Melanie is serving as a volunteer nurse in the local hospital.
She was the only one of the group not to be accepted as a volunteer nurse.
During war she led groups of volunteer nurses who went to the battlefield and treated the casualties.
Each session also has a volunteer nurse to take care of staff and campers if necessary.
It provided volunteer nurses during the typhoid epidemic of 1925.
Now, she said, a volunteer nurse makes a weekly visit to the center.
During the war she sang for Allied soldiers at the front and worked as a volunteer nurse.
"Those were volunteer native nurses, bringing what comfort they could to the troops."
The volunteer nurse started to utter a curt dismissal, only it died on her lips.
She had been a volunteer nurse at the state Capitol and had developed an interest in politics through that experience.
