In 1944 teacher Ruth Lindsay started the volunteer organization known as the Candy Stripers at Vernon L Davey Junior High School. By the late 1950's, Miss Lindsay was a teacher at East Orange High School and had moved the program there.
Above: Miss Ruth Lindsay in the 1944 Vernon L Davey yearbook
The girls volunteered at East Orange General Hospital.
Below: from the 1958 East Orange High School yearbook
I was a candy stripper at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark in the very early 60s. I had no idea it began in EO. I remember Ruth Lindsey from my EOHS yearbooks, though I never had her as a teacher.
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