The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal (Posthumously) to Miss Jane A. Delano, a United States Civilian, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States in a duty of great responsibility as Director, Department of Nursing, American Red Cross, during World War I. Miss Delano applied her great energy and used her powerful influence among the nurses of the country to secure enrollments in the American Red Cross. Through her great efforts and devotion to duty 18,732 nurses were secured and transferred to the Army Nurse Corps for service during the war. Thus she was a great factor in assisting the Medical Department in caring for the sick and wounded.