The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-04-09
NURSES CONVENTION
ATLANTA NEXT week
Cobb County Honored On Official
Staff With Important
Craftsmanship
By Margaret T. McWhorter

week there will be staged in Atlanta
the largest convention of women ever
held in the United States, when the
American Nurses Association the Ma
tional League of Nursing Education
and the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing will coneven in
Biennial Session from April IL to IT.
This joint body will bring to At
lanta between three and four thous-
and delegates who will be represen-
tative of the Nursing and Social Serv-
ice forces, not only of the United
States but of several foreign coun-
tries as well.
The personel of this convention is
drawn from the highest ranks and is
evidence of the advances which have
been made along the line of Nursing,
Preventive Medicine, Public Health
and Public Health and Welfare work.
\ The program outlines a most COM
Iprehensive and exhaustive study of
every phase of these topics and the
wide and varied scope of the discus
sion of the subjects embraced give
promise of the most brilliant meet
ing of this class ever held in the
history of the world.
The United States government re-
trained nurse as community asset
and as mark of it's appreciation for
service whose keynote is rare COM
bination of helpfulness and unset
tishness, surgeon General M. W. Ire
land, of the United States army has
detailed the head nurses of thirty
army hospitals to report for duty at
Fort Mcpherson for the period of
the convention, with the ostensible
purpose of attending it's sessions,
while the chief nurses of the United
States Public Health Service have
also received orders from Surgeon
general Rupert Blue to attend this
convention and headquarters have
been secured for thsi division at the
Marion Hotel, while the chief nurses
of the army hospitals will be enter
tanned at Fort Mcpherson, provision
for which has been made by Col.
Bratton, Commandant of the post.
The business sessions will be held
at the Baptist Tabernacle while the
evening sessions which will be open to
the general public will occur at the
Auditorium. On the evening of
April 18th, a mammoth reception of
a welcoming nature will be held at
the Auditorium, while the meeting at
the same place on Thursday evening
VIII be given over to the American
Red Cross and will be known as Red
Cross night. The program on this &C.
casion will embrace reports of Red
Cross work, an address by DR.. Living
ston Farrand and a beautiful and
touching memorial service to the Red
Cross nurses who gave up their lives
IN overseas duty. This celebration
Will be held upon the second anniver-
sary of the death of Miss Jane Delano
which occurred in Savenay, France.
Georgia has been represented by
the selection Of Miss Jane Van de
Vrede, Superintendent of Nurses for
the Southern Division A. R. c., who
Will read two papers, one each be-
fore the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing and the Ma
tional League for Nursing Education.
Papers on timely topics will be read
by DR.. Michael Hoke, DR.. Stewart
Roberts and DR.. J. E. Faullin.
The international Council of
Nureses will send delegates from
Canada, Holland, Denmark and Fin
land.
Among the distinguished members
of the Nursing profession who will
attend and take an active part in the
convention will be Miss Julia C. Stin-
son, head of the Army Nurse Corps,
Miss Lucy Mimigrode, head of the
United States Public Health Service
and Miss Clara D. Noyes, Director
General of the Red Cross Nursing
Service.
Miss Jane Van de Vrede, Publicity
Chairman for the Convention has
made announcement of the following
committee chairmen:
Miss Martha Giltner, Chairman
Local Committee; Miss Jessie Can
dish, Chairman Committee on acco-
modations; Miss Eva Tupman, Chair
man Committee on exhibits; Miss
Virginia P. Gibbes, Chairman of Hos
tesses; Miss Gertrude Avout, Chair
man on automobiles; Mrs. J. A. Mat
thews, Bureau of information; Miss
Anna Brundidge, Registration; Miss
Olive Chapman, Halls and meeting
places; Miss MaryKeip, Chairman
music committee.
Marietta and Cobb County have
been greatly honored by the oppoint-
,ment of Miss Virginia P Gibbs, Pub
lie Health Nurse for Cobb County, as
official Hostess for the convention.
On her committee there will be hos
tesses for each state in the Union.
This annointYnent has heen nar+ic,1