Hidden Treasures (and Some Treasures That Should Remain Hidden)

In an organization as old as the Red Cross (our chapter is a strapping 92 years old!), you find some odd things tucked away in corners. For instance, if you venture down to the closets in one of our classrooms, you will find a wealth of forgotten treasures, artifacts, and memorabilia.
Our trusty AmeriCorps members, Cassidhe [...]

1930s Red Cross: NY Mayor La Guardia opens Red Cross drive, November 1938

This is a neat old video we came across. Enjoy this little nugget of history from the Red Cross and our sister chapter in NYC! (Also enjoy the amusing theatrical tones of peoples’ voices in the 1930s…why doesn’t anyone talk like that anymore?)

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Local WWII Concentration Camp Survivor Tells Us Her Story

Yesterday, we got a surprise visitor in the person of Diet Eman, a Kentwood resident and former Dutch Resistance fighter during World War II. We sat and talked with Diet for close to an hour and were simply amazed at her stories of living in a concentration camp and receiving Red Cross packages, which turned [...]

Pass the Potato Salad, Clara!

Check out this neat photo of Clara Barton and her Red Cross friends enjoying the great outdoors with a picnic in 1898. (Thanks to the State Library and Archives of Florida for this photo!)

In these first beautiful days of spring in West Michigan, make sure to follow Clara’s example and get outside! And in case [...]