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Red Cross Workers Around a Table
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Group of women reading "Canteen Corps" pamphlets and planning Red Cross nutrition classes for civil service employees. l to r: Vivian Holland, chairman of nutrition and canteen enrollment in the Capitol and State Office Building; Ruby Taff, Mendota State Hospital chairman; Alice Ferguson, teacher of Civil Service nutrition classes; Janet Nelson, (standing) Wisconsin State Employee Magazine reporter; Mrs. O.A. Fried, chairman of Red Cross nutrition and canteen work in Dane County; and Carol Miller, University Employees nutrition chairman. Classes were formed in response to young men being rejected from military service on the grounds of health deficiency.
March 13, 1942
Stein, George H., 1913-2004
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