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Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

 - Class of 1928

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In recognition of her long efforts to introduce the Geneva Red Cross Treaty into this country, Clara Barton was appointed the first President cf the Society. She was determined to make the Rod Cross a living organization of personal nercy and to accomplish this work she worked during the rest of her life. The first national calamity t which Clara Barton directed her new born Red Crocs was the forest fire in Michigan in 1881. i’his calamity really benefitted the society because it offered a field for experiment and demonstrated the practical value cf its work. At this time half the state ci Michigan was devastated, forests and houses were burned and thousands cf people were left homeless. Nothing but charred stumps remained of the vaste forests which had extended over half the state. At Miss Barton13 home in Dansville, the white banner and red cross were flung to the breeze and the call for aid wa3 sent out. Soon people began to send in supplies; these were packed in bcxex in Mias Barton's home and distributed to the people who needed them. Rochester and New York were the first cities to form local branches of the Red Cress but Syracuse rapidly followed. As days went on, material and money was raised and distributed, amounting to $80,000. This first tryout of the Red Cross was very successful and proved to the people what it could do at such a time. The second disaster in which the Red Cross took part wa3 the Mississippi Flood in the early spring cf 1882. Here millions cf acres of cotton and sugar plantations and thousands of hemesw were covered with water. Money and supplies were immediately sent from the northern branches of the organization, as none had yet been formed in the south. Soon after that a local branch was formed at New Orleans. The Mississippi Flood afforded a still further and more extended trial for the Red Cress and the results were very successful. Already the Red Cross Societies cf Rochester had contributed over $14,000 in money and supplies to the sufferers, and it had not been in existence for a year. In 190 5 the Congress of the United States incorporated the Red Cress and by this act of government assumedvthe right to coatroll its operation. Now the President of the United States,is President of the z Red Cross.Society. But its detailed operations are in the hands of officers of a committee whose chairman is appointed by the President.. Every dollar given to it must be accounted for to officials of the government .In 1913 Congress voted $400,000 for the building cf a national Red Cross building in Washington cn condition that $300,000 mere be raised by the society. This task was easmlt accomplished.

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