January 8, 1945

Sirs:

As Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps …

RAY C. HUFF, R.N. Chairman of the Board Alumni Assn.
Mills Training School, Inc. Bellevue Men Nurses New York City

* Federal law (1901) bars the Army Nurse Corps to male nurses (U.S. total: 7,500-odd). ”” ED.

Source: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,775269,00.html