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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 Red Cross Consultant Rewards Ogdenite 12/15 NURSES' AIDE RECEIVES BAR FOR 150 HOURS High Honor Is Awarded To Mrs. John S. Gingrich For completing her required 150 hours of voluntary service, Mrs. John S. Gingrich, Red Cross nurses' aide of unit IV, Monday received from Miss Lois Goodman, Ameri¬can Red Cross nursing consultant of San Francisco, a white bar. Mrs. Gingrich distinguished her¬self in the service by putting in her 150 hours in 18 days from the time of her graduation from the nurses' aide course. Mrs. Oetta B. Glasscock, director of nurses at Dee hospital, present¬ed Mrs. Gingrich with a certificate of accomplishment from the hos¬pital. Patriotic Spirit Miss Goodman, who is in Ogden for conferences with the county chapter's committees on nurses' aides and home nursing, congrat¬ulated the Ogden nurses' aide com¬mittee on the results of its work despite the handicap of so many women being employed in defense industries, thus reducing the num¬ber available for nurses' aid train¬ing. Mrs. Gingrich is the first woman of the four units to complete her voluntary service required of nurses' aides, in such short time. She said she has made nurses' aide volunteer service her war contri¬bution and she intends to accomp¬lish a total of 500 hours' service as soon as possible to qualify for an¬other merit bar. "I love the work," Mrs. Gin¬grich said. "I can hardly wait for morning so that I can go back on duty. I leave home at seven-fifteen with my husband when he goes to work. This is my war job, and I couldn't have found a more inter¬esting one." The fact that Mrs. Gingrich often works eight or nine hours a day at the hospital as a volunteer bears out her contention that the serv¬ice is interesting. NURSING OFFICIAL VISITS. . . Shown above at the Dee hospital when Miss Lois Goodman, Amer¬ican Red Cross nursing consultant, San Francisco, paid her official visit, are: (Left to right), Mrs. Oetta B. Glasscock, director of nursing at Dee hospital; Mrs. Leonard G. Diehl, chairman Nurses' aid; Mrs. John S. Gingrich, Red Cross Nurses' aide of Unit IV, who has completed 158 ½ hours in 18 ½ days; and Miss Goodman.—Staff photo. "Nurses' aides are doing a mag¬nificent service in assisting reg¬istered nurses in hospitals through¬out the land so that more trained nurses may be released from civil¬ian service to help the armed forces of the United States," said Miss Goodman, when she made the presentation. "Five thousand addi¬tional nurses are needed by the government, and the more women like Mrs. Gingrich who volunteer their assistance, the more profes¬sionally-trained women can re¬spond to their country's summons." Mrs. Leonard G. Diehl, chairman of nurses' aides for Weber county Red Cross chapter, said registra-tions are now being accepted for the evening aide class which be¬gins January 18. "We are asking early enroll¬ment," Mrs. Diehl stated, "as ap¬plicants are expected to take thor¬ough physical examinations and immunizations before the class be¬gins." Doctors Cooperating Doctors of Ogden are cooperat¬ing with the program by giving free examinations and the district health office is providing the im¬munizations as a public service, the chairman said. Women interested in making nurses' aid work their contribution to victory may register at the Red Cross office in the city-county building any day except Saturday for the evening course. Women al-ready employed in some phase of defense work were urged by Mrs. Diehl to stay with that particular job-rather than to attempt nurses' aide work also. "Whatever your war job," she said, "undivided attention to it will pay the biggest victory divi¬dends. If you are already giving service, continue to do so. If you are not, why not select nurses' aide for your donation to the defeat of the axis?" |