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    "ocrText": "-2-\nNursing Service from 1936 to 1938 after 16 years in the post of assistant\nnational director; and was climaxed by the past ten years' service to her state\nand community as Nursing Activities Chairman of the Hartford Red Cross Chapter.\nBut there were many other significant highlights in the interim.\nSince 1906, five years after her graduation from the Hartford Hos-\npital School of Nursing, Miss Butler had been enrolled as one of the first\nAmerican Red Cross nurses - enrollment #248. Enrollment, and its importance\nto the individual nurse as well as to the military and the Red Cross, remained\nher chief interest and activity throughout her varied Red Cross career. Enrolled\nRed Cross nurses in every state in the country and in our Insular and Foreign\npossessions all have benefitted from her ability as an organizer.\nThroughout the years, she applied this knowledge to quick action in\nrecruiting nurses for World War I duty, in recruiting nurses for the huge Red\nCross rehabilitation task after the 1927 Mississippi flood; in directing\nrecruitment of 3,600 nurses in the record 1937 Ohio-Mississippi flood; and\nas chairman of nursing service for the Connecticut State Defense Council in\n1940 when Governor Baldwin appointed her chairman of the associate committee\nof nurses of the Emergency Medical Service of the Governor's War Council. At\nthe same time, she was serving as recruitment chairman for World War II nurses\nin the Hartford Red Cross chapter.\nMiss Butler was one of the earliest volunteer nurse instructors in\nRed Cross Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick, forerunner of the current courses\nin home nursing. During the fifteen years following her nursing school gradu-\nation in which she held supervisory positions in the Hartford Hospital, before\njoining the Red Cross national staff in 1918, she taught Red Cross classes in\nher afternoons off duty - her first service to the organization.\nMiss Butler's career - like those of her contemporaries Miss Boardman,\nMiss Delano and Miss Noyes - was a refutation of a well-worn phrase, for she\nknew no \"declining years.\" The chronology of age was not a barrier but an"
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