RED CROSS WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 4

RED CROSS WORKERS

AMERICAN WOMEN ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA. INTERESTING CAREERS. Four American women, led by Miss Helen Hall, of New York City, and all specially trained in social welfare, arrived recently in Australia to commence a new phase of Red Cross work with the U.S. forces. ’They will take charge of Service club personnel and will establish new American Red Cross centres and extend those already existing. All have had interesting careers. Miss Hall is administrative assistant to the delegate in charge of American Red Cross Service Clubs and leave areas in Australia. She is on leave from the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, of which she has been director for the past nine years. She has had considerable experience in army welfare work. During the last war she was with a unit of the American Red Cross in France, where she ■was director of a hospital hut. Later she established Service clubs for . enlisted men. in China and the Philippines, and afterwards. made a close study of social conditions in Cuba. Mrs Anita Woodworth accompanied her husband to France in 1925 to inaugurate there first aid and _ life.saving activities for the Red Cross, and- was in France for 14 years. Her husband is an officer in the U.S. Air Corps in England. Miss Florice Langley, who comes friom Alabama, was State director of the Public Activities programme for the Works Project Administration. . Miss Hannah More Frazer’s home is in Texas. She has been a field representative with the Red Cross for a number of years.