RED CROSS BOX 1


March 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Aug. 6, 1910: Received its charter. The first chairman was Dr. Ida Clark.

March, 1917: During World War I, raised $50,000 in less than a week to create and equip a field hospital that was set up in France.

1918-1919: Set up emergency hospitals here to take care of flu patients; Motor Corps delivered food and medicines to homes of flu victims.

1920: Moved its headquarters from the Mahoning County Courthouse to 207 W. Federal St., Youngstown.

1924: Moved to the fourth floor of the Stambaugh Building, Youngstown.

1930s: During the Great Depression, volunteer women sewed daily making clothing for area families.

1939: Returned to a war mode with the advent of World War II; collected clothing and blankets to be sent to Europe.

1941: Established the volunteer Nurses Aid Service to train nurses aides for local hospitals to fill in for nurses who enlisted in the Armed Forces.

1942: Organized blood program to provide to provide plasma for military personnel.

September 1943: Moved to the fifth floor of the Ohio Edison Building at Boardman and Champion Streets, and the Ohio Edison Annex at 117 South Champion, which became the Chapter House.

1945: Downsized after WWII, closed the Champion Street facility and consolidated into the Ohio Edison Building.

1948: Home Service Department helped 7,000 veterans and 387 next-of-kin file claims for the Ohio Bonus.

1948: Established Gray Ladies to provide help at the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium.

1950: Returned to war mode as the Korean War began; purchased property at 266 West Wood St. for a chapter house; moved in on Dec. 7, 1951.

1959: Smith Township, Beloit and Sebring left the Mahoning Chapter and joined the Alliance Chapter.

1960: Hubbard and Hubbard township rejoined the Mahoning Chapter.

1992: Moved to 8392 Tod Ave. off McClurg Road, Boardman.

The American Red Cross Mahoning Chapter is seeking volunteers to help compile the chapter’s history over the last 50 years. If interested, contact Gail Froomkin, director of public relations and fundraising, at (330) 726-6063.