WORLD NURSING FOUNDATION
MISS M. I. LAMBIE NEW PRESIDENT
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. For the first time a New Zealander has become world president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation. She is Miss M. I. Lambie, 0.8. E., of Wellington, director of Nursing Services. Because of the war, there has been no regular election of the world president. Miss Alexander, of South Africa, is the retiring occupant of the office. Ae world headquarters of the Foundation are in London. The organisation was founded in 1934 to establish a permanent international memorial to Florence Nightingale in the form of an endowed trust for postgraduate nursing education. The foundation works through affiliated national committees, which raise money for endowment and grant schol- 1 arships, usually to nurses from their Own country.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24986, 21 September 1946, Page 2
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