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August 5, 1919.
Mr. George F. Oxley,
Division Manager,
Mountain Division, American Red Cross,
14th & Welton Streets,
Denver, Colorado.
My dear Mr. Oxley:
I want to write you a personal letter concerning a problem
to which the Committee on Awards at National Headquarters has been giv-
ing very serious thought in the past few weeks, namely the advisability
and means of distributing a limited number of silver and bronze medals
to our workers in this country.
As you know, the War Council appointed the Committee on
Awards, and directed it to arrange for the distribution of service in-
signia, and gold, silver and bronze medals to commemorate exceptional
service of various kinds rendered our organization during the war.
It was originally planned to limit the award of silver med-
als to twenty-five, and to award bronze medals only to families of those
Red Cross workers who had died while rendering war service. Already,
ten silver medals have been awarded through the Belgian Commission, al-
though no bronze medals have as yet been distributed.
The Committee on Awards at Headquarters has received recom-
mendations from many of the foreign Commissions for the award of silver
and bronze medals, and immediately the question arose as to how to deal
with the situation at home. We all appreciate that it will be absolutely
impossible to reward all those who have, unselfishly, heroically and
in the most splendid Red Cross spirit, done their duty, and yet it did
not seem proper to take special recognition of distinguished and
meritorious service performed for our organization abroad and fail to
provide some means by which such service in this country could be cor-
respondingly recognized. The Committee consequently decided to award
bronze medals not only to those families of workers who died while per-
forming war work for the Red Cross, but to make our National, Division-
al and Chapter workers eligible for the silver and bronze medal as well.
It is planned to distribute in all approximately fifty silver medals and
three hundred bronze medals.
The plan was originally considered to have each Chapter make
recommendations to Divisions, and have these recommendations after being
passed upon in the Divisions, transmitted to National Headquarters, and
yet, upon mature consideration, it seemed that the operation of such a
plan, in view of the limited number of medals for disposal, would re-
sult in many recommendations and many disappointments. As an alterna-
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