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    "ocrText": "I\n1-4-33\nMy period of Red Cross service as assistant in Public Health Nursing\nS\nto Miss Helen Scott Hay during her last years work in Europe was one of vivid\nC\nand rich experience - both from the standpoint of professional and other\nC\ncontacts and relationships. Those familiar with conditions in Central Europe\nat that time or during 1920 will not find it difficult to visualize the be-\nwilderment of a new arrival for public hoalth nursing.\nThe general relief program of the American Red Cross was rapidly\ndrawing to a close.(being replaced by a child wolfare and educational one)\nThis necessitated the preparation and organization of native nursing personnel\nto assume the work in connection with the child wolfare stations that had\nbeen established by the local governments with the assistance of the American\nRed Cross. The success of this particular phase of ned Cross work depended\non the wise and efficient leadership of Mims Hay. She, because of her\nthorough knowledge of nursing conditions in these countries, and aldo because\nof her understanding and appreciation of the value of human relationships\ndeserves the credit for the development of this work.\nNiss Hay in addition to her ability as a wise leader and councilor,\npossessed unusual qualities of modesty, tolerance, kindliness and eagerness,\nsupplemented by determination to be just and fair in her dealings with her\ncoworkers. These qualities enabled her to assist new arrivals in making the\nnecessary adjustment to cope with most difficult conditions. However, her\ninfluence because of this was not limited to our own nurses but extended to\nother workers in practically every continental European country. She endeared\nherself to both nurses, doctors and cilitization population, and her outstand-\ning objectives to all these was aimed at higher standards for schools of\nnursing, public health nursing and & strengthening of the bonds of National\nRed Cross Societies.\nELSBETH H. VAUGHAN\nAsst. Dir.; Nursing, Midwestern Branch,A.R.C."
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