T HE American Women's Hospitals Training School for Nurses was opened in Salonica, Greece, in January, 1923, and was reorganized in Kokkinia, Piraeus, in November, 1927. It held its first commencement exercises in May, 1929, graduating eight nurses at that time. Dr. Parmelee started the training school in Salonica in 1923, at a time when the organization could not see its way clear to send over a fully qualified nurse to do the work. Having herself started out toward nursing as a career, until Fate directed her into the medical profession, her keen interest in, and her knowledge of, the need for well trained nurses has never waned, and so she held on tenaciously against all odds until the school was reorganized in Kokkinia in 1927. There are many such medical missionaries in the Near and Far East, who guide and direct young women into nursing channels, step by step in a slow and tedious fashion, until they