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TO:
All Division Managers
Date:
August 9, 1919.
FROM:
General Manager
Supplementing the General Manager's letters of November 25, 1918, and January
21, 1919, covering the subject of the awarding of Red Cross Service Certificates and
Insignia, I desire to call your attention further to the rulings of the Committee on
Awards at National Headquarters. The Committee will shortly publish a detailed description
of all Red Cross Insignia and proposes to issue with such description plates showing
the various insignia in color.
EXECUTIVE BADGE.
Before proceeding, I would like to clear up a misunderstanding which has
resulted from the publication in the April number of the Red Cross Magazine of a color
plate of Red Cross Insignia. That color plate was inserted prematurely before the
Committee on Awards had been able to fully consider every design for Red Cross Insignia
and all details in connection with its use, and without having been called to the
attention of the General Manager.
The above mentioned color plate used a design for an Executive's badge and
we have received a number of inquiries from Divisions concerning the issuance of such
insignia. After mature deliberation, the Committee on Awards has decided not to issue
any badge for Executives, the underlying reason being that the distribution of such an
award would be undemomcratic. In the Red Cross we have all worked as best we could
handling such matters as came within our province. The selection of certain classes of
members in places of authority in the Division or Chapter organization, who would
automatically receive special award has seemed to the Committee to be contrary to the
spirit of our organization.
SERVICE CERTIFICATES AND SERVICE INSIGNIA
Some confusion seems to have resulted in the interpretation of the third
paragraph of the General Manager's letter of January 21, which sets forth the minimum
service required for the issuance of Service Certificates and Service Insignia. While
800 hours of service performed during the war is the minimum of time which will entitle
a worker to receive a service certificate and service badge suspended from a plain blue
ribbon, it is not necessary that this minimum of 800 hours be rendered within any given
six month's périod. If the service rendered during the war aggregated 800 hours,
regardless of the duration of the time necessary for the completion of that minimum of
800 hours, provided it covered a period of at least six months, then the workers is
entitled to receive a Service Certificate and Service Insignia.
SERVICE CERTIFICATES AND SERVICE INSIGNIA FOR FOREIGN PERSONNEL.
It has been decided to issue Forign Service Certificates and Insignia bearing
the words "Foreign Service" to those of the Red Cross personnel who have served the
requisite time overseas, and to issue similar certificates and insignia to all nurses
who have been enrolled through the Red Cross and assigned to duty abroad with the
armed forces of our country. Nutses enrolled through the Red Cross, who have served in
this country, should be given Service Certificates and Service Badges under the same
conditions which apply to all other workers. The services of the Division Directors of
Nursing have been enlisted in determining these awards. Nurses who have served abroad,
and who may inquire concerning the award of Foreign Service Certificates and Insignia,
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