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fM VE QUARTERiy 4ft*l BULLETIN r** METROPOLITAN NURJEJ j/ Vol. 9, No. 2 May 1945 LEGION OF MERIT AWARD GOES TO DR (COLONEL) LANZA PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT MET-4S2 Dr. Anthony J. Lanza, thorn many of you know, returned to the Company on January lot of thia year, after three years of service with the War Department. Dr. Lanza's work as head of the Division of Occupational Health in the Preven tive Medicine Service of th e Surgeon General's Office was of such value that he has been award ed the prized Legion of Merit! Surgeon General Kirk made the presentation in Washington, D. C. on April 2nd, with the following citations "Colonel Anthony J. Lanza, 0439418, Medical Corps, Army of the United States. For excep tionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services from March 1942 to De cember 1944. Colonel- Lanza contributed in a ' high degree to the development of the Army's present industrial health program for civilian workers in Any owned and operated Indus trial plants. He organized for the Surgeon General a special health service which protects the health of almost a million civilian work ers in Army industrial plants, thus contributing to the uninterrupted flow of muni tions. To this task he brought a rich background of special knowledge and exper ience which was applied with energy. Intelligence and wisdom. Largely due to his ef forts, the present Affective and well organized program or industrial medicine h as been developed and he thus*contributed in a high degree to the success of the Army's program of Preventive Medicine." Since many of you have at some time met and worked with Dr. Lanza, I am sure you will be much interested to learn of the award which he has received as g result of his accomplishing a tremendously Important job. Certainly some of you will again have an opportunity of working with him in the future. He will of course again head the Industrial Health Service and carry <jp much important work in cooperation with the Medical, Group, and Statistical Divisions, at the same time giving the Nursing and other Welfare Buresus.the benefit of his invaluable experience. I need hardly say that we are most happy to welcome Dr.. Lanza home once more. Second Vice-President NURSING BUREAU WELFARE DIVISION . METROPOLITAN LIFE INJURANCE COMPANY V fkt Qntrttrly Bn lift in pagt two SALUTE TO THE STAFF ON THE HOKE FRONT Ruth H. King, Editorial Assistant, Nursing Bureau To many Metropolitan Nurses here at hoae the article in the January number of the Quarterly Bulletin, "A Salute to the Metropolitan Nurses in the Aimed Forces," gave a thrilling sense of sharing, if only indirectly, in the rich and unforgetable experi ences of Metropolitan members or the Ansy and Navy. But - "Peace has its victories no less than ear," so in this number we' salute the Metropolitan Nursing Staff which is meeting the grave challenges of the time on the home front. Metropolitan Nurses who are deep in military life at present want to know what changes the war, as well as time and tide, is making in the work of the Nursing Ser vice. To them and to the Metropolitan staff we want to say, we are in a fight too, here at home, to maintain and improve the health and strength of our oountry by m&in-^m taining and Improving that part of it which is our special province, that of our poli-W cyholders and their families. If it is sometimes hard to realize the importance of this work as compared with that in a field hospital in Belgium, for instance, It is partly because, as yet, we have had no spectacular epidemic to fight. The preserva tion of health is always less dramatic but requires constant vigilance. face a year the Nursing Bureau takes stock of the Metropolitan Nursing Service. This is done In two ways - by ths annual statistics and by the annual narrative re ports. The statistics are the bare bones of the year's experience) ths narrative re ports give them life. The narrative reports come to Miss Haupt's desk early in Janu ary, for the end of the year brings more than Christmas to Metropolitan Bead Nunes and Supervisors! Nor doss a Nursing Bureau position in the Home Office confer immuni ty; every member of that staff prepares an annual report too. Ths Director's report to Dr. Armstrong contains ths final crystalization of the experiences of many indivi dual Nurses and Supervisors, of their reactions and conclusions, and of their activi ties, as members of their communities in this time of war. ^ The annual reports bring Into focus ths problems that are country-wide and other problems that are local. They point to places where growth has halted or where it Is taking soma new direction. Trends of the times become evident, end so do the disloca tions caused by war. Without these reports, an understanding of the Nursing Service in itself and in relation to the whole public health nursing field could hardly be made at all. To quote'from Miss Haupt's report for 1944* "We are in a unique position, through our Local and Territorial Supervisors and our administrative service in the Home and Head Offices, to keep in ac tive touch with the total field of public health nursing, from ths local grass roots, through Stats organizations to the national level, both govern mental and voluntary." \ The reading of one report right after another makes a real Impact upon the rea der. Ths problems of the Field come home with full force. So, too, do the loyalty, flexibility, and stamina of Metropolitan Nurses and Supervisors. ' a/oi f* Qmrftrly Hil*tin < Hft tkrtt The nurse shortage was one of the year's big difficulties. A Local Supervisor re ported) "Our current problems have included limited staff due to resignations and ill ness with long delay in replaceaents - that combined with a heavy maternity case load. In May we averaged U visits per day.......... little time for teaching.......... but we have met all for nursing service promptly." Several Staff Nurses willingly accepted temporary transfer from one State to another for weeks or months at a time to nelp out In sucn situations or for vacation or leave-of-absenee relief. is to the positive side of the nurse shortage) "Members of families are better tble to give care to ill patients at home as a result of courses in home nursing, first -aid, and nutrition. Nurses aides are a definite asset .... Patients are willing to do with less if they believe our soldiers are getting more skilled care." - . There is no silver lining to the fact that "our automobiles are a year older," as one Supervisor cogently observes. Several reports mention the time spent to get tires inspected for recaps or replacements and to have repairs made. The nurse short age and the gasoline shortage even tie in with the average number of visits per day, f on occasion. "Each Nurse has a greater area to cover. That not only means more tra vel time) it means completing papers for supplemental gas rations. It means time out to go to the Ration Board." The case load in general continues to decrease both in the salaried services and with associations. One Local Supervisor summarized the reasons for the decrease in her center thus) "Hospitalization benefits. Red Cross home nursing classes, abundant Jobs; therefore, better economic conditions and a more hopeful, healthy outlook on life." .Another notes, "More people in hospitals and convalescent homes because they cannot get household help. Others mention, "Hospitalization as a result of the short age of doctors." "The decrease in the civilian population duo to military service,* seems to be a factor, as stressed in one center. "Publicity about the nurse shortage"; "curtailment of non-essential care"; "absence of serious epidemics except for polio myelitis"; and "the new weapons against disease" - all thase are factors in the 1944 case load. Many of th e reports speak of the alertness of the Staff Nurse to detect rheumatic fever, tuberculosis, venereal disease, and "previouslyunknown diseases brought to our attention by returning soldiers." Several mention increased attention, on the part of Nurses, to accident hazards in the homes of policyholders. Others men tion the Nurse's awareness of the importance of nutrition "especially in relation to children and to war workers." Others are conscious of a gradual shift in the need for nursing care from the acute field to the chronic. "I had more elderly patients than in rormer years, and since reading several books on problems of the aged, I have been interested in them and for the first time have enjoyed caring for them," a Supervisor quotes from a book review written by a Staff Nurse. Metropolitan Nurses think Increasingly of their total responsibilities in public health nursing - for health guidance as well as for bedside care - a realisation which the war has accelerated. On the other hand many local health departments are taking an interest in providing bedside care in addition to instructive services. So we are not surprised to find ne w evidences of a feeling of solidarity in the public health nursing group in many communities. Local Supervisors report Joint staff meetings of all public health workers in a community. The range of subjects covered by speakers - . J!* Qutritrly Bullitt* W four 0OB* of than of national reputation - in eoae of our larger centers makes one conscious of an upsurge in the desire of public health workers everywhere to be adequate in their responsibilities. The war has shaken many of us out of our sense of isolation aqd self-satisfaction in our Jobs. The observance of Public Health Nursing Say on January 26, initiated by the Na tional Organization for Public Health Nursing, publicised in a Company advertisement, and celebrated in about 1,000 communities in the United States, increased this feeling of solidarity. This is evident in many letters received from our staff, in Indiana Nurse reported that when the Metropolitan, health department, county and school nurses _ got together early in December to discuss possible ways to celebrate the day,they dis covered that they did not know much about each others work. Immediately they began to refer cases and to work together more intelligently* The importance of just that was made clear in Miss Haupt's letter sent to the staff on January 3rd. "A better understanding of public health nursing generally, in each commun ity, is especially important in these war times when there is a scarcity of nurses for the Armed Forces, and when the appropriate use of public health nurses may make it possible to release some private duty, hospital, office and industrial nurses for the military." | Some of our staff started the ball rolling in their centers by telephoning other public health nurses to ask "What shall we do about observing Public Health Nursing Day?" Others accepted difficult assignments and carried them through successfully. In one southern city the Local Supervisor became State Publicity Chairman for the "Day," got the cooperation of the governor, the mayor, the state and local organizations and the newspapers so that the observance of the day got wide and intelligent publicity. Several Metropolitan Nurses took part in radio broadcasts in which they, and the other public health nurses, were interviewed about their work. The experience in the Pacific Coast territory may be considered typical! "Judg ing by the publicity given 'our day', it was a big success. Newspaper pictures and articles, window displays, radio addresses and public meetings were the various means of telling the world what a public health nurse is and what she does." Jean Roberts, Pacifio Coast Nursing Supervisor, gave an effective radio talk about "our day." Metropolitan Nurses are finding many ways to contribute directly or Indirectly to the war effort. In many of the 1944 reports we find items such as these* "Encouraged young applicants to go into the military service"; "The U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps has taken considerable time and is my contribution to the war effort" j (A modest statement Indeed as this Head Nurse's successful work for the Cadet Corps has been highly com mended by the National Nursing Council for War Service.) "Chairman, War Nursing Coun- 'Member, Nursing Committee of Procurement and Assignment Service; "This was tbs staff s fifth blood donation to the A.R.C.;" "Staff members continued to sssist a.t A.R.C. blood donors' center;" "Miss ______ spoke In behalf of Cadet recruitment st the State Teacher's Convention;" "Misscontinued to teach nurses aide classes^ Mich - organised e group or women to sew end knit for the boys at Valley forge Hospital;" "Salary allotment for War Bonds Increased in 1944." All of our nurses ere permitted to participate in the Emergency Maternity Infant Cere program of the Children's Bureau for cere to the wives and infants of service men t 'Tkt Quarterly Built tin 4 p*gt Jivt and are responding whenever called upon by the State health departments. Kan/ also, on their own time, are giving supplementary service to local hospitals and health agencies* More as to war bond purchases in 1944! Of course we know that all that we can do is very little in comparison with the deeds of our Nurses in the armed rorces, but we believe they will be especially pleased to know that with 49 groups of competitors, the Welfare Division won second place in the Home Office war bond competition for the President's Trophy for 19 44. In other words the Home Office members of the Welfare Division invested an average of 15*48 percent of their total earnings In war bonds. In - her report to Dr. Armstrong, Hiss Haupt accounts for our success thuss I think one reason that the Welfare Division has been so successful `in the war bond effort is that we have so many personnel in- the armed forces. Our Home Office staff constantly see the poignant letters we receive from Nurses and others from all parts of the world and I feel sure those contacts stimu lated additional effort on the part of the Home Office staff to try to match that of their coworkers." Id 1944 most of the members of our Field Staff continued to invest in war bonds by salary allotment. For Nurses with hone responsibilities,this takes close figuring. In spite of this fact, many Nurses in the Field sent additional pledges to the Home Office during the fifth and sixth War Loan Drives. So this is the way it is at home in the Hetropolitan Nursing Service. In spite of serious shortages we are making every effort to maintain reasonable standards o f quality of service. We have our transportation troubles and may take to bicycles; Eng lish public health nurses nave always used them. "An increased capacity for coopera tive tmwiring in meeting common problems," as one Supervisor puts it, seen to be characteristic of the whole staff; that, and "increased alertness," mentioned by se veral Supervisors. Some sixty Hetropolitan Salaried Nurses have been released for mi litary duty in the United States end Canada. Those who remain at home are finding ways to contribute to the war efzort in their own communities. To sum it all up, the morale of the starr is excellent. A salute to the Metropolitan Nurses on the home front! TITLE CHANCES FOR WELFARE OFFICERS On February 20, 1945, the Board of Directors announced two changes which pleased everyone in the Welfare Division. We quote from the Home Office Bulletins "Anthohy J. Lansa, M. D., formerly Assistant Nodical Director, to be Asso ciate Medical Director. "George H. Wheatley, M. D., formerly Assistant Medical Director,to be Assis tant Vice-President, Welfare." Among the Canadian appointments recently made by the Board of Directors is that of Homan L. Burnette, D. So.3., the Welfare Division's chief in the Canadian Head Of fice, to Assistant Vice-President (formerly Assistant Secretary). fftc Qumrttrly tut It tin HU *ix" WAR NUBSING SERVICE From January 3rd to 19th, 1945, Uise Haupt was on loan to the National Nursing Council ror War Service as a specific consultant in Washington, D. C. She did the ini tial exploration of the question of drafting nurses and recommended the establishment of a Washington office of the Council. Hiss Haupt conferred with Dr. Dublin (now on loan to the American Had Cross) and with Miss Virginia Dunbar, Director of the Rad Cross Nursing Service, about the organ izing of a "coordinating committee" of the various agencies concerned with the re cruitment of nurses for the armed forces. In addition, she recommended a work simpli fication study of all application procedures for which Ur. H. A. Finley of the Metro politan was borrowed. Metropolitan. Nurses are urged to watch the press and the professional magazines for information about the draft of nurses. A WARNING MOTE The habit of using mineral oil may have such serious nutritional consequences that it seems desirable to have an authoritative statement regarding its use from the merlins! profession. The following article by Dr. Norman Jolllffe, well-known to all who are Interested In nutrition, points out the dangers inherent in the continuous use of this product. Dr. Jolllffe is Associate Professor of Medicine, Mew Iork University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in Public Health Practice, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Misusing Mineral Oil* by Norman Jolllffe, M. D. Mineral oil is one of the mat commonly used laxatives, although warnings have been given frequently about the harmful effect that it has on the utilisation of caro tene, the pro-vitamin A, a very important nutritional factor. . Most, if not all, of the carotene in green and yellow vegetables and fruits, which the body normally con verts into vitamin A, may be absorbed by the mineral oil and eliminated unused with the oil. Since most people get a large part of their vitamin A requirement in the fora of carotene, users of mineral oil may therefore be deprived of the many benefits of vitamin.. When mineral oil is used over a long period of time, real harm may result. This absorption of the vitamins by the mineral oil may take place even whsi the vegetables or fruit are eaten at dinner and tha mineral oil taken at bedtime. Recent experiments show that mineral oil interferes also with the utilisation of other essential food factors, especially vitamin D and the minerals calcium and phos phorus, which are necessary for building good bone and tooth structure, and vitamin I which helps to assure proper coagulation of the blood, especially after childbirth. Since these are factors that are very Important in the diet during pregnancy to insure health protection for the mother and the best growth of the coming baby, it seems In appropriate that mineral oil should bs used so commonly by pregnant women. Tkt Quarterly gwlUtin p*t* * In reducing diets, where calories oust be kept low, mineral oil Is sometimes sug gested as an ingredient for salad dressing or mayonnaise since the mineral oil prorides no food ralue, whereas salad oil dressings add considerably to the calorie con tent of the diet* A mineral oil dressing, however, deprives the body of the carotene of the various kinds of vegetables whirb are used in salads. The wartime shortage of oil, lard and other fats has led some food manufacturers to use mineral oil in salad dressings and 'for frying salted nuts, potato chips, and doughnuts for sale to consumers. Such practices may have serious nutritional eonse-quences, and housswlves should read the labels on the containers of such products to assure themselres that mineral oil has not been used. - Because mineral oil is so widslj used, it seems apparent that many people bare not realised these harmful effecte it may have. The harm may far outweigh ite advan tages. Certainly it should never be taken except on the specific recommendation of a physician. * Reprinted by permission of 'Nutrition Notes," December 1944, The Nutrition Bureau, Community Service Society, New lork. TERRITORIAL STANDINGS. NURSING BUREAU SITE DRIVING CONTEST Standing First Second Third Fourth fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Chargeable Accidents Metropolitan Central Southeastern Atlantic Coast Midwestern Southwestern New Zhgland Eastern Pacifie Coast South Central Canada Great Lake Penn State Total 0 1 4 3 3 2 2 7 9 8 8 7 4 Number of Authorised Automobiles as Accidanta ofL12/31/44 Per Hundred C 11 .00 24 4.17 60 6.67 38 7.89 24 12.50 15 13.33 13 lf.38 36 19.44 44 10.45 37 21.62 33 24.24 28 25.0 -21 21tSi 394 Average 15*73 Dr. Armstrong is writing to each member of the Metropolitan and Central Territo ries congratulating them upon their ourstending record during the year. It is gratify ing to note the Interest wnich our entire staff is taking in the setter of safe driv ing. We urge your contined cooperation ip this matter particularly at this time when older cars on the highway increase the problems confronting the driver. The Quarterly Bulletin page etfit FORMULA TO DETEEimiB SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS BggCT^i. /muftiz. 1, J3AS The length of the leave-of-absence has heretofore determined the amount of money granted fora Metropolitan scholarship for postgraduate study in public health miraing. Mow we hare devised a new basis! The amount or an individual scholarship is variable, as based on the following formula* 1. The amount of the scholarship award shall include the follow ing expenses in the college the recipient attends* Cost of tuition ($10 for books for semester or quarter Cost of special fees and ( 5 for books for rummer school * Two thirds of cost of room and board If travel expenses to and from the college exceed $50, two thirds or the amount ova r $50 up to a --nnii 0f I50 is made up to the Nurse. B. The amount is limited as follows* 1 summer session to $200. k quarter to $400. k full semeater to $500. The formula In *A* above is to be applied in each scholarship award. The te-Himie figure will operate only if the roxmula exceeds the maximums as herein established. LEAVES Of ABSENCE FOR STPDI **Bary Boat Gastonia, M. C. Dorothy loung Lents Territorial Supervisor *Bess KaeCulloch Cumberland, lid* Ora B. Moss Mobile, Ala. * Awarded Metropolitan Scholarship *# Awarded Federal Scholarship University of North Carolina Teachers College, Columbia Teachers College, Columbia George Peabody College The Quarterly Bulletin Nf *tx* DISASTER BELIEF i folder in the Nursing Bureau flies marked Disasters contains letters and news paper clippings from Metropolitan Nurses about floods, fires,explosions, train wrecks, tornadoes, and hurricanes* Some of the entries make grim reading. They all make us realize how quick our Nurses are to answer the call for help when disaster strikes. Here is the 1914 honor roll for disaster relief in the Eastern Office Territories. Month Purging Cinty Metropolitan May, June Two floods Ottumwa, Iowa Anna B. White July Tornado Charleroi, Pa. Julia Taros July Mine explosion Ballalre, Ohio .Lula McMahon ugust Explosion, Octane Gas Plant Oil City, Pa. Philoaesa Prince October Hurricane Miami, Fla. Willena Gatewood Bernice Knowlton October Mine Fire Bellaira, Ohio Lula McMahon Spring floods have come early this year} there may be more. *e received a vivid letter rrom Mrs. Helen Glockner, appointed to the Portsmouth, Ohio Metropolitan Nurs ing Service in February, about the recent battle of Portsmouth against the Ohio River. A Metropolitan Nurse sometimes asks what the Nursing Bureau would consider her first responsibility should a local disaster occur* Of course the answer depends upon the seriousness of the emergency. We count upon Metropolitan Nurses to keep their heads and to use their best judgment. In general we advises 1. Report by telephone or in person to the local Red Cross Chapter in the area where the disaster has occurred. At the point of disaster report at the Red Cross headquarters designated by the Bed Cross flag. 2. Do not taka part in disaster work until you have reported to the Red Cross person la charge or to whatever agency is temporarily in charge. Upon leaving, report again to the Bed Cross or other agency in charge. 3. Decide in your own mind whether the emergency or your case load should take precedence and act accordingly. This will depend upon the extent and seriousness of the disaster and the need for your help, as against the need or your patients ror your care. 4. Send an account of what you did to the Home Office and tell us approx imately the number of hours you spent in disaster work* We know that we can depend upon the Metropolitan Staff to respond to calls f o r service. 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P?% AMCOAQJACTNWCAUAPOVCTUPN IN THIS 11* A WAPTtMt tpujmpm r NTMACCaNAO* T ATTACK - A NAMTIUC revt*,AMtAtLU* SCAALCT fAgQPiNC coucn, ojpntncaia 4*t*4 IN l#4t - A M% OCCUNC * 4 4 A MINIMUM KfttMATi lb* "Public Health Is Purchaseable" tabulation above ia an up-to-date presenta tion of practically the ehola atory or tha welfare work of tha Company, measured in demonstrated tana of outstanding accomplishment In which tha Nursing Service has par ticipated all along tha .lias* This Company picture of tha conquest of disease epito mizes tha Nation's great progress ia this field. RHE01UTIC FETES "An Saglish writer says of rheumatic fewer, 'It licks tha joints but bites the heart*' This striking characterization of tha first causa of death* among children in tne early teens may be put to good use by John Hancock Nurses." Te read that in the January 1, 1945 number of The Field Nurses' Bulletin of the John Hancock Ifutual Life Insurance Company's Visiting Nurse Service* We think it is so vivid that we are pass ing it on to Metropolitan Nurses. Thanks, John Hancock* * From disease \ Tkt Quarttrly Bulletin P*t* *ltv*n JOINED UP1 Elizabeth A. Boyd Malden, Mass. Rebecca A. Comings Harvey, 111. Mazy A. Doyle Oak Park, 111. March 27, 1945 February 15, 1945 February 21, 1945 2nd Lt., Army Nurse Corps Camp Dsvane, Mass. 2nd Lt., Army Nurse Corpe Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wis. 2nd Lt., Army Nurse Corpe Regional Hospital Fort Knox, Ky. Willena Gatewood Miami, Fla. March 1, 1945 2nd Lt., Army Nurse Corps Fourth Service Command Camp Rucker, Ala. Anna B. Millard* Towson, Md. Eugenia M. Murphy North Adams, Mass. "Nursing Offlet Clsrk February 14, 1945 January 3, 1945 Private, WAC Co. 2 - 20th Regt., Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Shsign, Navy Nurse Corps U. S. Naval Hospital Chelsea, Mass. CITATION "Captain Manila i. Twiford, N-725365, Army Mursa Corps, United States Army. For meritorious serrice in connection with Military operations against an enemy of the United States froa 24 June 1944 to 21 December 1944* During combat operations in France, Captain Twlford, serving as Principal Chief Nurse, 35th Evacuation Hospital, rendered distinguished service in her outstanding perforaanoe of duty. This officer organized and instituted the nursing service of the hospital,and under her skillful supervision, the highest professional medical standards were achieved and maintained. The unremitting efforts and loyal devotion to duty of Captain Twiford reflect great credit upon herself and the Military Forces of the United States." We salute Capt. Twiford for all that her citation indicates and express for all the Metropolitan family our pride in ner achievements. WELCOME HOME Lt. Katharyn Ports (Metropolitan Nurse, Oak Park, HI.) retinned to the U.S.A. in March by way of Charleston, S. C. where she was a patient at Stark General Hospital before transfer to Winter General Hospital, Topeka, Can. After a three weeks' furlough to visit her really, Lt. Ports will return to Winter Hospital fo r treatment and for what we hops will be her speedy and complete recovery.. Her many friends in the Metropolitan welcome her home after 28 months of meri torious service in the Army Nurse Corps in North Africa and Italy. Margaret Metzger, our Nurse in Topeka, Nan., did the honors for all of us.by visiting Miss Ports at the hospital. FTFiji thtp Miss Haupt's field trip In February with Marjorie Adams, Territorial Super visor, gave her an opportunity to observe nursing on both the civilian and the mill- fk Quart*rly gnllttin paft tw<lv tajj fronts. The fins work of Metropolitan Nurses, Novella Dantzler and Dorothy Vogel, in Charleston, and Augusta Simril and Dorothy Carroll, in Jacksonville, 71a., gave first hand tsstiaony of shat our service aeans to war communities, which include so many industrial oar workers and the zaailies of service men as well as normal local residents. Contact with the military was made through a visit to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville with Lt. (JO) Joan Collette (Hammond, Ind.) and Ensign Esther Doming (Plainfield, Conn.), Metropolitan Hur|##jon military leave. In Charleston, Miss Haupt leaned through the local newspaper that Capt. Ruth B. Anderson (Nashville, Tenn.) had just arrived on the Chateau Thierry Hospital Ship, of which she is Chief Nurse. Her description of eight crossings to England is so revealing or what nursing in this war means that we hope she will soon share some of her experiences with the readers of the Quarterly Bulletin. ANNIVERSARIES AND MEDALS SO Tears Service Estelle ntsgerald. Hyattsville, Md. Hersie Greer ... .Athens, Ga. Mary HazTlgan ... Home Office Ethel Jones ..... .Atlanta, Ga. Nora M. McCrory . . . .Pompton Lakes, N.J. Helen Tare ...... Los Angeles, Calif. IS ItMt Profit Thelma Borua . . .Portsmouth, Ya. Simoono Diimontler Quebec City, Qno. Dorm Lemmar .... Appleton, Vis. Mary Lineberger ... .Burlington, N. C. Ora B. Moos ..... .Mobile, Ala. Charlotte Yon Brieson .Toweon, Md. 19 IWP STYlCt Grace Constable . . Loe Angeles, Calif. Buby De Yriese . . . . Vt. Clemens, Mich. Marie C. Price 8 1/0 (I)*, NAVES 3.inyf ,a**Tio* Myrtle Coltharp . Salt lake City, Utah Grace Prinoe . . . . Salt Lake City,. Utah Betty Roy Johnston .Tanksgen. 111. M. Evelyn Turner . . . Atlanta, Ga. Lt. Pegeen Nugent Any Nurse Corps Sara C. Warner . . . Hudson County, N. J. Nursing Offieo Clark moms w'ujj. ( a V