| Description |
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 SERVICE GROUPS PLAYING an important part in the services per¬formed by Red Cross volunteers are the nine specialized Service Groups, whose efforts are an essential part of every Red Cross program. The 2 58,000 members of these groups chalked up increases in achievement all along the line last year. In the Far East 3,600 women were organized and trained to help wives and children evacuated from Korea, serve the wounded, fill kit bags for the able-bodied, work in the hospitals, and per¬form thousands of other personal services. They accumulated 477,000 hours of service; made 627,000 surgical dressings, bandages, and wound pads to be flown to front line aid stations; pur¬chased, wrapped, and mailed for combat soldiers 100,000 gifts to the United States; and eased the discomfort and anxiety of thousands of individuals. In the United States an equally dramatic and important job was done. Gray Ladies provided their familiar and wel¬come personal services in military, veterans, and 24 SERVICE GROUPS ANSWER THEIR CALL A paralyzed veteran in his hospital bed needs contact with the outside world, needs daily assur¬ance that life still has meaning and warmth. A crippled child needs daily transportation for clinical treatment. Thousands of acts of gener¬osity, thoughtfulness, and consideration for those in need or pain must be performed each day if even a tiny part of the world's distress is to be lightened. Through your help— the Red Cross can answer their call. civilian hospitals, working a total of 3,540,000 hours during the fiscal year—a million more than in the previous year. Motor Service drivers on routine and emer¬gency calls put 10,794,100 miles on their speed¬ometers, an increase of nearly 2 million miles over the year before. Under the spur of the increasingly critical shortage of professional nursing staffs in hospi¬tals throughout the country, volunteer nurse's aides served 92 5,800 hours in blood centers, hospitals, and clinics. Staff aides served more widely than in any pre¬vious year of the organization's history, expand¬ing into many new fields of chapter activity and serving a total of 1,5 58,000 hours. Canteen workers also extended their opera¬tions last year to include disaster and civil defense preparation and dock operations for servicemen 25 |
