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    "ocrText": "Miss Clara D. Noyes - 2\nNovember 8, 1930\nAll thishas a bearing on our relationship with the\nArmenian Red Cross Nurses Training School at Erivan. Miss MacFetridge\nknew enough of the language to feel at home in Erivan. She also had\na\nlot of friends there. Therefore her isolation was not as great as\nwould be the case if a new American nurse went in there who did not\nknow the language and had no circle of friends in the city. In\naddition, Miss MacFetridge was a genius in her quiet way. The doctors\nand nurses wanted to do the things that she thought ought to be done\nsimply because of the way she presented the matter.\nTo summarize, there will be fewer Americans in the\nCaucasus than ever before, even should our Committee take favorable\naction on this consultant relationship. If Miss Teal were selected\nand sent we might be putting her up against an impossible proposition.\nIt is certainly true that she would have to be a rare diplomat and have\na great capacity for enjoying her own company, in order to be contented\nand successful. My own feeling is that we should send two nurses if we\nsend any.\nI have no doubt with regard to the opportunity but I\ndo want your judgment as to whether or not it is reasonable to expect\ntwo American girls to live in this isolation. Will you also tell me\nhow it would be possible for us to meet Miss Teal and talk the matter\nover with her, should you advise it.\nSincerely\nBarclay Acheson\nBaulay Achuon\nExecutive Secretary"
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