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    "ocrText": "A. R. C\nF\nAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS\nAUG16\nINTER-OFFICE LETTER\nCENTRAL DIVISION OFFICE\nCHICAGO\nRink\n191918\nDate August\n13,\n1918.\nTo\nMiss Jane A. Delano\nTOWN AUG & COUNTRY SERVICE. NURSING\nFrom Miss Minnie H. Ahrens\n#1158\nSubject\nL.E.\n-P.H\nI have written Mrs. Gretter concerning Special Service Chevron. Mrs.\nGretter is in all probability physically fit and could be assigned to some\nof the service to which nurses are being assigned at the present time,\ntherefore if she qualifies physically I do not see why she could not be\neligible for the Special Service. I should think it would be a mistake\nto issue a chevron on any other basis, because if it is issued to one, there\nare many others who have given very splendid service, and we feel that the\nsame recognition should be given them In fact, Mrs* Foy at the Sanitarium,\nBattle Creek, is one of these women. She has been a very ardent worker\nin recruiting nurses for service in that section, but I feel quite sure that\nMrs. Foy would not qualify physically on account of a goitre, and then, too,\nshe could not go into active service because she has with her an aged and\ninvalid father.\nI am expecting to be in Detroit on the 29th of August and have told Mrs.\nGretter that I would confer further with her regarding this matter. I am\nsure Mrs. Gretter herself would not wish the chevron unless she was eligible.\nPersonally I feel that the issuing of the chevron should be done with a good\ndeal of care and not make it possible to have this a recognition for many\nwomen who are neither eligible for service or ho may not be ready to serve\nwhen they are really needed. In the minds of many it was thought that if a\nwoman was carrying responsible work in her community, the Red Cres should\ngive this recognition. This point of view I cannot see, as the woman was\ndoing this work before the war, why should she be given special recognition\nfor it at this time unless it is keeping her from going into active service?\nWe are having a committee meeting on Friday of this week and have fifty ready\nto be acted upon. As per your instructions, we have forwarded your communi-\ncation with blanks to the othr Division Office. There is some question in\nmy mind whether we have not more on these blanks than is really essential, but\nI think although this may be true, it has not been bad, as it has made nurses\nrealize that we expect definite information concerning not only themselves,\nbut the institution which is making the request. It has had a good psychological\neffect.\nHope it is not as warm in Washington as it is in this part of the country, but\nfear that it is. This weather makes it pretty hard to carry the heavy load which\nmust be shouldered these days.\nYours very truly,\nDirector, Minic H. Albren\nBureau of Nursing Service.\nMHA\n:BA"
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