Evening star., 1943-05-16
Two Mothers and Their Daughters Combine
To Make Nurses Aide Work FamilyAffair

Find Worthwhile
Jobs Effectively
Done by Teaming Up
By Betty Smith.
Two mothers and daughters are
on the roster OF Red Cross Nurses
Aides for the District of Columbia
and fine looking "teams" they
make too. The mothers figures
are as trim and youthful as the
girls in their spic and span gray
blue and white uniforms. To be a
nurses aide you must be over l8
or under so. so you see the moth
ers have to be young too.
The two teams of which the
Red Cross is justly proud are Mrs.
Russell Ellis Sard and her daugh-
ter Miriam Douglass Scott (more
popularity known as Mimi
ScotD and Mrs. Alfred Kay and
her daughter Audrey. In both In
stances the daughters preceded
their mothers in taking the
nurses aide course-but 1t hasn't
taken the senior partners long to
catch up and now they all are
doing splendid jobs.
Young Miss Scott has applied
for overseas service as a club
mobile girl, and it was mainly this
that motivated her mothers TAX
ing the nurses aid course. She
wanted to fill Minis place
when Mimi goes of. To date the
Red Cross has sent no nurses
aides overseas, but II and when
they do Miss Scott will be quail
fed for thai service as well as the
Mobile Canteen.
AS Rebekah Wilmer, daughter
Of the late and famed eye special
ist, DR.. William Holland Wilmer,
and Mrs. Wilmer, Mrs. Sard was
considered one Of the outstanding
beauties of Washington. She still
is lovely to look at and young
Mimi followed closely in her
mothers footsteps when she was
presented to Washington society
several years ago and was just as
much Of a belle at all those be-
fore-th -the-war festivities.
Mimi" completed her nurses
aide course in 1941. She has done
way over the required number Of
hours serving in Emergency and
Georgetown Hospitals; and, last
summer when she was in VIM
chester she worked during the
week as a nurses aide at the hos
pital there, taking short breath
ing-spell vacation week ends with
her grandmother, Mrs Wilmer, at
her lovely old place near Boyce,
Va.
Mrs. Sard took her course last
year and has done most of her
service at Emergency Hospital to
date. She hopes later to include
service at the Children's Hospital
too, for she has been member
of the ooatd there for some years.
She and her daughter share
many likes and interests. When
there used to be time for it, both
loved to ride, to play tennis and
to ski. Now both find doing their
bit to help win the war the most
exciting and worthwhile thing
they've ever done.
The Kays are fairly new to
Washington, although you'd
never guess 1t to look At the
charming and completely settled
house which they bought in
Georgetown from Justice and
Mrs. Robert. It's the most lived
In, comfortable and relaxing
house you ever saw in your life.
And the Kays moved in only
week or so before Christmas.
I'VE had to get it settled right
away" says Mrs. Kay, ito be
ready for Christmas"
So that was that. And now
they love it and so, we imagine,
do all their friends. And it looks
as though the Kays had lived
there all their lives.
It was because of Mr.. Kays'
work with the ONCE OF Censor
ship that the Kay family moved
to the Nations Capital. They
have a house in Florida and 1t
was at the Good Samaritan Hos
pital in West Palm Beach that
Audrey took her nurses aide
course.
They also have an honest-to-
goodness working farm OF 500
acres with cattle and crops and
everything in New Jersey. Mrs.
Kay knows a lot about farming.
too. She already has published
two books on horticulture and
numerous magazine articles on
the same subject. And she edited
the charming little best seller.
The World Was My Garden"
by DR.. David Fairchild.
She is an attractive woman
both to look at and to talk to.