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The American Junior Red Cross was founded in 1917. President Woodrow Wilson announced the opening in a formal proclamation. [1] [2] Henry Noble MacCracken formulated the plan in consultation with other educators. [3] The idea was to allow and encourage juniors to assist their country through the American Red Cross.
In October 1918 MacKinnon was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross Society. [5] MacKinnon and Lady Edeline Strickland and the Junior Red Cross at Government House in Sydney in about 1918. She gave her support to self trained nurse Elizabeth Kenny [1] who was caring for polio patients in Queensland using ...
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
In 1919, the Red Cross put together a traveling exhibition of images of the health posters that the Red Cross had made from Upjohn's paintings and began circulating newly made posters that publicized the newly formed Junior Red Cross and encouraged children to join up. One of these posters, "Enrolling for Service" is shown above, Image No. 10.
The Red Cross Youth is one of the six major services of the Philippine Red Cross.Its mission is to educate and empower the children and youth in the spirit of Red Cross through constructive training and effective leadership, and provide opportunities for directing and harnessing their energy and idealism into worthwhile humanitarian activities.
American cyclocross is alive and well—and the next generation of racers is proving it in Europe. This weekend, Bear National Team Racing’s Vida Lopez de San Roman took the win in the junior ...
Irwin, Julia F. "Teaching 'Americanism with a World Perspective': The Junior Red Cross in the U.S. Schools from 1917 to the 1920s." History of Education Quarterly;; 53#3 (2013), pp. 255–279. online; Irwin, Julia F. "Nation Building and Rebuilding: The American Red Cross in Italy during the Great War."
Its walls are lined with red lockers below student art. In 2001, the district proposed a plan to build a new Bloom on Atherton High's campus because the school was overcrowded and needed renovations.