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B - - + IN Copy forwarded to Local Committee at Evansville, Ind. M THE AMERICAN RED CROSS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS ar, WASHINGTON, D. C. September 21, 1938 Miss Marian V. Bilta, Forest Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana My dear Miss Bilts: a We are glad to find that you meet the requirements for enrollment as a Red Cross nurse. This means that you are a graduate of an accredited school of nursing connected with a hospital caring for a minimum daily average of fifty patients, or in event of your having graduated from a small school, you have supplemented your training by affiliation or by postgraduate courses; you are registered; a member of the American Nurses' Association and a citizen of the United States. It, therefore, gives us pleasure to accept your appli- cation and we are mailing your appointment card and badge, No. 71,413 to you under separate cover. Will you please ac- knowledge receipt of these credentials on the postal card which accompanies them and for verification kindly give your number. It is important that you keep us informed of any change you may make in your name or in your address, in order that we may be aware of your whereabouts in event of an opportunity for service under the Red Cross. Each year an address questionnaire form will reach you from the Committee with which you are enrolled. This should be filled in and promptly returned to the address given on the questionnaire. Your failure to do this for two consecutive years places you in the Third Reserve, or inactive classification in the Red Cross Nursing Service. Sincerely yours, the Chairman, National Committee, Red Cross Nursing Service.

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