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My dear Miss Shields:
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I am writing to say that we are very happy to have you in our list of
active Red Cross nurses serving our Country away from the mainland of the United
States. The adventure on which you are embarking involves many governmental
agencies, and the Red Cross, because it is only semi-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 understand, perhaps, that in these war-time assignments it is
almost always true that there are periods of very geeat 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 report-
ing 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; Miss Mary M. Roberts, Editor of the American Journal of
Nursing; 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 Shehan,
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 Con-
sultant in the Office of Civilian Defense; and Miss Dunbar, Miss Banfield, and
myself of the Red Croxs 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 dust not run on any longer, so let me say once more that we are proud
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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 cooperation and loyalty.
With all the good wishes in the world.
Sincerely, your friend,
Mary Beard
MB:MR
Director, Nursing Service
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