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    "ocrText": "Extract from a letter to Miss Clara D. Noyes, from Miss Josephine S.\nJokaitis, Gary, Indiana, dated October 10th, 1921.\n\"I wonder if there are other workers needed in Poland besides\ngraduate nurses. I ask on account of a friend - Miss Casimire Szymonska,\nwho is with me at present and who has been previously in the A.R.C.\nservice in Poland for nineteen months. I think if you should wish to\nlook up her record you will find it was excellent.\nMiss Szymonska is Polish; she speaks, reads and writes Polish,\nFrench and Russian fluently. She also speaks, reads and writes English.\nShe has had three years of medicine at the University of Parit, her\nstudies were interrupted by the war. She came to America, and later\nprepared herself fortthe war service, having taken the short courses\nYork\nin Nursing, both at the No and the St. Vincents Hospital.\nWhile in Poland with the A.R.C. at the time when we all found\nit necessary to do a number of things, she had nursed at the hospital,\nhad charger of the dispensary in Unit IV, worked in the canteen, also\ndid home visiting in the villages of eastern Poland, giving relief, etc.\nLater she was housekeeper at the headquarters in Warsaw. She has ex-\necutive and initiative ability and her work in every instance was satis-\nfactory.\nShe had returned at the same time I did and hoped to complete\nher medical studies here, but found later that her finances would not\npermit at the time. She is at present doing home nursing for **\nMetropolitan Life Insurance here, under my supervision an\nsatisfaction. She would, however, if there is an\nfuture, like to work in Poland with the A.R.C.\n\""
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