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The American newspapers announced the death of
Miss Helen Scott Hay, the American nurse, our teacher and friend,
who died in Savana Ill. on the 25th of November, 1932.
Born in Lanark Ill. in 1869, she graduated from
Northwestern University with the degree of Bachelor of Literature
and Phi Beta Kappa honors. In 1923 the same University conferred
on her the Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. In 1895
she graduated from the Illinois Training School for Nurses. She
taught in rural, graded and High Schools.
In her varied nursing experiences is included
service with the American Red Cross. In 1914 she was appointed
as Director of Nurses on the S.S.Red Cross, carrying the first
American Relief Expedition to the World War; then a.s Chief Nurse
of the Unit in Russia; with Rachel Corrance organized the Queen
Eleonora School for Nurses in Sofia and later did community nur-
sing among the refugees in Philippopolis
In February, 1920 she was appointed Director of
Nursing Service for the American Red Cross in Europe with head-
quanters in Paris.
She received decorations from Russia, Roumania,
Serbia. and Bulgaria and in 1920 was awarded the Florence Nightin-
gale Medal of the International Red Cross, her most valued deco-
ration.
High. standards, broad sympathies and fine leader-
ship are her conspicuous qualities, and an inspiration to those
associated with her.
Miss Hay in Bulgaria.
Realizing that the needs for good Nursing Service
were almost untouched in Bulgaria, Queen Eleonora determined to
establish a school for nurses on the modern basis and in the
year 1914 asked the American Red Cross for the assistance of an
American nurse: insthe Task. In 1915 Miss Hay was sent by the
American Red Cross to Sofia and the Queen El eonora was organized
in the State Hospital in Sofia.
Here Miss Hay laid the foundation of modern nur-
sing in Bulgaria, where eight Bulgarian girls were prepared
to carry on the work. For a year and the half Miss Hay worked
as a public health nurse among the refugees and poor families
of the soldiers in Philippopolis.
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