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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1945)
17 Employees Volunteer for Hospital Work By BETTY DOTSON A total of over 5,000 volunteer the Salem General, The Deaconess, and hours of hospital work have been given the State Tuberculosis hospitals, at the by 43 women, state employees in: Sa Marion County Health Department lem. These women have been trained clinics and at the Salem Blood Bank. as Volunteer Nurses’ Aides by the Mar ion County Red Cross Chapter. Of COURAGE these Aides, 2,3. are at present on active duty several hours every week at one I do not heed to pray, dear Lord, of the local hospitals. Three others have For courage, when the sun, entered the Army Nurses’ Aide Corps, Has tipped with rose the hills four joined the WAVES, two entered For work is .just begun, nurses’ training, and two have trans And I have youth, and I have strength ferred to duty in California. Of those And life with purpose thrills. trained only three have dropped out before the required 150 hours were do I do not need to pray dear Lord, | nated. In the latest class, which will be Fbr courage, when the day/ H capped about April first there are six Has reached the noon time hour, stateemployees,, bringing the total For friends along the way number trained- to 49. The number of Have given love, and brought me strength State employees working in'hospitals in other parts of the state is not available. And filled my life with power. at this writing. But now I need to pray, dear Lord, • Mrs. Maxine Rasmussen of the Public For Courage, for the night Utilities Commission has earned the dis Has dimnied the s'un-lit way, tinction of receiving an award for 500 And,faded from my sight Arethose I loved and held most dear, volunteer hours of hospital work. ’Tis now I need* to pray. All women employees are - urged to By Jessie C. Singleton investigate the need for Aides in their (A State Employee) local hospitals. Any woman with the time and physical capacity for this im portant work will le^rn the deep satis Who are you? Where did you come faction-of serving others and will gain from? Where are you going? What are experience of lasting vlaue to her. you doing here? Success and happiness Jack Mayes of the State Civilian De are, dependent upon correct answers to fense Office recently I notified Mrs. these questions. Getting right on them Louise Arneson, director of the Marion acts like a compass to a mariner. There’s County. Nurse’s Aide Corps, that this a definite port, and there’s a way of corps is rated first on the Pacific Coast reaching it. ' — Ad Vantage and third in the nation. This standing is based on the number of Aides grain ed, the number actively retained on He who is false to the present duty duty and the total hours given. Since breaks a thread in the loom, and you December 1943 the 132-.active Aides will see the effect when the weaving of have -given 34,150 volunteer hours at a .life-time is unraveled.—L. Channing
