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    "ocrText": "9-12-27\nALICE L. FITZGERALD RECEIVES THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MEDAL.\nThe International Red Cross Committee at Geneva, Switzerland,\nupon recommendation of the Central Committee of the American Red Croes,\ncom\nhas conferred the Florence Nightingale Medal upon Alice L. Fitzgerald,\na\nmember of the American Red Cross Nursing Service.\nThe Medal is awarded to \"graduate nursee who may have espec-\nially distinguished themselves by exceptional devotion to the sick and\nwounded in peace and war.\" The awarding of such & Medal was decided\nupon at the time of the Ninth International Red Cross Conference in\nWashington, in May 1912, the bestowal of which was intended 88 the\nhighest honor that could be paid a nurse.\nThe following record of Miss Fitzgerald's life and service,\nwhich was submitted to the Committee, indicates a long and devoted\nadherence to the ideals and standards of the American Red Cross Nursing\nService:\nPlace of birth - Florence, Italy.\nEducated in Germany and France.\nGraduated from School of Nursing, Johne Hopkine Hospital, 1906.\nAssisted Messina Earthquake, 1908.\nHead Nurse, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1910-1911.\nOperating Room Nurse, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1911-1912.\nEnrolled American Red Cross Nursing Service, 1913.\nSupt. of Burses, Wilkes-Barre City hospital, Pa. 1912.\nAssigned to the British Expeditionary Forces, as Edith Cavell Memorial\nSuree, December 1917.\nTransferred to the American Red Cross in France, February, 1918.\nServed with the Service de Sante, France, 1918-1919.\nAssigned as Chief Nurse, American Red Cross Commission to Europe, May 1919.\nReleased from the American Red Cross to become the Director of the\nNursing Service, League of Red Cross Societies, Nov. 17, 1919.\nResigned from the League of Red Cross Societies in the fall of 1921 to\naccept appointment in the Philippines under the International Health\nBoard of the Rockefeller Foundation, to survey nursing and adviee Governor.\nReleased from the Philippines service in the fall of 1924.\nReturned to the League of Red Cross Societies for six months in 1925 to\nrelieve the Director of the Nursing Service.\nAssigned under the Rockefeller Foundation 8B Director of Nursing,\nSiriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Sima, 1926.\nDECORATIONS:\n1. Medaille d'honneur en Vermeil.\n2. Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise. X\n3. British Royal Red Cross.\n4. Silver Medal of the Polish Red Cross.\n5. Serbian Red Cross Medal.\n6. Italian Red Cross Disaster Relief Medal.\n7. Russian Red Cross Central Committee Medal.\n8. British Campaign Medal.\n9. Victory Medal awarded by the British."
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