Alice Fitzgerald's Polish Red Cross Nursing Education medal

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Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This medal is for her work with the American Red Cross establishing two schools of nursing in Poland. Circular gold-colored medal with raised laurel wreath around the rim and an enamel red cross in the center with a metal eagle atop it; suspended from a white ribbon with two narrow red stripes, one near each side; metal pin at the top. Inscriptions engraved on the back: "P.C.K." [for Polski Czerwony Krzyz, the Polish Red Cross] and "Zastudze"