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    "ocrText": "COPY of clipping from The Carmel Pine Cone-Cymbal\nDOROTHY LEDYARD\nWith the passing of Dorothy Ledyard, whose funeral service was read by Dr. J.E. Crowther\nin Monterey last Saturday, Carmel lost one of its most beloved and valuable citizens.\nMiss Ledyard first became widely known on the Peninsula as partner and co-manager of\nPeter Pan Lodge where, for seven years, she not only fed but also entertained her guests with\nthe abounding zest and generosity of spirit that characterized all she did. Later, she made\na still wider circle of friends by means of her radio broadcasts which were a regular morning\nfeature on KPO, KSFO and KFRC for some months during 1942-43.\nA native of The Dalles, Washington, she spent her early years in San Jose. Abandoning\ndreams of a stage career, she became a student at Mills College. After graduating in 1914,\nshe taught for some time and then decided to take nurse's training. She entered the Children's\nHospital in San Francisco, obtaining her diploma in 1917 and was immediately offered, and\naccepted, the position of assistant superintendent of nurses there.\nTo equip herself to serve her country in World War I, she took additional training as an\nanesthetist and shortly after the outbreak of the war, joined the Red Cross and proceeded over-\nseas in time to assist with the avalanche of casualties coming in to the Paris hospitals from\nthe battle of Verdun.\nThe war over+ Miss Ledyard was sent into Germany by the Allied Peace Commission to ascer-\ntain the truth about the rumors of starvation among the civilian population and there assisted\nin making a nutritional survey. This stimulated her interest in public health problems and\nupon her return to the United States she attended Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio,\nfor some special courses in public health work. Upon completion of her course, in 1920, she\naccepted a position as a public health nurse in Yuba and Sutter Counties of California, where\nshe started the first nursery, in a cannery, for the convenience of working mothers.\nHer talents were such that she was called from this post after six months to represent\nthe United States at an International course in advanced public health nursing, conducted\nunder the auspices of the League of Red Cross societies at King's College in London, one of\na group of students from 19 different countries.\nUpon the completion of the course, Miss Ledyard was asked by the Red Cross to go to Prague,\nCzecho-Slovakia, to help organize a new Child Welfare department, a work which flourished there\nuntil the time of the Muncih pact. With its orgahization complete, she spent a year in Geneva,\nSwitzerland, working with the League of Red Cross societies.\nReturning again to California, this widely experienced young woman joined the staff of\nthe Pacific branch of the American Red Cross and eventually became director of Nursing Service\nfor the seven westernmost states and Alaska, with headquarters in San Francisco.\nPurely administrative work, however, failed to satisfy the warmly human character of Dorothy\nLedyard; she preferred personal ministration in some form, and above all, she longed for the\nbeauty of this coast line and a life more close to nature. After five years she resigned the\nhigh post she had attained in her profession and came to live quietly among us--where she has\nbeen, off and on, ever since, always working hard, yet managing at the same time to give\nexpression to the artistic and hospitable sides of her nature."
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