Evening star., 1937-04-25
RED CROSS GIVES
AWARDSFORW WORK
Graduates of Eight Courses
Will Receive Certificates
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Graduates of eight Red Cross
courses will receive certificates and
other awards for work done during
the last year at annual graduation
exercises of the District of Columbia
Chapter of the Red Cross at pm.
tomorrow in chapter headquarters,
;, 1880 E street.
Brig. Gen. A. B. Warfield, member
I OF the chapters Executive Committee,
, Will speak briefly on his experiences
in the recent Ohio Valley floods. Brig.
Gen. F.. R. Keefer, chairman of the
chapter, will preside Miss Mabel T.
:, Boardman, chairman of special vol
: unteer services, will review the VOL
/. unteer courses.
. The Army Band will provide
music.
Miss Gertrude Laughlin, chairman
. OF the Staff Assistance Corps, will pre-
:. sent pins and certificates to the fol-
, lowing graduates of the staff assist
ance class: Thelma Cleland, Jean
White, Helene Roosevelt Poole, Flea
: nor Peirce, Harrison De Kay, Mary
Holland, Dorothy Cassard Henrietta
Smither, Judith Reynolds, Lucille
Boyd, Virginia Palmer and Martha
Talley.
; Awards for Braille.
Miss Adelia M Hoyt, assistant di-
!. rector, Service for the Blind, at the
: Library OF Congress, will present GER
! eflcates to seven who have learned to
transcribe Braille in the last year.
!. Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, chairman of
: Che Hospital and Recreation Service,
will introduce to Admiral P. S. Ros-
: sitter. surgeon general of the Navy,
the Gray Ladies who have completed.
their training course during the last
year at Walter Reed Hospital, United
. States Naval Hospital and Episcopal
: Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, total
. Ing Al.
group studying nutrition under
Mrs. William G.. Finn will be intro
duced. Miss Alice Dix will repre-
sent nutrition students at the Flor
ence Crittenton Home.
One hundred and thirty students
will receive certificates in home hy-
giene and care of the sick from Miss
j. Beatrice Bowman, chairman of
the Nursing Activities Committee
Among the graduates will be Countess
Roberti of the Italian Embassy, Nine.
Dimitriu of the Rumanian Legation,
Nine. Schlatter of the Swiss Lega-
ton, Miss Tudela of Peru and Mrs.
Robert Joyce of the State Depart
ment. Included in the home hygiene
group also are class of Americana
Eation school women, an underpriv-
ileged group, a class of business wom-
en- and a class of colored home
makers.
20 Are Health Aids"
From these 1870 home hygiene and
care of the sick students, 20 have
become health aids" and are volun-
teering their assistance in local hos
pital and health department clinics,
under the director of Mrs. Henry G.
Wood chairman of the Health Aid
Corps
The Red Cross gave six swimming
lessons each to 1850 children anG
2,486 passed the beginners and SWIM
mers' tests, while 489 have taken the
more advanced course in life saving.
All of these groups will be represented
at the graduation exercises and will
; be reviewed by Dr. Richard E. Dunk
b ley. vice chairman of the First Aid
and Life-saving Service.
DR.. r. Lyman Sexton, chairman Of
the First Aid and Iife-savinp Serv-
ice, will greet representatives of the
l,705 students who have received first
aid certificates in the chapter ii the
past year. These include firemen,
policemen, nurses, school and college
students, Boy Scout leaders, Sea
Scouts, special agents of the Depart
ment of Justice and countless Others
-Four members of the motor corps
who took the first-aid course will be
reviewed by Mrs. H. r. Krinbill, chair
man Of the motor corps.