Jack Robinson and Joy Fern Riley of Paschal High handing Red Cross roll call collections to Miss Grace Burkett, sponsor

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Identifier

20031513

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Jack Robinson and Joy Fern Riley of Paschal High handing Red Cross roll call collections to Miss Grace Burkett, sponsor. The setting is a classroom with what look like double-hung sash windows over a sill that sits atop radiators in a classroom. In the foreground is a desk with a calendar blotter, a vase of aster-family flowers, and a shallow box with what look like order forms, small tags, and small tablets. There is a round typewriter eraser with a brush sticking out from under the box. The sponsoring teacher Burkett is seated at her desk, wearing a flower print dress with a contrasting collar and a self-tie neckline. There is apparently a matching jacket that is hanging on the chair behind her. She is wearing combs and bobby pins in her hair, eyeglasses, and a wristwatch or bracelet. She is holding a piece of paper and an envelope that are also being grasped by Joy Fern. Behind Ms. Burkett is Jack, who is wearing a light short-sleeved shirt and dark pants. He is holding a manila folder out to Burkett. Fern is wearing a multi-tiered prairie or peasant skirt made of gingham, a white button blouse is tucked into the skirt, and over the top she is wearing an open cable knit cardigan sweater with 3/4 length sleeves. There may be an ornamental pin on her sweater and she is wearing a ring on her left hand. There are books and a pair of scissors on a table behind Joy Fern. Clipping: "35 Tarrant Schools Are '100 Per Cent Red Cross' With the Junior Red Cross' annual roll call but a week underway, more than 35 Tarrant County schools already have reported 100 per cent enrollment, according to Miss Mamie Brightwell, volunteer chairman. Sponsors expect that by the end of the campaign on Nov. 15, the 40,000 school children in the county will all be Junior Red Cross members, bettering last year's nearly perfect record, when 100 per cent enrollment was achieved after the conclusion of roll call. First school to complete enrollment in this year's campaign was James E. Guinn Negro School, and Paschal High School was the first city high school to report 100 per cent membership. The largest per capita collections so far came from Rosemont Junior High School, where 232 students contributed more that $175. Tarrant County's Junior Red Cross members sent several thousand Halloween articles to Camps Swift, Maxey, and Wolters, Fort Worth Army Air Field and the United States Public Health Service Hospital. Last week they shipped 2,700 articles for Christmas decorations overseas, and sent 1,000 Yule menu covers to the Marines. During the month they also filled an emergency call from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., for five folding tables. Their record for the years includes 29,234 articles collected for camps, 9,000 articles (knitted, sewn, wood-carved, etc.) and 10,000 holiday articles made. The Juniors shipped 150 gift boxes to children overseas, contributed $150 to the National Children's Fund, and furnished a day room at Camp Howze. During the year 1,459 members completed first aid courses, and 182 home nursing and 157 nutrition certificates were issues. Mrs. Alma Jones is county Junior Red Cross director." Stamped: Star-Telegram Morn. Nov. 7, 1943

Archival Date

1943-11-06

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-295

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

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JPG

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Volunteers; Volunteer work; DonationsTexas schools