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    "ocrText": "to\ne\nM\na\nJanuary 14, 1937\nMiss Mary H. Bethel\nChief Registrar, Nurses' Official Registry\nParlor D, Henry Grady Hotel\nAtlenta, Georgia\nMy dear Miss Bethels\nThis is a personal letter from me to you\nbecause I feel I know you. I have so often heard Miss Noyes\nspeak of you.\nI was surprised, and must confess very much\nrelieved, to hear of your location and your work in Atlanta, Georgia,\nand we are now taking the necessary steps toward your transfer to\nour Local Committee in that city. This letter will be marked\n\"Bersonal and confidential because I shall have to speak to you\nrather frankly about our Atlanta, Georgia, Local Committee on Red\nCross Nursing Service. We have had a great deal of trouble for\nvarious reasons. In the first place, the Chairman and Secretary\nare not at all congenial and do not seem to get on together.\nEvidently the Secretary lives in a rather remote place, so far\nas being able to reach her quickly is concerned and, as a matter\nof fact, she never appears to be on hand when she is most needed.\nYou will remember the most unfortunate occurrences in connection\nwith the disasters last spring, which we must do everything possible\nto avoid in the future.\nAs soon aslocated we you as the Registrar in\nAtlenta, I wanted to write you but have been trying to bring about\nsome sort of a reorganization of the Committee. Apparently, Mrs.\nAustin, the Chairman of the Local Committee, has no intention of\nresigning and we must keep her in that office for a while at least.\nHowever, if we do succeed in persuading the Committee to adopt\nthe rotating system, she will automatically rotate off in time.\nI am attaching an outline of the rotating system for Local Com-\nmittees, for you to study.\nWe have been assured that Miss Candlish will\nresign as Secretary of the Local Committee and if she does, this\nwill of course make a place for a new Secretary whose appointment\nwe will postpone until our Nursing Field Representative, Miss\nAlice Dugger, can go to Atlanta early in the spring when she will\nassist Miss Austin with the reorganization of the Committee."
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