The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 21

A IM A. I IH. jHfc AMtKiOAN Ktu UKUbb girls, ready to leave Naples for an assignment in the field, get help in loading an amphibious jeep from three GIs. Left to right, the gilrs are Edith Witt, Hollywood; Margaret Chase and Luella Reckmeyer, San Francisco. The soldiers, for i whom the girls set up overseas clubs, include (left IN KODIAK, ALASKA, American Re'd Cross girls operate the "country club," known as the Kodiak Ski Chalet, a complement to the Red Cross club there.

Watching William D. Frazer cut the ribbon at the club's opening were (left to right, back of counter) Marian Morrow, Richmond; Arthur Larkin, Harry Roye; Lois Plumb, New Jersey; Jeanette Griswold, Hanford; Erdene Wessel and Marie Halbig, San Francisco. Tales Out of May fair Jeannine Lazard, Who Evaded Nazis, Soon to Return to Paris Home WITH THE LIBERATION of France her native land Jeannine Lazard, numbered for the past five years among local lasses, will soon be returning home. Any day now Jeannine expects word that all passage details are in readiness and then she will leave for Nf York on the first lap of the homeward trip. And home returning will be vastly different from homeland departure, when Jeannine, after a host of difficulties, successfully evaded the Nazi forces and finally arrived here to find shelter with her sister-in-law, Mrs.

Claude Lazard (Esther Ehrman). There have been few idle hours for the attractive young refugee during her sojourn here. In addition to holding a fulltime job at a local bank, she has been actively identified with activities of the French War Relief Shop, while it was operating here, and is num JQ 1 11 1 -J 'aw i to rigruj rvr. oaivaTore vongema, oogT. Maynara Lange and Pfc.

Ormond Lucas of Uncle Sam's army. Red Cross Girl From Far Pacific Reveals Highlights of Work By Hazel Holly TN ALMOST EVERY part of the world today, Amer-J- ican girls, wearing the uniform of the Red Cross, or GI issue coveralls are serving American troops. They feed them, they write their letters for them, they give dances, they admire pictures of their families, they are symbols of the life at home for which the men are fighting. Last San Franciscan Ruth Desmond arrived home on emergency leave from Leyte still wearing the GI issue clothing, which is regulation for all Red Cross girls in the South Pacific. As supervisor of mobile units for New Guinea, where she served for fourteen months after a year's service in Alaska and the Aleutians, Ruth Desmond knows a lot about the girls who make and serve doughnuts until they never want to see one again, who ARODND THE WORLD, San Francisco girls are helping entertain and feed the men who fight this war as overseas workers of the American Red Cross.

Work' is hard, but they have time for fun. In Ban, Italy, Rose Diliberto, Massachusetts; Evo Leinow of San Francisco, and Emily Whitman, Massachusetts, find this native carriage quaint and practical in a land where military transportation is at a premium. bered among one of the best workers at the National Defenders' Club. Wartime Town Type Donors Establish New Type of Blood Fraternity By Marion McEniry have learned to convert a truck into a clubmobile, or to get lumber for a club where no lumber is available; who have learned how to treat every man alike, with an impersonal friendliness that doesn't involve any one in personalities. If you ask her what manner of person thi3 typical Americal girl overseas is, Ruth Desmond tells you that the girls who can best "get the show on the road" (which means getting any job done quickly and well) (Continued on Page Col.

S) Awaiting her return to Paris is her mother, Mrs. Christian Lazard, who remained in the French capital doing Red Cross work during the Nazi occupation. Not so fortunate was Jeannine's father, who was captured by the invaders and who, according to last word received here, is still interned in a German prison camp. A leading French banker and member of a well known family, Mr. Lazard first met localites (Continued on Page If, Col.

3) bombers to England for the Ferry Command. Then her mother put her foot down; it was too dangerous. So now that's Vickie you see 'way up there at the top of a ship's mast. Her job one that many a man welder doesn't care to do is to weld journey boxes and brackets on top of slender masts, some 150 feet above the water line. In San Luis Obispo last month Mrs.

Eduvigues Correa celebrated an important birthday. The first white child to be born in San Luis Obispo Mission, she rounded the century mark on February 22. Her father was administrator of the three missions at San Luis Obispo, San Miguel and (Continued on Page Col. 1) rpHERE'S A NEW sort of blood brotherhood develop-ing these days out of the gifts of Type whole blood. A sensitive man cannot be wholly indifferent to the individual whose blood now flows in his veins.

Nor can donor John Smith or Mary Brown fail to wonder about and be concerned for the well-being of the man who now has a bit of him or her pumping through his heart. The identity of blood given for plasma is necessarily lost. Plasma is packaged, so to speak, in wholesale lots. But each donation of whole blood is flown out in its own pint container with the name of the 1 ramilies Leaves From Cholly's Notebook Countryside Lures --By Cholly Francisco' Women's Editor, The Examiner donor on it. And a mounting stack of letters at the Red Cross Blood Donor Center attests the beginnings of new friendships being formed on the basis of this personal bond.

Last week, for example, Marine Pvt. Stephen Ritterbush, antiaircraft gunner, recovering from wounds sustained in a recent Pacific action, wrote the Red Cross here: "I'd appreciate any help you can give me in locating my blood donor, Carl J. Chauvie. I'd like to convey my thanks. The day he donated that blood, January 31, was my birthday.

What better present could. a man receive? "The work of all you blood donor people does not pay off in medals or glory but I can assure you it will never be forgotten by us out here. It gives us literally the strength to carry on. I'd like Chauvie to know his blood found its way to an appreciative owner." The Red Cross located Chauvie. It found he was one of the thousands of servicemen who have given their blood for their fellows in the service Staff Sergeant Chauvie now stationed at Fort Baker.

FROM OUR favorite newspaper, The Ahwahnee News, published by the Navy lads recuperating at Yosemite "Girls are like newspapers they have forms; they always have the last word; back numbers are not in demand; they're thinner than they used to be; they get along by advertising; every man should have his own and not try to borrow his neighbor's." i ABOUT PEOPLE: Victoria Saavendra, age 19, is one of the youngest welders at Marinship. With quite a lot of flying time to her credit, she once hoped to fly NAME DECISIONS The second son of the Zadoc White Browns (Virginia Lowrey), to be called Alan Lowrey for maternal grandpere. The recent FIRST addition for Lieutenant and Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler III (Kate Lil- lard) to be Nita Irvine Wheeler Nita is for maternal grandmere and ditto great-grandmere. SORORITY GET-TOGETHER.

Delta Gamma alumnae to meet Tuesday for dessert and bridge at the Thirty-ninth Avenue home of Janice Himmelwright. REUNION INTERLUDE. Lt. Robert M. Savage, back from lengthy overseas duty with the Navy and spending his leave with his wife, the former Marian Pfau They'll spend part of the time in Pasadena with her family.

PAPER MILESTONE Lieutenant and Mrs. David C. Way bur (Dorothy Ann Culver) observing their first nuptial anniversary today. TWO CANDLES. The second birthday of Stuart Rawlings III celebrated yesterday at a young fry gathering given by his mother, Mrs.

Stuart Rawlings Jr. I fc NURSERY CONSCIOUS. The George Smiths (Terry Babcock) readying for a first family addition come May. pITY DESERTERS are becoming more frequent by the day. Lately the local young marrieds have been trekking off to the nearby countrysides where they've either bought or rented homes.

Augmenting the young married group in San Rafael in the early summer will be the Oliver Lombardis (Mary Nickel), who have just sold their town house for a Marin domicile. Since their marriage lour years ago, Mary and Ollie have been cityites. And come moving time, they'll have a playmate for their youngsters, Polly and Peter. Choosing country over town recently were Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Oyster Jr. (Patricia Maginis), who have been in their newly purchased Ross house since last month. Pat and Al and their young daughter were formerly Seacliff dwellers. To the East Bay countryside recently went two couples always active in the local young married set. Dr.

and Mrs. John Lawrence (Amy Bowles) and infant son are now occupants of a home at Moraga. And about a mile away is Amy's close friend, Kate Lillard Wheeler, who with her husband, Navy Lt. Charles Stetson Wheeler III, took up residence there a few months ago. A brand new occupant of the Whwler nursery is their two week old daughter.

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