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L Vose House Boston City Hospital Boston,Mass. VED August lst 1928 Miss Clara D.Noyes, American Red Cooss, AUGH" 1928 Washington,B. .C. mustly Dear Miss Noyes: Your last letter has lain on my desk a very long time as a reminder that any authentic information about the school in Prague should be sent on to you. There has been little information of the sort that would be of interest to you beyond the "Report" of November 1924 of which you received a copy. This is probably because I have written very little to the people there though I have received many friendly and appreciative letters from them. I came back thoroughly tired and cynical about the people and the future of the work; this feeling was natural perhaps after the strain of three and a half years work in such circumstances as existed there but I see now that it was unjust and unreasonable.I think it would have been different if I could have had a good talk with you as soon as I returned. After re- turning I had to face my own problems of finding a job ,getting adjusted to life here, and the various personal responsibilities perplexities which every one must deal with and these left very little time or interest in other things Recently I have been getting in touch with the school again and I am encloding a letter which I have just received from one of our. graduates--Miss Molnarova. She was ene of Miss Masaryk's secretaries when we first went to Prague and as one of the few English speaking ones we frequently came in con- tact with her.She was then about thirty years old, of good family, intelligent, and well educated.She entered the school the year before we left. This is by way of background because I know that she in intelligent enough to really understand what nursing means and one may believe what she says. The letter speaks for itself and I believe it gi ves a truthful picture of what is going on there. I have written to her again asking her to send me a copy of the curriculum which will tell more about subjects and hours of class work.I have also asked her if the plan formul- was ever carried out. ated by Dr.Prochazka for distribution of students during training In addition to the letter from Miss Molnarova I have just had a visit from Miss Pozdilkova who was in our first class to graduate. (She was also in the short course which we gave that first spring ) She was given one of the Rockefellar Foundation scholarships for study of Public fealth work and has been in Montreal during the winter and spring; she is now at the Phila. General Hospital to complete her preparation and will return to Czechoslovakia this fall. 2 of

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