Home nursing is another important project of Red Cross work. Mrs. L. W. Overstreet is chairman of the chapter in Ogden, assisted by Mrs. Robert J. Spain and Mrs. Ernest Miner. The group is headed by a large staff of registered nurses and authorized Red Cross nurses as instructors. They are Mrs. M. J. Seidner, Mrs. Katherine W. Echenbrecht, Mrs. Minerva Burton Hadley, Miss Lucille Taylor, Mrs. Roy Thorstensen, Mrs. Leslie C. West, Mrs. James M. DeVine, Miss Lillian Albrecht, Mrs. Jessie Lucile P. Cain, Mrs. H. Earl Rushmer and Mrs. Fontella T. Jensen. Classes are organized just as quickly as there is a demand for them and there is a membership of twenty in each class. Home nursing, according to Mrs. Overstreet, requires twenty-four hours…two hours a week, over a period of twelve weeks. After this work is completed an examination is given and a certificate issued by the national Red Cross organization. “This certificate, however, does not give the home nurse the privilege of serving as a practical nurse,” Mrs. Overstreet explained. “It gives her only a knowledge of nursing in the home.” “As nursing and medical aid becomes more inadequate as time goes on in the duration of the war,” Mrs. Overstreet stated, “the knowledge of home nursing, acquired by the parents, will aid materially in lessening the demand for medical aid in the homes.” Some of the duties taught the home nursing group by the instructors are the elementary care of illness in the home, including how to give medicine as prescribed by physicians; to take temperatures and apply hot packs; to care for persons with contagious diseases and how to isolate them; also about the periods of quarantine for these contagious diseases; how to give bed baths, to make a bed while an ill person is in it and how to make unoccupied bed. It also acquaints them with the laws governing milk inspection, restaurant inspection for sanitation and the general set-up of the local health department. “It has been very gratifying to find so many people ready to take up this work in addition to their many personal responsibilities,” Mrs. Overstreet concluded. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1942 The staff assistants and recep¬tionists for the Red Cross also play an important part in the function¬ing of the great organization. Mrs. William H. Loos, chairman of these two organizations, states that it is amazing how cooperative the wo¬men are in offering their services in promoting this phase of the work. Their duties take in office work, and serving as an informa¬tion bureau to the people coming into the Red Cross rooms with the various inquiries. "Many parents come in with in¬quiries as to the whereabouts of their sons and if the Red Cross can be of assistance in locating them," Mrs. Loos stated. "We im¬mediately take the information and confer with Mrs. Clyde T. Greenwell, executive secretary of the Red Cross, who in turn starts a tracer on these boys." She continued: "It is really thrilling to be able to assist in this great cause, and one has an oppor¬tunity of broadening her viewpoint on life materially in this work. She really learns that one side of the world knows so little about how the other side gets along." Mrs. Loos also explained that it is her duty to ration out clothes for the unfortunates who apply to the Red Cross for aid in this re¬spect. The office force is run system¬atically also. When there is need for work to be done, these volun¬teers may be called, upon a min¬ute's notice, to report to the Red Cross rooms. "They are always willing to re¬spond," Mrs. Loos said, "and it is gratifying to work with them."