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Garrett Initiates Red Cross DriveVassar’s Rtd Cross Drive, irioiv important than over this year, will begin on November 11 and con-linue until Novembei 18. The drive is a membership drive, completewith certificates and badgesKatherine Garrett who has been an active member of the Red Cross Ambulance Corps will be here next Mondav. November 10. Miss Gar-Vlett was in France under Miss Anne Morgan during the evacuation and is now in charge of the Baltimore chapter. Susan PineolTs ’43, Chairman of the Red Cross Drive will have a tea for Miss Garrett Monday afternoon.Huge Budget IncreaseIn order to continue the vital function it has been forced to undertake for the army in addition to its regular duties, the Red Cross has increased its budget by seven million dollars. This has caused the amount expended from Poughkeepsie to climb from last years ten thousand dollars to twenty-four thousand. Vassar s obligation too has risen.What the social worker does in an ordinary community, the Red Cross does for the army If a man wants leave from the army for some personal reason, such as the death of his father, he tills out a questionnaire for the Red Cross and his cast* is taken over by a trained worker. He gets his leave, but the process usually takes aboutthree da vs of the trained worker's*time.Miss Pineoffs hopes that everyone in college will give a dollar, which “really isn’t so much considering the number of organizations that say. ‘Please give us asmuch as you can\,f
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Poughkeepsie Miscellany News
Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Sat, Nov 08, 1941
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