/ ¥. e NATIONAL OFFICERS Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Charles Evans Hughes, Vice President Herbert Hoover, Vice President Stanley Reed, Counselor Wayne C. Taylor, Treasurer Mabel T. Boardman, Secretary NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Cary T. Grayson, Chairman James L. Fieser, Vice Chairman James K. McClintock, Vice Chairman Ernest J. Swift, Vice Chairman CENTRAL COMMITTEE Cary T. Grayson, Chairman Mrs. August Belmont Mabel T. Boardman Mrs. Henry P. Davison William Fortune George L. Harrison Samuel Knight R. Walton Moore Gustavus D. Pope Mrs. Henry R. Rea Stanley Reed Maj. Gen. Charles R. Reynolds Rear Admiral P. S. Rossiter George E. Scott Henry Upson Sims Wayne C. Taylor Eliot Wadsworth Lloyd B. Wilson TRUSTEES ENDOWMENT FUND Henry Morgentheu, Jr., Chairman Henry P. Davison Howerd W. Fenton William D. Hoover William A. Julian Harry G. Meem James H. Perkins Wayne C. Taylor Corcoran Thom \\__ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. \ ‘ THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. Z Ass _ MIDWESTERN BRANCH OFFICE = ST. LOUIS, MISS OURI MAY 2~5, 1938 ) February 25, 1938. - Forrest C. Allen, Director of Physical Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. My dear Mr. Allen: I have your letter of February 4 which was sent to our — National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Red Cross activities in Kansas and in the Midwestern Area come under the jurisdiction of the Branch Office here in St. Louis and for that reason your letter was forwarded to us for handling. Under separate cover we sent you material describing our First Aid program, a catalog, and also a poster showing arti- ficial respiration. You will notice from this descriptive material our First Aid program is an educational activity administered through local Red Cross chapters by qualified and authorized instructors. The American Red Cross believes First Aid training for laymen should include the full courses of instruction provided in our Junior, Standard, and Advanced Courses. These courses are based on material appearing in the American Red Cross First Aid Textbook. Instruction is made uniform through the training and authorization of instructors who are supplied with outlines and examination records for the various courses. Medical doctors can be issued current instructor's certificates without training and authorization for these phys— icians is available on request through local American Red Cross chapters. It is only necessary we have information about the doctor's name, his school, and date of graduation. Files are completed from information we are able to locate in the medical directory. Instructors, other than physicians, must complete the Special First Aid Course. This practice teaching course is designed to provide training for First Aid instructors and is conducted only by physicians, usually members of our national steff. American Red Cross First Aid certificates are issued by this office on the recommendation of authorized instructors on receipt of the usual examination record through their local chap- ters.