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    "ocrText": "Extract taken from letter from Miss Rachel Torrance to Miss Noyes, 2/11/25.\n\" This is my proposition about representation from here at the Helsingfors meet-\nThat Miss Goff and Miss Sendova go, anyway Miss Goff, and that I stay here\nuntil her return and then retire.\nFirst, I should answer your proposition about one of us\ngoing from here about the first of july and the other the first of\nJanuary.\nIf the appropriation cannot support more, and\ncannot be renewed, I think that is the best plan - i.e. it is better\nthan having both American nurses leave at one time so soon. The\nbest thing for the school is to have American nurses stay on here\nfor at least two years after this fall.\nEveryone at all\ninterested in it says the same thing- even the Red Cross people,\nwho, even while saying it do nothing to make it possible or probable\nThe person who should stay on is Miss Goff.\nShe is a specialist\nin this work it is plain to be seen while I am not.\nI have\nlearned a lot during my stay here, and feel that something has\nreally been accomplished, but not near so much as would have been\nhad Miss Goff been here in the first place Miss LeGros was faithful\nin her work and did a lot in the hospital end of the program, but she\nis not at all a\"trainer\", which fact she herself acknowledges.\nMiss Goff's ability in training school work is superior to mine, and\nshe is ready to stay on for a longer period.\nAlso I feel\nvery tired - not so much tired as a feeling that I have run out of\nenergy.\nWhen I first came and tried to get things done\nquickly and in order, and insisted on dispatch, I was told by\nseveral of the Redd Cross personnel to learn a little Ordentalski -\nto practice a little Orientalski, but I scorned such a thing and\nsaid that that was the last thing I wanted to learn, but when I\ncompare my energy and practice of order and routine with that of Miss Goff I am\ngreatly troubled for fear that I have unwittingly learned it after all.\nI recommend without reserve Miss Goff for the post of Director of\nthis school. Her temperment is very different from mine, but\nwe have the same ideals as to the finished product of a School for\nNurses, so that I believe the work would not suffer by the change, on that\nscore. I have made mention of this probability in July to the people in\nthe school Committee - in fact I wrote an official letter to the\nPresident telling these , your last instructions. The women\nin that Committee and in the Womens Committee who are really beginning\nto show live interest are very much disturbed about any change and\nnaturally urge me to stay but I tell you frankly, I think if just\none stays, it should be Miss Goff for the best good of the school -\nshe is the better one,\nThis I say without reference to my\npersonal desire to get home, but that is an added argument. \"\nsee letter filed 502. Bulgarian School.(Corres)"
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