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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, April-September 1945

1945-04-30 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

Belgium
April 30, 1945
Dear Mother,
I'm pretty well rested up from my trip by now and am finding the work very easy and not at all high-pressured compared to what we were doing. The assistant Field Director and head recreation worker are both quite new to the work, this being their first hospital, so they seem to be delighted with my sage advice and my command of French. You see, our janitors don't speak English, and none of the girls speak French, so that puts me in a favored position.
I'm rooming with the staff aide, Naomi Nelson, who is newly over, after twenty months in the South Pacific. She was to have joined Juliette Lippe's bunch in New Guinea when she became ill. She went home for a leave and then decided she couldn't stand the lack of activity & came over here. Another roommate, Phyllis Gordon, is the secretary of the old unit, which was here during the days of excitement. She is being assigned to one of the armies in Germany and the new secretary, who came today turns out to be Mary Esther Weikel, who came from England when I did.
The countryside is lovely, but since

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Belgium April 30, 1945 Dear Mother, I'm pretty well rested up from my trip by now and am finding the work very easy and not at all high-pressured compared to what we were doing. The assistant Field Director and head recreation worker are both quite new to the work, this being their first hospital, so they seem to be delighted with my sage advice and my command of French. You see, our janitors don't speak English, and none of the girls speak French, so that puts me in a favored position. I'm rooming with the staff aide, Naomi Nelson, who is newly over, after twenty months in the South Pacific. She was to have joined Juliette Lippe's bunch in New Guinea when she became ill. She went home for a leave and then decided she couldn't stand the lack of activity & came over here. Another roommate, Phyllis Gordon, is the secretary of the old unit, which was here during the days of excitement. She is being assigned to one of the armies in Germany and the new secretary, who came today turns out to be Mary Esther Weikel, who came from England when I did. The countryside is lovely, but since