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    "ocrText": "From \"The Detroit Free Press\" May 9, 1907\nWILL SEVER BONDS OF 18 YEARS TO ENTER INTO VISITING NURSES WORK\n\"To sever the bonds of eighteen years, to give up a remunerative\nposition in which honors had been heaped upon honors, to say fare-\nwell to old and happy associations that she may devote herself\nto\na philanthropy which she believes needs ardent support; all this\nand more is comprisedin the fact that Mrs. L. E. Gretter, superin-\ntendent of the Farrand Training School for Nurses, will leave\nHarper Hospital to devote her life to the work of the Visi ting\nNurse Association.\nMrs. Gretter is easily the foremost nurse in Michigan and there\nare few women of the profession anywhere in this country who rank\nwith her\nHer work has had recognition of an unisual order, not only among\nphysicians and murges of Detroit, but she has been the recipient\nof many honors through the country.\nEditorial from the Detroit Free Press, May 10, 1907\n\"In the retirement of Mrs. Lystra E. Cretter, Harper Hospital loses\na woman who has contributed a great deal to the success exemplified\nin the management of this institution\nInmumberable patients have passed under her care and received the\nbenefits of her skillful ministrations. Her life has been devoted\nto the sick and hurt. Hundreds of young women who have gone into the\nworld to follow the profession of nursing, owe their preparation to\nMrs. Gretter's scientific training. It is her determination to de-\nvote the remiinder of her life to the work of the Visiting Nurse\nAssociation. is a loss for Harper Hospital, but the beneficiaries\nof a very helpful and practical form of benevolence gains a friend\"\nFrom the \"Michigan Bu siness Women's Bulletin\" 1923\nMrs. Lystra E. Gretter of the Detroit Visiting Nurses Aggociation has\nbeen chosen to represent the Michigan State Nurses Association at the\nInternational Council of Nurses which meets in Helsingfors, Finland,\nJuly 20-27 1925. Mrs. Gretter has also been chosen as alternate dele-\ngate of the American Nurses Association.\nShe is well gualified to repressnt the profession as a whole, as she\nwas a charter member and also President of the National League of Nursing\nEducation in 1902. She has been a member of the American Red Cross\nsince its inception and Principal of the Farrand Training School for\nNurses for eighteen years.\nShe has participated in every activity devoted to the progress in\neducation for health conservation with ardor, energy and a consecration\nwhich is luminous with the spirit of love and service. She is a woman\nof modesty, but gracious with a magnanimity of soul. She has the patience\nthat is born with the union of knowledge and fait, with love of justice\nas a working principle for society. She is not only a pioneer in nursing\nbut an esteemed and beloved citizen who has seen beyone the activities\nof one group of women into the possibilities of \"woman\" in her entire\nand largest sphere\""
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