Brooklyn Standard Union
24 April 1931

Volunteer Service Work Extended by Boro Chapter
    Completing a training course of two and one half months at
Brooklyn Naval Hospital, thirty "Gray Ladies," volunteer Red Cross
hospital workers, have received their assignment to regular duties
from Miss Mabel DURIVAGE, field director at the hospital following
the receipt of certificates at the graduation exercises yesterday.
    
  Mrs. Whitney MERRILL, director of volunteer service for the
Brooklyn Chapter, presided at the exercises and presented Captain
P.S. ROSSITER, commanding officer at he hospital, and Miss Mabel
BOARDMAN, chairman of the volunteer service of the national
organization.

    Pins and certificates were presented by Mrs. William DENNY
SARGENT, secretary of the Brooklyn Chapter.

                PRACTICAL TESTIMONY
    According to Miss BOARDMAN, the Gray Ladies are an outgrowth of
the war, which found the Red Cross with many volunteers, but few who
were equipped with actual hospital experience.  Following the war
the volunteer service decided that it would be desirable to develop
a group of women with practical training in hospitals for war
service and for disaster relief.
    At the present time, Miss BOARDMAN said, the Red Cross is
extending the Gray Ladies service to civil hospitals in addition to
the service hospitals, in order to increase the number of volunteers
with training.

                SPECIAL AWARDS
    An honorary certificate was presented Mrs. H.C. RIGGSA in
recognition of service at the Naval Hospital since 1919, and Millard
MORGAN received a volunteer service pin in recognition of his work
as a full time volunteer giving four days a week in taking care of
the banking for the patients at the hospital.

    Receiving the Gray Ladies certificates were:
Mrs. Alfred T. BENNETT
Miss Constance BOODY
Mrs. R.G. BOOKE
Mrs. T.J. BREITWEISER
Mrs. J. Halstead BROWN
Mrs. J. Russell CLARKE
Mrs. Jeremiah CLARKE
Mrs. Hatthew (typed as written) CUMNER
Miss Frances DUDLEY
Mrs. Helen FAUSSER
Mrs. Gertrude GRANT
Mrs. James H. GRIFFIN
Miss Caroline KINSEY
Mrs. J. Warren LONEY
Mrs. M.S. MARKLEY
Mrs. John MARSH
Mrs. Herbert C. MILLER
Mrs. Wesley MOORE
Mrs. Josephine MORGAN
Mrs. V.A. NODEN
Mrs. P.F. O'REILLY
Mrs. Richard PASTERNACK
Mrs. Charles H. PULIS
Mrs. Charles E. RYND
Mrs. Verna SAWTELLE
Mrs. Samuel EARLE TAYLOR
Mrs. T. TOMLINSON
Mrs. R.H. WERNER

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