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D12860-2
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- 1942-06-02 (Creation)
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Publicity Picture- Red Cross nurses receive caps, Home Nursing Union Hall. These women are proud new additions to the Red Cross Volunteer Nurses' Aide Corps. They have completed 80 hours of preliminary training and will now give 150 hours of service assisting graduate nurses in the wards of local hospitals, after which certificates will be issued. On June 2, 1942, caps and pins were awarded to the ten graduates and a tea was held in their honor. Pictured in the seated row, left to right, are Ann Bradley, Jean Mohn, Mrs. A.D. Fay, Mrs. Charles R. Low (RN instructor), Mrs. G.W. Viert, Fay B. Shaw and Myrna Miller. Standing, L to R, Emery Asbury, Dorothea Schumacher, Katheryn Rankos, Adelina Innocenti, Anna Olson, Mary McLane, Mary Ann Hall and Milton J. Evans. Over 25, 000 nurses aides had been trained nationally in the past six months. Volunteers ranged in age from 18-50. (T. Times 6/3/1942, pg. 1)
Nurses--Tacoma--1940-1950; American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma);