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AMERICAN RED CROSS

MIDWESTERN AREA
1709 WASHINGTON AVENUE

ST. LOUIS 3, MISSOURI
February 14, 1944

Me-SAF 702 CHS 7

TO Council Chairmen, Camp and Hospital Committee Chairmen
FROM Director, Camp and Hospital Councils

SUBJECT Camp and Hospital Council Service and the War Fund

Within the last year you have been chairman of a successful new Service
of Red Cross. Through your work in the Camp and Hospital Council Service, you
have a broad picture of the Red Cross and are acquainted with its operation on
military establishments, in hospitals, and in chapters and the community. Because
of your contacts with various Red Cross services in the council program, you Can
present an interesting story of Red Cross in a general way, as well as an inter-
pretation of your own service. It will be most nelpful and a real support to the
War Fund campaign, which takes place during the month of March, if you would offer
your services to the War Fund Chairman in your chapter to assist in whatever way
he advises.

It is also hoped that you will take every opportunity to present the
War Fund needs at your Camp and Hospital Committee and Council meetings within
the months of February and March. Our program lends itself particularly well to
the presentation of Red Cross War Fund needs because representatives from various
civic organizations attend committee meetings and council mectings, often bringing
guests from many civic groups. Our councils and committees have been active ©
rendering services and supplying needs in response to requests from the commanding
officers of adjacent camps and hospitals. We ere in a position to give real
stimulus to the program of raising the funds so badly needed for the successful
oneration of all Red Cross services, both at home and overseas.

I am enclosing "Facts," a booklet on services which you may find helpful
in presenting the Red Cross program or answering questions.

 

(Mrs.) Florence Leland Ingham, Director
Camp and Hospital Council Service
Midwestern Area

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