, QUARTERLY Burnmum sv
. York! Assuming I do get home at the end of March, my father
wants me to stay home for a couple of months, and then, if pos-
sible, I would like to work at Hyden Hospital as a staff nurse,
, starting in June. V
. I’m leaving here February 28, for Dublin for two weeks. I
Then I go to London to see friends and I’ll probably stop in to see V
i Matron Hawkins at BHMB. Then I’ll make my way slowly down
to Bristol and just "hope that my ship comes in"!
**4 ....
From Katherine Vandergriif in Trujillo, Peru—February, 1965 .
U Everything has been new and interesting this month. I look
one way and see the sun set on the ocean, the other way I see A
these fantastic mountains. I have seen Pete Johnson three times
j now, but haven’t had time to talk much with her. The weather
  is magnificent! We have many fiestas, and enjoy getting together
y with our Peruvian friends. The food is good, but very fattening.
= I live with a family consisting of two sisters and two brothers.
I see all kinds of families——very wealthy and very poor. Pov-
erty seems to be the same wherever you are, but in the "barria—
tas" (slums), you see so much more in a concentrated area. The
barriatas on the outskirts of Lima are the most shocking sight
I have ever seen.
I am Advisor to the Director of the Proposed University
i School of Nursing but there is no Director yet so the Dean of
  the Medical School has me advising him. He will present plans to
i the Dean of the University. The University will then appoint a
§ professor in the Medical School as Director of the Nursing School
  and I will be Advisor to this person. We have no nursing faculty
. and I have to prepare one. Our hospital is the best one around
T but there are not enough graduate nurses and auxiliaries give
$ most of the nursing care. Linen is quite a problem and one ther-
  mometer is all we have on Pediatrics at the present. All in all
I these auxiliaries do quite well. They were trained on the HOPE
. when it was here.
From Marian Adams Frederick in Reading, Pennsylvania
—February, 1965
‘ Elizabeth (her daughter) loves the snow and enjoys sleigh
Q . riding. She looks so cute in her S.O.S. box, which is tied to the