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'I Had a Lovely Life'
March 6,1959-
Famed Nurse Recalls Fighting Illness Across World
By SALLY MacDOUGALL, Work was recreation when more family, Miss Fitzgerald
Cross Societies for every C
World-Telegram Staff Writer.
countries asked me to come was born in Florence and
try in the world, first nurs
"I'm not happy because I
and when there were doors to spent her childhood there
and
hold that position, with
responsibility of getting
can no longer do what I'd like
go through to work I could do in Switzerland and Stuttgart
ous countries to cooperate.
to be doing. Memories are not
to help people. I saw many
while her parents were living
In a lifetime with hosp
enough and my new glasses
kinds of disease but I never
abroad.
the saddest sights she
are no good. I can't even read."
was sick, not once in all my
She trained at Johns Hop
were in China, when she
Speaking was Alice Fitz-
life, not even in China when
kins, where she joined the Red
at the Rockefeller Foundati.
gerald, 85, once internationally
we were surrounded with
Cross and was sent to France
Hospital in Peking.
known for healing the hurts of
cholera."
by the Edith Cavell Memorial
"It was a common sigh
nations when she organized
A smiling nurse came in
fund. Her knowledge of Euro-
she recalled, "to see bo
hospital nursing services in
with a bundle of citations,
pean languages led to her se-
seven countries for the Ameri-
moored to piers in the riv
rolled up like diplomas, and
lection as chief nurse to rep-
one or more abandoned
can Red Cross and the Rocke-
placed them in Miss Fitz-
resent the American Red Cross
feller Foundation during and
tients in each, dying of ch
after World War I.
gerald's arms.
in Europe.
era. The natives were so af
In an invalid chair beside a
"Those old things!" she said
"Orders came from Wash-
of disease that they'd le
window in her small room in
and smiled. "Countries also
ington to our headquarters in
their sick and run away."
the Peabody Home, 1000 Pel-
gave me medals. I just sent
Paris. I was always being sent
As a reminder of China
ham Parkway, Bx., Miss Fitz-
my 16 medals to Johns Hop
somewhere at the request of
nurse unfolded a faded ne
gerald talked about her past.
kins Hospital, the French Me-
different countries where help
paper with the picture o
"I have had a lovely life,"
daille d'Honneur, the Florence
was needed to organize nurs-
Chinese official pinning a a
ALICE FITZGERALD.
she said. "I was so happy with
Nightingale medal and all the
ing services," she explained.
ration on the lapel of a b
my work in all those countries
others."
In Geneva she was made
tiful woman. It was Alice ]
that I never took a vacation.
A member of an old Balti-|head of the League of Red gerald.
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