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    "ocrText": "COPY\nST. CROIX CHAPTER\nST. CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS\nP.O. Box 74\nAugust 8, 1946\nMiss Olivia T. Peterson\nDirector, Home Nursing\nAmerican Red Cross\nNational Headquarters\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Miss Peterson:\nI am delighted to know that Unit II will soon be ready for use. I don't know\nhow many people will be interested in taking the course here, but I know that a very\nlarge number should be and I will try and create interest for the course.\nI am starting another class in Unit I next week. This time I am teaching a class\nin Frederiksted. I have a class room set up on the first floor at the Lutheran par-\nsonage. It makes an ideal class room, since we have both a kitchen and a bath room.\nIt seems easier to teach home nursing in a home situation.\nI haven't received the certificates or report forms to date, but our mail is very\nslow in coming. We are supposed to get regular mail once a week via Puerto Rico, but\nif the boat has extra cargo the mail is left behind, for example we didn't get our\nsecond class mail at all last week. It may come this week and it may not. A regular\nmail letter is often six weeks in coming.\nOur new Govenor is anxious to establish one training school for nurses here in the\nVirgin Islands. He wrote me for advice on this matter and I suggested that he get in\ntouch with the Nursing Division of the U.S.P.H.S. and get assistance from them. It\nwill take careful study of the whole nursing and hospital situation here to be able to\ngive the advice necessary on such a matter. I think that the U.S.P.H.S. will have\nwell trained nurses who can give the governor much better service than I would be able\nto give.\nThe \"governing board\" of the Graduate Nurses Association of St. Croix had a con-\nference with the governor one evening this week and at that time they begged the\ngovernor to get a director of nurses for their hospitals here in St. Croix and to\nestablish a training school for nurses. He took that opportunity to discuss with\nthem the idea of one training school for all the Virgin Islands. They were agreeable\nwith his thinking on the matter. He assured them that he was working for the im-\nprovement of nursing service for the people here as well as for more monetary compensa-\ntion for the nurses. I thought you would be interested in the above information,\nsince the U.S.P.H.S. people were coming over to your office to talk with you about my\nwork here.\nI shall be glad to have the opportunity to take care of the certificates here\nand will send you a report of each class.\nI appreciated your letter.\nSincerely yours,\n/s/ Nan Cox Hare\nNan Cox Hare\nNursing Field Representative"
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