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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 All May Help. . . All of us have an instinctive impulse to help someone in need. Perhaps it is while an accident victim’s precious lifeblood flows away . . . perhaps it is while we listen to the tense voice of a newscaster describing the panic, the cold, the hunger, the despair and utter misery of families made suddenly homeless by disaster. Each year the millions who need help and the millions who want to help are brought together through the Red Cross. The trained first aider steps from the crowd to staunch the flow of blood . . . the Gray Lady makes the clock tick faster for the paralyzed veteran . . . the flood victim’s cry for help is answered with food, with shelter, with medical care. This impulse to help is as old as the human heart. With their skills . . . with their time . . . with their money . . . all may help through the Red Cross. 4 . . . through your Red Cross A battery of newscasters broadcasting continuously 24 hours every day could never finish telling the Red Cross story. It is a story written each moment in 3,745 Red Cross chapters throughout the country. It is a story you helped write. Through the Red Cross during the past year you made it possible for: 228,515 persons to be assisted in 330 domestic disaster relief operations. more than 2,000,000 servicemen, veterans, and their dependents to receive Red Cross assistance, some of it financial, in working out personal and family problems. thousands of hospitalized servicemen to have the help of Red Cross social workers in restoring sick minds and bodies. Red Cross field directors to present more than 67,500 veterans’ claims to Veterans Administration rating boards. more than 300 chapters to participate in the Red Cross National Blood Program. 1,113,120 persons to be trained in first aid, water safety, and accident prevention 126,894 persons to receive home nursing instruction. more than 220,000 trained volunteers to give almost 12,000,000 hours of community service through the many Red Cross programs you support. 19 million children in Junior Red Cross to serve others through their Red Cross chapters. These are the highlights of last year’s accomplishments. The story is detailed in the following pages. 5 |
