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Extract from the January 1933 American Journal of Nursing
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DEATH
Helen Scott Hay (class of 1895, Illinois Training School, Chicago)
on endured. Miss Hay was graduated from Northwestern University in Later with in the
November 25, at Savanna, Illinois, after a long illness heroically 1893
B. she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the
Litt. degree and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
known same held in more affectionate esteem. She gave notable service school in a of
life university. Few nurses of her generation, a notable one, were so widely number
of hospital or positions, including six years as director of her own of
Some of the other positions held were Superintendent Nurses,
nursing. Institutions for the In ane and Indigent of Cook County, Illinois,
California. She also organized the West Suburban Hospital and for
County and Superintendent of Hompital and School, Pasadena Hospital, Pasadena, School
Nurses in Oak Park, Illinois.
for which was, she received from the International Committee of the Red Cross, of
It however, for her brilliant war work that Miss Hay was best known
at Geneva, Red Cross Nursing Service cites many references to her service.
and the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1922. The official history Miss
Hay was declared in 1914. She sailed for Eurpoe in charge of nurses October on
the had already been selected to organize a school of nursin in Bulgaria the when
1914-1915. In 1915 Miss Hay organized the school of nursing in Bulgaria 1917 she
war "S.S. Red Cross" in 1914 and was Senior Supervising Nurse, Russia,
returned to Washington as Director of the Bureau of Instruction in 1918
at Sophia, as well as public health work among the refugees. In
Lementary
and Home Care of the Sick of the American Red Cross. From to
Hygiene 1920, she was Chief Nurse for the Balkans, at which time she was
January Director of Nursing Service for the American Red Cross in Europe
appointed appointment which lasted until the termination of her active professional
life an in 1932. The fortitude with which Miss Hay faced the painful physical
disabilities of her later years was equaled only by the courage sertices and acumen
under she pioneer or emergency conditions. She was of those of whom following
displayed in her many opportunities for developing nursing
generations will say, "There were giants in those days."
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