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    "ocrText": "VASSAR COLLEGE\nPnughkeepsie, N. Y.\nPresident's Office.\nApril 19, 1919.\nThe death in active service of Jane A. Delano at Savenay, France, on\nAmerica's efficient womanhood. It is generally conceded today that the highest\nApril 15, brings to a close one of the most remarkable careers in the history of\nhuman abilities are associated, not with the imaginative or the constructive\nbut rather with the capacities for management. Certainly, while our\npowers, has had many inventors and law-makers, she has had few endowed by nature\nwith country the tact, the patience and the will of the great administrator. of this\nMiss Delano - if my association and friendship with her entitles me to\nhazard which class was the apparently prediction limitless, - will be she among added the foremost. an independence To a of vigor spirit of mind She and possessed and a strength body\nof character which would have made her a leader in any profession.\nalso the inestimable girt of understanding and sympathy for the plans and hopes of\nwas bold and resourceful, and had this quality of the ideal administrator, - that\nothers, even in the profession for which she had. worked so long. In action she\n4\nshe assumed and acknowledged full responsibility for all decisions.\nI\nFrom the beginning of her career, when, in advance of medical science, in the\nshe insisted upon the use of mosquito netting for her yellow fever patients com-\nW\nsouth, up to the day of her death, when, with the survey of American nursing\n0\nplete, of nursing for France, Miss Delano was in advance of her time and of the standards\nand the great record of the war behind her, she was engaged upon a survey\nof her profession - a leader always.\nFrom first to last throughout the war one of her principal tasks the was\nthe study and patient sifting of ideas presented to her for the increase situations of\nnursing service and its efficiency, and her wisdom in dealing with the\nwhich arose was unfailing.\nMiss Delano's service - always as a volunteer - in the capacity of\ndirection\nof the Department of Nursing of the American Red Cross, included Her work some as of\nthe most important steps in the history of nursing in this country. factors in\nthe second superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps was one of the chief and its\nmaintaining the efficient relations which have existed between that body various\nreserve supply, the American Red Cross Nursing Service. Through the about a\noffices she filled in the Associations of Nursing she was able to bring and the\ncomplete coordination with the American Nurses Association, the Red Cross the greates\nvalue at the outbreak of war. The experts from the War Department who could\nArmy Nurse Corps. Her registration of nurses in the Red Cross was of investigated\nher office at the beginning of hostilities, stated that no recommendations most\nefficient lines. The Red Cross nurses, it is stated in a letter to me Miss\nbe made regarding improvements as it was already established along the by\nMaxwell of the Presbyterian Hospital, were the only body of women so organized\nthat they could be called upon for immediate action on the declaration of war."
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