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    "ocrText": "American Red Cross Chapter\nCopy of a letter under date of April 20, 1923.\nMrs. L. E. Cretter\nVisiting Nurse Association\nDetroit, Michigan.\nMy dear Mrs. Gretter:-\nAs you doubtless know, a very important meeting\nprevented my attendint the dinner to the Visiting Nurses the other\nnight, and this taking part in the public testimonial to your valu-\nable services to the community.\nOthers may know and be able to speak of what you have done\nthrough the leadership you have given the nursing organization, and\nin all they say I share, but I think no one can have been more acute-\nly sensible to that beautiful spirit of service which flows our from\nyour womanhood and motherhood into the channels which enrich our com-\nmunity life. You possess that rare gift of the great heart and the\ncool head, the magnificient porive power of enthusiasm, and the rare\nability to work with and through other people.\nThrough all the stressful months, and even years, when as ser-\nvantsof the Red Cross we worked together, I was conscious of your\nfirm and competene presence and knew that in that field which you comm\nmanded, we should never be found wanting. Always your connsel on the\nBoard was wise, serene and fully informed, so that you were of inesti-\nmable value.\nPerhaps I c uld not have said any of these things, had I attended\nthe dinner, but I want you to know that the desireto express them\nmingles with my regret at not having been beside you on this occasion,\nas I am told I was in honor placed.\nIn this regret, believe me,\nSincerely your friend\n(Signed) Gustavus D. Po\nNote- Mr. Pope was Chairman of Red Cross Chapter"
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