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    "ocrText": "2 -\nExcerpts from Miss Butler's folder continued -\nA SALUTE AND FAREWELL\n\"On November 16, 1938, Miss Ide F. Butler resigns from service with the American\nRed Cross. Miss Butler graduated from the Hartford Hospital School of Nursing,\nHartford, Connecticut in 1901. For fifteen years she held supervisory positions in\nthat hospital. Ear first Red Cross service was given as a volunteer instructor in\nHome Hygiene and Care of the Sick in South Manchester, Connecticut during her\nafternoons off duty while she was Supervisor of the Hartford Hospital. As\nChairman and Secretary of the Hartford Local Committee on Red Cross Nursing\nService, Miss Butler recruited nurses for war service until assigned to Foreign\nService under the American Red Cross in January 1918.\nShe was appointed Chief Nurse, Children's Hospital, Lyon, France, returning to\nAmerica just before the signing of the Armistice. In the fall of 1918, Miss\nButler was attached to the Speakers' Bureau as Roll Call speaker. On December\n1st of that same year, she organized and supervised a convalescent home for in-\nfluenza sufferers under the suspices of the Pietrict of Columbia Red Cross\nChapter. There followed a fifteen weeks' tour as Red Creat speaker on the\nChautauque program, during which time she made 190 speeches in 95 smell towns.\nMiss Butler served as Director of the Fourteenth Division of the American Red\nCross, known then as Foreign and Insular Division, previous to becoming Assistant\nDirector, Nursing Service in 1920. This position she held until the death of\nMiss Noyes, June 3, 1936, at which time she was made Director of Nursing Service.\nThe Florence Nightingale Medal was awarded to Miss Butler by the International\nCommittee at Geneva. The presentation was made by the late Cary T. Grayson\non June 4, 1937, in front of the Amorican Nurses' Memorial which stands in the\nRed Cross garden.\nDuring & lifetime of service and outstanding contribution to her profession,\nwe find the greatest number of years, representing time and effort, have been\ngiven to Red Cross nurse enrollment. The enrolled Red Cross nurse everywhere has\nprofitted by her ability as an organizer. The attention to detail without losing\nsight of the broader aspects, has made it possible for her to guide the State\nand Local Committees 30 effectively that today there are Red Cross nurses in every\nState as well as in our Insular and Foreign possessions.\nIt is hard to think that the time is coming when she will not be here every day\nbut true to the spirit that has dominated her entire life, she wants us to turn\nto her for help and guidance. / The many years of devoted service to the Fed Cross\nhas really represented all of her professional life because from the very early\ndays of her nursing career, she saw in our organization the finest expression\nof the best in nursing. From those early days she identified herself with it.\nThere is no one who has given to the Red Gross more loyal, patient, intelligent\nand devoted years.\nIf we counted all the letters of gratitude, appreciation and affection which have\ncome into this office since her resignation has become known, we might begin to have\na little measure of the esteem in which dear Miss Ida Butler is held by Red Cooss\nnurses and members of Red Cross State and Local Committees all over this country.\nThe loving expression of these letters which we have here on file provide vivid\nevidence that nurses all over the country know how to value such qualities. Miss\nButler has invaluably strengthened and deepened the value of Red Cross nursing.\""
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