Polk County

Red Cross Recruiter
Mrs. Paul Howland

Iowans Take Examinations for Army Nursing

Student reserves who have completed applications for the army nursing corps, Marguerite Wallace (left), 21, nurse at Jennie Edmundson hospital, Council Buffs, and Katherine Brynie, (center), 21 of Mercy hospital, Des Moines, discuss their plans with Mrs. Paul Howland, 647 Fifty-seventh st., of the Red Cross recruitment committee. A record class of 576 young women began taking state board nurse examinations Tuesday at the statehouse.

Source: The DesMoines Register, September 20 1944 (photo included)