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THE BETTE MILLER GRAY LADY
SCRAPBOOK COLLECTION
INTRODUCTION
The Bette Miller Gray Lady Scrapbook Collection was accessioned into the Piqua Public Library Archives and Special Collections as part of a larger donation from her daughters, Barbara Treon and Rhonda Heffner. Bette Miller was an original member of the Piqua Memorial Hospital Red Cross Gray Ladies. She rose through the organization to become the Chairman of the Piqua Memorial Gray Ladies.
The collection consists of materials found in a single scrapbook kept by Bette Miller of her years in the Piqua Memorial Gray Ladies and as Chairman of the Gray Ladies. The collection is housed in a single Hollinger box. Ownership of the collection has been transferred to the Piqua Public Library and there are no restrictions on the use of the materials in the collection.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Bette Miller Gray Lady Scrapbook Collection is housed in a single Hollinger box and is divided into six series as follows:
SERIES I: GRAY LADY CAPPING CEREMONY PROGRAMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS – Box 1 Files 1-8
SERIES II: GRAY LADY INFORMATION AND MATERIALS – Box 1 Files 9-19
SERIES III: GRAY LADY NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS – Box 1 File 20
SERIES IV: RED CROSS MATERIALS AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS – Box 1 Files 21-25
SERIES V: PIQUA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INFORMATION NEWSLETTERS, MEMOS, AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS – Box 1 Files 26-29
SERIES VI: MISCELLANEOUS – Box 1 File 30
BOX INVENTORY
BOX 1
SERIES I: GRAY LADY CAPPING CEREMONY PROGRAMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
File
1 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 9 July 1963
2 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 23 January 1964
3 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 21 April 1967
4 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 12 October 1967 (3 copies)
5 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 27 May 1969 (3 copies)
6 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 30 April 1970 (3 copies)
7 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony – 3 February 1972
8 Gray Lady Capping Ceremony Photographs – 2 February 1967 and 27 May 1969
SERIES II: GRAY LADY INFORMATION AND MATERIALS
9 Partial page from a Piqua Memorial Hospital newsletter announcing that Mrs. Richard C. Miller (Bette) has become Chairman of the Gray Lady program.
10 Rules and Regulations for Gray Ladies at Piqua Memorial Hospital
11 Principles of Volunteering
12 Application for Gray Lady Service
13 Gray Lady Instructions (1963) and Gray Lady Instructions (1966)
14 Schedule for Gray Lady Class – May 27 & 28, 1963 and 1 June 1967
15 Gray Lady Business Meeting announcement
16 Gray Lady Schedule – Piqua Memorial Hospital
17 Gray Lady Roster – 1967 and 1969
18 Gray Lady Accumulated Hours tables – 1963-1968 (2) and 1963-1969 (2)
19 American National Red Cross certificates issued to Bette Miller for completion of the prescribe course for Gray Ladies – 9 July 1963 (2)
SERIES III: GRAY LADY NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
20 Eight newspaper clippings some dated 1963-1968 and others undated
SERIES IV: RED CROSS MATERIALS AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
21 Piqua Chapter Red Cross 1969 Bloodmobile Schedule
22 American Red Cross Volunteer – the Gray Lady flier advertising and recruiting for Gray Ladies.
23 Invitation to visit the new Piqua Chapter of the American National Red Cross headquarters on the fourth floor of the Orr Flesh Building – 22 September (year not given)
24 Piqua Chapter American Red Cross Annual Dinner Meeting, 15 September 1970 – program
25 Six Red Cross newspaper clippings dated from 1967-1986
SERIES V: PIQUA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INFORMATION NEWSLETTERS, MEMOS, AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
26 “Memorial Monthly Memo” – Piqua Memorial newsletters for June 1967, November 1967, December 1968 and July 1969
27 Artists Conception of the “New Hospital Building” – 1970’s addition and renovation fund raising brochure
28 Piqua Memorial Hospital Statistical Summary, Month of May, 1968
29 Piqua Memorial Hospital newspaper clippings 1965-1968 (7)
SERIES VI: MISCELLANEOUS
30 “He Stubbed His Toe” – poem, author unknown