Service Without Pay By Red Cross - The staff at Middletown Hospital is swelled by 41 workers who draw no pay. The local chapter of the Red Cross supplies the hospital with 24 Gray Ladies and 17 Nurse Aides. These women volunteers, supplement the activities of the professional nursing staff. "We would be sorely pressed without them," William Bohman, hospital administrator points out. "They are filling a very important and vital need here. Their training and background is just what we need for the service we provide in the hospital." The Gray Ladies have been with the hospital since April 1951. Mrs. R.B. Hughes is director of the group while Mrs. Frank Sample is in charge of all Gray Lady Units of Middletown Chapter. Local Gray Ladies work at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dayton as well as Middletown Hospital...

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