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    "ocrText": "April 22, 1942\nPresident, Alumne Association\nButterworth Hospital School of Nursing\nGrand Rapids, Mishigon\nDear President:\nThe Alwane Association of the Butterworth Hospital School of Nursing will,\nI think, be particularly interested in the subject of this letter. As\nof course you all know, Frances A. Bacon, Laurine A. Smith, from your\nSchool, volunteered to serve with the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital\nfor communicable diseases in England. You have probably followed the\ninteresting experiences the nurous in tist group are having in Salisbury\nnow. Perhaps you do not anow hou valuable their work is. The British\nMinistry of Health hus been most compligentary in regird to it. As on\nexample of its value, if a single case of typhus fever should appear in\nEngland, it is this Unit which would be sent by the Ministry of Health\nto take assures which there is every reason to believe would control the\nterrible monace to the people of Ingland.\nlie are all very proud of the work of this group of Red Cro a nurses. To\nhear of it from anny different groups of people and almays with great\nrespect and administion for the nurses. It has been decided both by\nHarvard University and by the Red Cross that the work of the Unit should\ncontinue and it is hoped many of the present group will decide to remain\nwith it. There could be no more important war work anywhere than this.\nYou will remember the tragedy of the torpedoing and shipsreck of the\nS.S. Maasden and S.S. Vigrid lest June, and you will remember too, I\nthink, that five of these nurses and their housenother, Mrs. Ruth Breck-\ninridge, lost their lives then, their lifebost went to pioces after\nMaaaden was torpedood.\nFriends of Mrs. Breckinridge have wented to give a memorial to her end\nhave felt that the kind of memorial she would have liked best would be\na sur of money to be placed with the American Red Cross which would con-\nstitute a loan fund for the returned nurses of the Red Cross-Harvard Unit.\nNo one is being acked to give any money to this memoriel, but friends of\nthe Unit are being told about it so that if they wish to have a part in\nbuilding up this fund, the opportunity will be given to them to do so."
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