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    "ocrText": "Fl\n1911 Red Cross Girl\nStill Active as Nurse\nBY RAY MI URPHY\nD\nA 71 year old Chicago wo-\nman will be with them in\nspirit, if not in fact, when\nRed Cross nurses take part\ntoday in special pageants and\nopen houses thruout the coun\ntry to honor the 95th birthday\nof Jane A Delano founder of\nthe Red Cross nursing erv\nand Loday.\nice\nThe worman, Miss Alma years of public health nurs-\nFoerster. of 5946 East Circle ing.\nav., a Red Cross nurse sincè It didn't tire her a bit How\n1911, isn't working today- long is she going to keep at\nbut don't get the idea she's it? As long as can wiggle,\"\ngone on the inactive list.\nshe said yesterday\nStill Active as Narse\nMiss Foerster, born near\nElgin. moved to Chicago in\nGetting ready to celebrate 1803 She attended Garfield\nher 72d birthday in July, Miss and Joseph Medill schools be:\nFoerster still works every fore taking nursing training\nSunday and every holiday alland wa among the first group\nPresbyterian hospital, where of nurses to join the Red Cross\nshe was graduated from nurs- service.\ning school in 1910 and set off Her Red Cross pin has two\non a career that took her bars on it-one for her first\naround the world thru a flood voluntecr job aiding the in-\ndisaster, World War I. and jured during the 1913 storm)\nand flood at Dayton, 0., the\nother for her volunteer work\nin behind-the-fron hospitals\nin Europe in World War I.\nServes When Needed\nAtter that war she devoted\nmost of her career to public\nhealth nursing-for the same\nreason she joined the Red\nCross and still works Sundays\nand holidays.\nSubs Reroute Her\n\"I like to serve when I'm\nmost needed The nurses at\nShe returned to the United\nthe hospital like to take those\nStates after her tour of duty,\ndays off and be with their\nbut again volunteered when\nfamilies,\nsai\nMiss\nF\nCorster\nanother call for help was is-\nwho lives with her sister, Mrs.\nsued in 1917\nFlora Dreyer.\nThe first trip was across\nFoerster went to Eu-\nthe Atlantic The second, be-\nSO I bN\ncause of German submarine\nactivity took her around the\nin a year's time shook world-to ussia and Ro-\nwith the dowager empress and mania, via the Pacific. the Sea\nthe czar of Russia and thejof Japan and the trans-Si-\nqueetion EBM VBEY\nberian railroad\nBED CK022\n2071\nu"
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