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    "ocrText": "M\nahan\na\n5\nn\ne\nAttachment No. 1\nRed Cross Service - Mrs. Anne F. Mahoney\nD\nMrs. Mahoney came to the Richmond, Virginia Chapter in 1937 as a Staff Home\nNursing Instructor. Because of the high quality of her work, she was made Director\n5\nof Nursing Services of the Chapter in 1940. She has served in this capacity ever\nsince and is recognized throughout the community, the state, and the nation because\n5\nof the very outstanding job she has done.\ne\nDuring World War II Mrs. Mahoney was on loan to the Eastern Area of the\nAmerican Red Cross to assist with recruiting of nurses for the Army Nurse Corps.\nF\nAs one who has worked very closely with her for the past 1812 years, and as\nher supervisor for the past 16 years, I find it very difficult to find words that\nwill adequately describe the kind of person and the kind of Red Cross representa-\ntive that Anne Mahoney is. She is the most outstanding service director with whom\nI have been privileged to work. While she is a very professional person in every\nsense of the word, she is a very tender-hearted and compassionate individual. Her\nown personal and professional standards are high, and she expects the same from\nother staff and volunteers with whom she is associated.\nAs I have watched Mrs. Mahoney work over the years, as the Chapter Director\nof Nursing Services (Programs), I have been particularly pleased with the way she\nworks with volunteers. She carefully recruits and selects her volunteers, trains\nthem well, and gives them excellent supervision and support. This statement holds\ntrue not only for instructors in the various nursing fields, but also to committee\nchairmen and members. Hers are always working committees!\nMrs. Mahoney is a tireless worker. She works hard at any task assigned her\nor of her own choosing. Not only does she do a lot of good, hard work, but the\nquality of her work is excellent. She plans and organizes her job well and always\nhas constructive suggestions for the total Red Cross operation in the Chapter. In\naddition to her work in the Richmond Chapter, she has for many years assisted other\nneighboring chapters in the organization of their Nursing Services and trained their\ninstructors - long before the CST concept. She really pioneered in a great many\nprograms and services \"reaching out\" into the community. She didn't need to wait\nfor the current, special effort to extend the Red Cross nursing programs into the\ntotal community. She was already there! In addition, she has been very instru-\nmental in bringing back into the profession a great many inactive nurses.\nBecause of her many qualifications, Mrs. Mahoney was appointed to the Board\nof\nVisitors of the Medical College of Virginia by Governor J. Lindsay Almond in\nJune 1961 and was reappointed by Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1965. She is\nonly the second woman to have served in this capacity.\nTo a very large degree, the high esteem in which the Richmond Chapter of the\nAmerican Red Cross, and particularly its Nursing Programs and Services are held,\nare due to Mrs. Anne F. Mahoney. She is a credit not only to the Richmond Chapter,\nbut to the entire American National Red Cross. We are proud to recommend her for\nthe Ann Magnussen Award.\nDonald B. Bishoff\nExecutive Director\nRichmond, Virginia Chapter"
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