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June 19,1942
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My dear Miss McNutt:
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I am writing to say that we are very happy to have you in our list of active
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Red Cross nurses serving our country away from the mainland of the United States. The
adventure on which you are embarking involves many goveramental agencies, and the Red
Cross, because it is only seni-governmental, is able to help launch it and get it well
started. It is, as you know, to be turned over to the United States Government at a
given time. There can be no doubt that your mission is a very important one and I know
that you can be truly proud to have volunteered your services to go.
You will underetand, perhaps, that in these war-time assignments it is al-
most always true that there are periods of very great activity for the nursing group
and at other periods such a group is almost completely idle. It is harder to be
patient at the idle times than at the busy ones, but if we recognize such periods as
conditions involved in war, I think we can more easily accept them.
As you perhaps know, Miss Margaret Tracy, Director of the School of Nursing
at the University of California, went to Hawaii with the first group of your Unit.
When she returned she came to Washington and after meeting and reporting to our group
here at Headquarters, she went to New York. There a meeting was called to which the
following came: Miss Alta E. Dines, of the Community Service Society of New York;
Viss Mary M. Roberts, Editor of the American Journal of wursing; Miss Julia C.
Stimson, President of the American Nurses* Association; Miss Anna D. Wolf, Director
of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing; Miss Katharine Tucker from the
University of Pennsylvania; Miss Marion Sheahan, Director of Public Health Nursing
of the New York State Department of Health; Miss Alma C. Haupt, Executive Secretary
of the Subcommittee on Nursing of the Governmental Health and Medical Committee; Miss
Marion Randall, Nursing Consultant in the office of Civilian Defense; and Miss Dunbar,
Miss Banfield, and myself of the Red Cross Staff.
You should have seen with what complete attention and interest each one in
this group listened to all Miss Tracy had to tell us about the work on the Islands.
There was very sincere appreciation of it, I can assure you.
I must not run on any longer, so let me say once more that we are proud to
think of our Red Cross nurses in Hawaii and to know that when our Government is ready
to take on the responsibility for this group of nurses, we can be sure of your co-
operation and loyalty.
Wibh all the good wishes in the world.
Sincerely, your friend
Mary Beard
5
Director, Nursing Service
8
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