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    "ocrText": "12-17-32\nS\nC\n0\nDATA REGARDING MISS HELEN SCOTT HAY\n+\n+\nGraduate of the Northwestern Academy, 1889; B. L. of Northwestern University,\n1893; three terms at University of Chicago, 1900; graduate of the Illinois\nTraining School for Nurses, Chicago, 1895; Head Nurse Iowa State Hospital\nfor the Insane, 1895-1896; chief nurse of private sanatorium, Los Angeles,\nCalif; private duty nursing Los Angeles; principal of High School, Savanna,\nIll. 1901-1902; private duty nursing, Chicago, 1902-1904; Superintendent of\nNurses County Institutions, Dunning, Ill. 1904; private duty nursing,\nPasadena, Calif. 1906; Superintendent of Pasadena Hospital, 1906-1911;\nSuperintendent of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, 1911-1914; went\noverseas in charge of the Red Cross nurses on the Red Cross Ship, September\n1914; Chief Nurse of Unit \"C\", Kief, Russia, 1914.\nBefore the declaration of war, preparations had been made for the establish-\nment of a training school for nurses, conducted under the American Standards\nin Bulgaria, under the patronage of Queen Eleanora. Miss Hay had been re-\nquested to undertake the organization of this school. The war necessitated\nthe postponement of these plans and Miss Hay went from Russia to Bulgaria,\nwhere she was engaged in Public Health nursing and Relief work at Philippopolis;\nreturned to the United States in May 1917 to receive appointment as Director\nof Bureau of Instruction, Department of Nursing, National Headquarters,\nAmerican Red Cross. Released by the Red Cross in June 1918 to help organize\nthe Army School of Nursing of the Surgeon General's office, War Department.\nAppointed October 1918 as Chief Nurse of the Red Cross Commission to the Balkan\nstates; appointed Chief Nurse of the Red Cross Commission to Europe in May\n1919. Released May 1922.\nDecorated by the Russian Government with the Gold Cross of St. Anne; by the\nQueen of Bulgaria with the Bulgarian Royal Red Cross in recognition of\n\"splendid service done in the fulfillment of her profession\".\nReceived the Florence Nightingale Medal, International Red Cross Commission,\nGeneva, Switzerland.\nMiss Helen Scott Hay was born in 1869 at Lanark, Illinois and died November 25,\n1932, after an illness of seven years, at her home in Savanna, Illinois.\n20F."
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