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Massachusetts. General"Hospital
Boston
NATHANIEL w. FAXON, M.D.
DIRECTOR
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES
SALLY JOHNSON, R. N. PRINCIPAL
November 26, 1940
Miss Patience L. Clarke, Chief Nurse
American Red Cross - Harvard Hospital Unit
National Headquarters, American Red Cross
Washington, D. C.
My dear Miss Clarke:
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Mary Louise Carpenter was graduated from this School of Nursing on Septem-
ber 20, 1940. Previous to coming to us she had been graduated from Vassar
College and had had considerable experience in apprentice teaching and in
one or two other minor activities.
Miss Carpenter found her adjustments here rather difficult. She was in-
clined to be easily distraught, and if you can picture some water animal
in the center of a pond become, frightened and then try to swim to forty
different points on the periphery of the pond, you have a picture of
Miss Carpenter's early performance with us. She is a prodigious reader and
everything else had to take second place. Let me hasten to say, however,
that she always did a very high grade of class work.
Miss Carpenter had been here nearly two years before she took any part in
our school activities, but after talking the matter out with her, she
really did very well in this matter. She comes from a family of culture
and education. I am of the opinion that she has been considered somewhat
of a misfit in "Society". I have seen the mother, who quite frankly talks
about the situation and the cousins and other relatives who have "made good
marriages".
If I requested the students to do a better job in pulling down the bedclothes
for airing, I found Miss Carpenter's just as she crawled out. This is not
because she wished to be unco-operative, but that kind of request made no
impression.
In spite of what I have written, I believe that Miss Carpenter, during the
last year, has developed a real interest in nursing. As you would expect,
she is absolutely sound in the essentials: honest, upright and refined.
I have asked myself whether or not, if I were in your place and not knowing
her, I would wish her as a member of the Unit. I know that I would want her.
Otherwise I would not recommend her to you. She is one of the most intel-
I
ligent young women I have ever known, and while she may sometimes be trying,
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this is comfort as 5 tense to - but have form home and suich
8
to fun this letter - the mail mist you will get repoint! sg.
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