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    "ocrText": "June 19, 1942\nMy dear Miss Fitch:\nI am writing to say that we are very happy to have you in our list of\nactive Red Cross nurses serving our Country away from the mainland of the United\nStates. The adventure on which you are embarking involves many governmental\nagencies, and the Red Cross, because it is only seni-governmental, is able to\nhelp launch it and get it well started. It is, as you know, to be turned over\nto the United States Government at a given time. There can be no doubt that\nyour mission is a very important one and I know that you can be truly proud to\nhave volunteered your services to go.\nYou will understand, perhaps, that in these war-time assignments it is\nalmost always true that there are periods of very great activity for the nursing\ngroup and at other periods such a, group is almost completely idle. It is harder\nto be patient at the idle times than at the busy ones, but if we recognize such\nperiods as conditions involved in war, I think we can more easily accept them.\nAs you perhaps know, Miss Margaret Tracy, Director of the School of\nNursing at the University of California, went to Hawaii with the first group of\nyour Unit. When she returned she came to Washington and after meeting and report-\ning to our group here at Headquarters, she went to New York. There a meeting was\ncalled to which the following came: Miss Alta E. Dines of the Community Service\nSoceity of New York; Miss Mary M. Roberts, Editor of the American Journal of\nNursing; Miss Julia C. Stimson, President of the American Nurses' Association;\nMiss Anna D. Wolf, Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing; Miss\nKatharine Tucker from the University of Pennsylvania; Miss Marion Sheahan,\nDirector of Public Health Nursing of the New York State Department of Health;\nMiss Alma C. Haupt, Executive Secretary of the Subcommittee on Nursing of the\nGovernmental Health and Medical Committee; Miss Marion Randall, Nursing Consult-\nant in the Office of Civilian Defense, and Miss Dunbar, Miss Banfield, and myself\nof the Red Cross Staff.\nYou should have seen with what complete attention and interest each\none in this group listened to all Miss Tracy had to tell us about the work on\nthe Islands. There was very sincere appreciation of it, I can assure you.\nI\nmust not run on any longer, so let me say once more that we are proud\nto think of our Red Cross nurses in Hawaii and to know that when our Government\nis ready to take on the responsibility for this group of nurses, we can be sure\nof your cooperation and loyalty.\nWith all the good wishes in the world.\nSincerely, your friend,\nMary Beard\nDirector, Nursing Service"
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