Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "2661613",
    "label": "Hay, Helen Scott (2 of 2)",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2661613"
}

{
    "id": "2661613",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2661613",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Hay, Helen Scott (2 of 2)",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2661613",
    "collections": [
        "Records of the American National Red Cross",
        "Historical Nurse Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partnerships/40033/0001/DCD00073/40033_2421406259_0470/40033_2421406259_0470-00591.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partnerships/40033/0001/DCD00073/40033_2421406259_0470/40033_2421406259_0470-00591.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partnerships/40033/0001/DCD00073/40033_2421406259_0470/40033_2421406259_0470-00591.jpg",
    "imageCount": 159,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2661613",
    "naId": 2661613,
    "coverageEndDate": {
        "day": 4,
        "logicalDate": "1970-12-04",
        "month": 12,
        "year": 1970
    },
    "coverageStartDate": {
        "day": 28,
        "logicalDate": "1918-10-28",
        "month": 10,
        "year": 1918
    },
    "levelOfDescription": "fileUnit",
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 26,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partnerships/40033/0001/DCD00073/40033_2421406259_0470/40033_2421406259_0470-00616.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7fb418ef780eb5fd",
    "ocrText": "I\nNATIONAL OFFICERS\nCENTRAL COMMITTEE\nHERBERT HOOVER. PRESIDENT\nJOHN BARTON PAYNE, CHAIRMAN\nCALVIN COOLIDGE, VICE PRESIDENT\nTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS\nMRS. AUGUST BELMONT\nCORNELIUS N. BLISS\nCHARLES EVANS HUGHES. VICE PRESIDENT\nMABEL T. BOARDMAN\nTHOMAS D. THACRER, COUNSELOR\nMIDWESTERN BRANCH\nWILLIAM R. CASTLE, JR.\nOGDEN L. MILLS. TREASURER\nMRS. HENRY P. DAVISON\nMRS. FRANK v. HAMMAR\nMABEL T. BOARDMAN, SECRETARY\n1709 WASHINGTON AVE.\nSAMUEL KNIGHT\nST. LOUIS, MO.\nOGDEN L. MILLS\nS\nNATIONAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS\nMAJ. GEN. ROBERT u. PATTERSON\nGUSTAVUS D. POPE\nJOHN BARTON PAYNE. CHAIRMAN\nMRS. HENRY R. REA\nWM. M. BAXTER, JR.. MANAGER\nREAR\nADMIRAL CHARLES E. RIGGS\nC\nJAMES L. FIESER, VICE CHAIRMAN\nJOHN D. RYAN\nERNEST P. BICKNELL. VICE CHAIRMAN\nDecember 1, 1932.\nGEORGE E. SCOTT\nC\nJAMES K. McCLINTOCK, Vice CHAIRMAN\nHENRY UPSON SIMS\nTHOMAS D. THACHER\nELIOT WADSWORTH\n+\nA.R.: MAI ROOM\nREULICED\n+\nMi SS Clara D. Noyes, Director,\nNursing Service, American Red Cross\nDEC - 31932\nNational Headquarters,\nReferred to. W.S\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Miss Noyes:\nAs you know I attended Miss Hay's funeral last Sunday afternoon. I\narrived in Savanna late Saturday night and left there at 5:00 A.M. Monday morning.\nWhen I saw Miss Hay in the early Fall it did not seem that she could\nlive very long and my memory of her suffering at that time has haunted me ever since.\nI have not written as often as I might have done for the simple reason that I was\nafraid she felt obligated to answer, and I wanted to spare her that effort. But for\nseveral weeks prior to her death she had been much on my mind and I had & memo on my\ndesk to write her when the telegram arrived.\nHer family and friends tell me she rallied from the spell referred to\nand that she had been about until just three weeks before she died - in fact, she\nvoted on November 8, and was in church less than three weeks before she died.\nYou will remember my telling you that in addition to the obscure malady,\nshe developed a cancerous condition of the groin and pelvis and I was told too, that\nthey had made a belated diagnosis of her other trouble. She apparently had had a\nfracture of the skull at some time. The matter came to light I believe when she,\nMiss Hay, referred to an accident she had in Europe - I believe it was vhile riding\nin\na machine. It seems to me that I remember some talk about it when I first met\nMiss Hay in Europe. If that is true and if it coul have been determined sooner she\nmight have been apared all these tragic years of physical and mental tortures.\nJudging from what was said she suffered intensely during the last two\nor three weeks and her friends and family cannot help but be thankful that she has\nbeen relieved of further suffering. Her mind remained comparatively clear until the\nend, when she gave evidence of considerable confusion. Her determination, however,\nto help herself remained wi th her to the end.\nThe day, Sunday, was & clear, cold, but a sunshiny one, and it seemed\nas\nif the whole town of Savanna was paying tribute to Helen Scott Hay. The under-\ntaker, a lifelong friend of the family, prepared her for burial, and altho very, very\nthin she looked as she did when we first knew her - no evidence of the suffering she\nhad endured, but just peaceful and at rest. She was wearing a little shawl of the\nsoftest pastel shade that had recently been sent to her from India."
}