Sevier. Mrs. Irvin Hull, Salt Lake City, state chairman, said the project was planned to give patients some¬thing they needed and wanted. The patients included on chapter lists are those who otherwise would not be remembered at Christmas because they have no outside friends or relatives. Grey Ladies of the Utah county chapter contacted the patients to find out their needs. Included among the gifts will be clothing, books, stationery, drawing mate¬rials, tobacco, candy, fruits and nuts. Assisting Mrs. Hull was Mrs. Bert Heilpern, chairman of the Fort Douglas Ladies club. The Fort Douglas Ladies club donated gifts requested of the Salt Lake county chapter. Mrs. Bert H. Heilpern, left, and Mrs. Irvin Hull look over gifts for patients at Utah State hospital, Provo, from chapters of Utah Red Cross hospital council in seven counties, Ogden Valley Setting Example in Disaster Preparedness Heading: Ogden valley's disaster preparedness are, left to right, Orville Graham, Eden; D. D. McKay, Hunts-ville, and William E. Hill, Liberty. The valley is the first community to lead out in the Red Cross pro¬gram of rural community disaster preparedness. |