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    "ocrText": "6/20/42 Given to Miss Louthan to take to Miss Peterson in Hawaii\nJune 19, 1942\n1\nMiss Genevieve Leprestre,\nc/o Miss Agnes Peterson,\nHawaii Chapter, A.R.C.,\nAcademy of Arts,\nHonolulu, Hawaii.\nMy dear Miss Leprestre:\nWe have been so happy to hear directly from Miss Tracy all\nabout the Hawaii Unit and I must add that we have also been very proud\nof the way each one of you has met the many difficulties of the situation\nin which you found yourselves.\nThe many government agencies involved in this project has made\nit very difficult for us to give you a clear picture of what was happening\nor might happen. Such uncertainty seems to me to be the hardest sort of\nsituation to put up with and I know from what Miss Tracy has said that you\nproved yourselves to be thoroughly good soldiers. We know that your\ngoing to the Islands was so very necessary and that the part you are playing\nin this great struggle is one of which you can be truly proud. Sometimes\nI think it is harder not to be very busy than it is to be much too busy,\nand perhaps you are meeting both of these situations.\nMiss Tracy came to Washington and, after meeting and reporting\nto our group here at Headquarters, went to New York. There a meeting was\ncalled to which the following came : Miss Alta E. Dines, of the Community\nService Society of New York; Miss Mary M. Roberts, Editor of the American\nJournal of Nursing; Miss Julia C. Stimson, President of the American Nurses'\nAssociation; Miss Anna D. Wolf, Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School\nof Nursing; Miss Katharine Tucker, from the University of Pennsylvania;\nMiss Marion Sheahan, Director of Public Health Nursing of the New York State\nDepartment of Health; Miss Alma C. Haupt, Executive Secretary of the Sub-\ncommittee on Nursing of the governmental Health and Medical Committee; Miss\nMarion Randall, Nursing Consultant in the Office of Civilian Defense; and\nMiss Dunbar, Miss Banfield and myself of the Red Cross staff.\nYou should have seen with what complete attention and interest\neach one in this group listened to all Miss Tracy had to tell us about you\nand the work on the Islands. There was very sincere appreciation of it,\nI can assure you.\nWe have been delighted to get your little notes saying that\nthe surprise packages of bon voyage presents pleased you. Miss Christine\nNuno, who sends them out from the New York office, takes the greatest pains"
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