Show Gray Ladies Rate Honors Honor Gray is a quiet color In a a. a background it is not noticed It merely blends with its surroundings surroundings surroundings surround surround- ings and is satisfactory It does a lot for other colors The Gray Ladies corps chose its name well Quietly unobtrusively unobtrusively unobtrusively the members have gone about their hospital work long before the war war and and since the beginning of ot the present conflict conflict con con- they have been very busy and now there are thousands of ot boys and men In the armed services services services ices who think of them gratefully gratefully gratefully grate grate- fully and affectionately A large number of well-known well Salt Lake women women belong 42 belong to the Gray Ladies corps at the Kearns army air forces overseas replacement depot With little talk or fuss these Gray Ladies Ladles at Kearns have been doing a big job From July 1943 1913 to July 1944 they served more than hours at the overseas re replacement replacement replacement re- re placement depot station hospital The Gray Ladies annual report to the Pacific area office of the American Red Cross at San Francisco has just been made and the record of these volunteer workers speaks for itself To retain membership each member Is required to put in m at least hours of service yearly Fourteen of ot the Kearns corps have given more than hours during the past year and the t yearly average for all of them is s hours Mrs E E. P P. P Brown chairman of the Kearns group is credited with nearly hours What did the Kearns Gray Ladies do during the hours they served last year The Gray Ladies are hospital and recreation corps They provided a shopping service for the patients patients patients pa pa- distributed books games and magazines to the hospital wards sponsored entertainments entertainments entertainments entertain entertain- ments parties and picnics acted as hostesses in the recreation hall took flowers from the post greenhouse to the patients helped in handicraft work visited vis visited vis- vis with the patients wrote letters letters letters let let- for them sponsored teas conducted community singing played the piano and furnished entertainment in the hospital wards |