Excerpt from Into Free Poland Via Germany Miss Martha Chickering was leader of the first unit of Polish Grey Samaritans to be sent into Poland. Miss Chickering returned to the United States in November, 1919, after establishing the unit in Warsaw. The Polish Grey Samaritans are the outcome of an idea suggested by Madame Laura G. de Turczynowicz when she came to the Y. W. C. A. in 1917. Madame Turczynowicz urged that Polish girls in America should be given training which would fit them for reconstruction service in Poland. Her suggestion was adopted, and recruits were sought throughout the country. Polish probation courses were given in Cleveland, Trenton, Rochester, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Out of three hundred girls who took the probation courses, ninety qualified for the intensive course in the Polish Grey Samaritan School, equipped and opened on 53rd Street, New York City, October, 1918. Two separate courses of study were planned: Course I included health education and physiology, industrial history, social problems, institutional visiting, systematized housekeeping, bookkeeping, cooking, arts and crafts, English, Polish, gymnasium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.