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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, April-December 1943

1943-12-01 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

party of the Congregational guild. We had a nice supper. We played games. I came home early because I thought my throat would be better tomorrow if I had plenty of rest. The conferring today was about our day care centers for working mother's children. I wish you were here to supply ideas and give moral support. The undertaking is so big in the expanded form the Federal people think we should make it. If we open centers and have no children, the community will yell. If we do not have the centers, and pressure for women to work continues as it has, we are in Dutch with employers. And the Federal people. Details are endless, personalities have to be ironed out all the time, and I can foresee a very busy time for all of us. One big item today, the state examining board did notify me I passed the senior child welfare exams. So that is something I won't have to wonder about any more. I can hold myself on the register as long as I work steadily without taking any more exams. It should mean a raise too as I've not been working as a senior worker, and that is the only rating I have now. (I was on a temporary permit until the exams were given). But whether I get a raise or not, it is a relief not to have to take more exams, and a pleasure to think I plowed through those 180 questions that were so long there were only three per typed page on lots of the pages.

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party of the Congregational guild. We had a nice supper. We played games. I came home early because I thought my throat would be better tomorrow if I had plenty of rest. The conferring today was about our day care centers for working mother's children. I wish you were here to supply ideas and give moral support. The undertaking is so big in the expanded form the Federal people think we should make it. If we open centers and have no children, the community will yell. If we do not have the centers, and pressure for women to work continues as it has, we are in Dutch with employers. And the Federal people. Details are endless, personalities have to be ironed out all the time, and I can foresee a very busy time for all of us. One big item today, the state examining board did notify me I passed the senior child welfare exams. So that is something I won't have to wonder about any more. I can hold myself on the register as long as I work steadily without taking any more exams. It should mean a raise too as I've not been working as a senior worker, and that is the only rating I have now. (I was on a temporary permit until the exams were given). But whether I get a raise or not, it is a relief not to have to take more exams, and a pleasure to think I plowed through those 180 questions that were so long there were only three per typed page on lots of the pages.