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Show RECEPrION IN HONOR OF MADAME CHIANG Along with one hundred members and KAI-SHEK the National Federation of guests Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., President Joyce Frisby and National Personal Development Chairman Frances Lenox greeted Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at a reception in her honor on Friday evening, September 17, 1965, at the Marriott Motor Hotel in Washington, D. C. Business I and of Madame Cpiang Kai-Shek expressed her gratitude to the Business and Pro fessional Women's Clubs for completion of a in project Taipei, Taiwan, Dr. Minnie L. Maffett Nurses Residence. The Nurses Residence is the esult of twenty-three years of work and contributions by members through the Feder ation's Chinese Nurses project which, in 1941, established a fund for contri butions to the training of nurses of the Free the late Dr. Minnie L. Maffett was the Chinese Army. At that time National president of the Federation. Today, 143 nursing students live in the nurses residence and pursue their studies a short distance away at the National Defense Medical Center. Study ing at the Center are 538 students in two nursing programs the Collegiate Nursing Program having 236 and the Higher Vocational Nursing Program, 302. The eagerness of these young people to learn to serve their country is attested to by the absence of recrnitment problems. Six girls compete for every vacancy in the first course; twenty for one opening in the other. -- utah members should be proud of train nurses in free China. contributing through this fund to help President Joyce C. Frisby and Frances Lenox, National Personal Development Chairman, greet Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Page 19 |
