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You will soon receive a letter from the Honorable Normen H. Davis,
Chairman of the American National Red Cross, and with it a token of
the esteem in which the heroic action of every member of the Unit
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is held.
You will be glad to know that a memorial fund to be used as a loun
fund by the nurses of the American Red Cross-Harvard Unit has been
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raised by friends of Ruth Woodman Breckinridge in her memory. To
this fund many individuals have contributed. Not only have individuals
contributed, but the alumne associations of the schools of nursing
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from which the Harvard Unit nurses graduated. A committee has been
formed to see that this fund is used by the nurses of the Unit in any
way which will promote their best professional or personal interests
and give each person to whom a loan is made her best opportunity for
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professional growth. To borrow from the fund will be counted as an
honor paid to the entire Unit. If there is no longer an occasion for
the members of the Unit to use this fund, it is understood that the
money will revert to a more general American Red Cross nurse loan
fund.
On September 16 of last year, Sir Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer,
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Ministry of Health, sent a letter which came to the Dean of the Harvard
Medical School and to the Chairman of the American Red Cross expressing
his deep appreciation of the service which the Unit has rendered to the
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people of Great Britain. I enclose a copy of this letter.
There is little more that I can add at this time except to say that
the spirit which prompted the nurses of the Hárvard Unit, a spirit
which has informed their work throughout the year's service in England
in war-time, has been and will always be a source of inspiration and
strength to me personally. We of the Red Cross are deeply and sincerely
grateful that we have been privileged to have had any share in it.
Sincerely yours,
Mary Beard
Director, Nursing Service
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