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    "ocrText": "MISS DOROTHY LEDYARD\nMiss Dorothy Ledyard died on May 12th, 1944. She became an enrolled Red Cross\nnurse in January, 1918. She wes a native of Washington State, a graduate of Mills Col-\nlege, California, and in 1917, a graduate of the Children's Hospital, San Francisco.\nDuring the First Worl War she was on duty in France from July, 1918 to March,\n1919, when she went to Germany with the American Expeditionary Force. Feturning to\nthis country, she took & Public Health Hursing Course at the Nestern Reserve University,\nCleveland, later becoming Red Cross Public Health Nursé in Marysville Chapter, California.\nShe resigned to accept an American Red Cross scholarship to attend the International\nPublic Health Nursing Course at King's College, London, England. Thereafter, she served\nunder the American Red Cross in Czecho-Slovakia and later with the League of Red Cross\nSocieties.\nShe was appointed general field representative in the Pacific Area, July, 1922,\nlater becoming assistant director of Nursing there, and in February, 1924, taking over\nalso the directorship of Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. The same year she became\ndirector of Nursing Service continuing the direction of the Home Hygiene activities and\nbeing responsible for Nursing, Public Health Nursing and Home Hygiene activities. She\nresigned from the position of Director, Nursing Service, Pacific Area, Julyk 1927.\nMiss Ledyard \"won universal recognition and affection through the radiance of her\npersonality She was awarded the medal of the Peter Henrick Ling Foundation in recog-\nnition of her work for the children of California. The decoration wes conferred at Los\nAngeles, December 21, 1927 by Dr. Sven Lokrantz, Chairman of the Board of Governors of\nthe Foundation.\nDorothy Ledyard's life exemplified with unusual clarity her belief in the doctrine\nof the brotherhood of man. People of every race, nation and creed, of every degree of\nculture and every state of fortune were numbered emong her friends. She had the gift of\nbeing able to appreciate every man, woman and child of her acquaintence for his qualities,\nand everyone who came in contacte with her felt the tonic of lift of her gallant spirit.\nC"
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