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Show ONLY WOMAN MAJOR IN ARMY ! Julia C. Stimson, Dean of School of Nursing, Served as Chief Nurse . of Red Cross. The superintendent of the army nurse corps and dean of the Army Behool of Nursing, Nurs-ing, Is the only woman major In Jie United States irmy. Maj. Julia C. Stlmson served as chief nurse of the American Red Cross in Paris and later as director di-rector of the American e x p e-ditionary e-ditionary forces l u r s ing service, n-ith 10,000 nurses under her control during me World war, before becoming superintendent of the army nurse corps and bend of the school oi nursing. Major Stimson was born in Worcester, Worces-ter, Mass., and graduated from Vassar when barely twenty years of age. She first went overseas as chief nurse of the St. Louis unit, base hospital No. 21. She holds numerous awards and citations for her services during the war. One of the major's most recent experiences ex-periences was the honor of. christening christen-ing the army transport Chaumont. "General Pershing was there," Major Stimson said in speaking of the event, "and I spilled champagne all over the general's best uniform when I broke J the bottle over the bow." |