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Clara Barton: Clara Barton Society
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The Clara Barton Society is comprised of individuals who share her caring and commitment through their generous support of the American Red Cross. Members who support the American Red Cross of Santa Monica at one of the following levels within a given calendar year are distinguished as members of special donor clubs:
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Clara Barton, who had been a schoolteacher and the first woman to be a clerk at the US Patent Office, served in the Civil War nursing soldiers and distributing supplies for the sick and wounded. She spent four years tracking down missing soldiers at the end of the war. Clara Barton established the first permanent American Red Cross society and headed the organization until 1904.
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Clara Barton returned to the United States in 1873 and began to urge United States membership in the Red Gross. The Red Cross had been founded in Switzerland as a result of the Geneva Convention of 1864. She was finally successful in 1881 and was chosen first president of the American Red Cross Society.
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Membership in The Clara Barton Society means that you will join those who have made a substantial gift to support the work of the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter. Your financial commitment will sustain the capacity of the Red Cross to respond immediately, to provide relief in times of crisis, to recruit and train volunteers, and to be prepared. You will share a commitment to the community unique to the Red Cross and unique to Society members. The benefits of membership follow—higher levels of membership receive additional recognition and enjoy all other benefits listed at lower levels.
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All members of the Clara Barton Society, are entitled to VIP donor privileges, which differ with the amount given. Benefits include recognition on chapter donor walls and in chapter publications, select recognition gifts and invitations to “member’s only” special events. All benefits are optional and may be accepted or declined as desired by each donor.
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In the war's aftermath, Barton lectured about her experiences. She ... continued her work at the Office of Correspondence, attempting to learn the fates of missing soldiers. Barton traveled to Europe and returned to America devoted to gaining her nation's signature on the Treaty of Geneva. She was also energized to establish the Red Cross in the western hemisphere, and she did so in 1881, serving as its first president. She expanded the organization's purview to include responses to peacetime as well as wartime disasters. Her contributions to society were many, as teacher, nurse and humanitarian.
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