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    "ocrText": "February 15, 1937\nProfessor Max Huber, President\nThe International Red Cross Committee\n122 Rue de Lausanne\nGeneva, Switzerland\nMy dear Professor Hubert\nWith reference to Circular No. 332, dated\nDecember 3, 1936, we have the honor to present to the\nInternational Red Cross Committee the name of Miss\nIda F. Butler as a candidate to receive the Florence\nNightingale Medal for 1937.\nMiss Butler is Director of Nursing Service\nof the American Red Cross. She has a record of intimate\nassociation with Red Cross work which dates back many years.\nSoon after her graduation from the Hartford Hospital School\nof Nursing she took active part in local Red Cross nursing\ncommittee work and taught classes in Home Hygiene and Care\nof the Sick. During the World War she W&B on active duty\nfor the Red Cross in France, where she organised the nurs-\ning work of two hospitals at Lyons for the repatriated\nchildren. This work was accomplished under difficult cir-\ncumstances but with much success.\nUpon Miss Butler's return to the United States\nshe was assigned by National Headquarters to take up lecture\nwork on the Chatauqua Circuit. Soon thereafter she was ap-\npointed assistant director of the Nursing Service of the\nAmerican Red Cross.\nHer professional life has been filled with an\nintense devotion to Red Cross interests and her entire of-\nfort for the past nineteen years, both professional and per-\nsonal, has been focused on Red Cross work. She has given\nherself, with loyalty and self-effacement and with long\ncontinued personal sacrifice, to forward and put into effect\nnational Red Cross Nursing policies. She has denonstrated an\nability to guide and facilitate the Red Cross work of persons,\ncommittees, and services, which has contributed greatly to the\nsuccess of such work."
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