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    "ocrText": "EXTRACT FROM LETTER TO MISS, ANNA STANLEY, SOUTHVESTEFN DIV. FROM MISS FOX\nMarch 24th, 1920 11891\nFor\n\"Miss Noyes has also dug up another nurse who might be a good one for you to\nhave. She is Miss Eva Louise Smyth, Badge No. 11891; born on the Isle of\nSt. Hemena; preliminary education, 21/2 years high school, 6 months business\ncollege, graduate of the Malden Training School in '98: did private duty\nnursing for a year and served as a doctor's office nurse and assistant in surgical\ncases for 16 years. She then took up school nursing in Pasadena for a short time.\nand later entered the Town and Country Nursing Service in Pennsylvania for 9\nmonths from which she resigned to enter war service. She was with the Harvard\nUnit doing special work for Dr. Cabot. Later she was a member of the ARC Mission\nto Vladivostak: All her recommendations are excellent. Mrs. Parsons, however,\nsays that she is\"not always refined\" and that \"she is resentful of interference\nwith her methods.\" Mrs. Parsons adds, \"she has a great deal of executive ability\nmany good qualities and does valuable work.\" Her training school superintendent\nsays \"work unusually good; conduct, very good; - executive ability - marked:\nwork since graduation, excellent. Dr. Prior says: \"faithful, efficient, very\ncapable, had large experience along lines which do not come into ordinary train-\ning.\" Dr. Nicoll, head of the Harvard Unit, says: \"A woman of a good deal of\npersonality, exceedingly competent; good judgment.\" Our own record of her\nsimply states: \"Always heard her spoken of very highly as a nurse.\"\n\"Miss Holmes knew of her work in France and says she did excellent work and or-\nganized a large dispensary and carried on public health nursing work. Those for\nwhom she worked could not say enough in praise of her personality and work. Miss\nHolmes met her several times', and says that she is a large, heavy woman, honest,\ndirect, capable; an executive; not shirking responsibility; blunt but not un-\nrefined; has force and her work commands respect. \"\n\"Although she has not had any supervised public health nursing experience, nor\nany special training in baby work, Miss Holmes seems to think that her experi-\nence and ability are both so unusual as to make her a valuable supervisor for\nyour work in Missouri. She seems to think that she would fit particularly in the\nMiddle West.\"\nShe has written Miss Noyes that she wants to return to Europe\nbut Miss Noyes is anxious to have her remain in this country. She is enrolled\nin the New England Division but Miss Holmes thinks as I have said, she would fit\nbetter in the Middle West. I presume Miss Ross would not mind your approaching\nher. Her address is 50 Carroll Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, care of Mrs.\nH. Tillson. \"\n302-Ser. ow .\norig"
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