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May 26, 1937
Mrs. Laura Knowlton Turner
Vassalboro
Maine
My dear Mrs. Turner:
As you know, it has been our plan, for sometime,
to designate certain members of the Maine State and Local Committee
on Red Cross Nursing Service as special representatives or "key
nurses" in the particular area in which they happen to be living,
so as to better serve the Chapters in their respective localities
in event of disaster or other emergency requiring the services of
Red Gross nurses. You were appointed a member of our Maine State
and Local Committee in January 1930 and upon their recommendation
we are hereby officially authorizing you to serve as the Committee's
key nurse in Kennebec County.
The Red Cross Chapters in Kennebec County will be
advised of your appointment and in event of a disaster or emergency,
or other Chapter activity in connection with which the services
of Red Cross nurses may be needed, the Chapter will contact you
as the local representative and you will be expected to secure
the nurses - the number required for the service - immediately
advising Miss Gertrude E. Beal, Central Maine General Hospital,
Lewiston, Maine, the Secretary of the Committee, of the action
taken.
We are asking Miss Beal to see that a list of the
Red Cross nurses enrolled with the Committee, who according to
their records are living in Kennebec County is sent you and
from this list you should choose as far as possible the nurses
needed for any Red Cross service. If, however, in event of a
disaster you should be unable to secure the necessary number of
enrolled Red Cross nurses, you may always call into service
graduate nurses who are not enrolled but willing to serve, because
after all the important thing is to promptly secure a sufficient
number of nurses to take care of the work at hand. In this connec-
tion, however, we know we may depend upon you to always call upon
nurses suited to the type of service for which they are needed.
with
We hope that it will be possible for you to attend
at least one meeting of the State and Local Committee during the
year and undoubtedly the Secretary will notify you when meetings
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are being held. The Committee will, of course, also look to you
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