Nurses -- United States -- Interviews
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Kent D. Blad interview
Typescript of an interview of Blad conducted on 19 Nov. 2001. Blad was stationed in Saudi Arabia in 1990 and 1991. He talked about his service during the Persian Gulf War and about the challenges working in a hospital at that time.
A. Elaine Bond interview
Typescript of an interview conducted on November 6, 2001, shortly after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Bond was sent by the Red Cross to Washington, D.C. She tells about her service at the Pentagon and with the people who were injured in the attack on that building. She served there from September 15 to October 5, 2001.
Beth Smith Edvalson interview
Typescript probably taken from an interview. Edvalson talked about her nursing education at the University of Utah starting in 1943. She married Frederick M. Edvalson on 4 July 1945 after she completed her training.
Lillie Jacobs Fitzsimons interviews
Typescript of an interview. Fitzsimons was sent to Australia and New Guinea in 1943. After 18 months, she went to a hospital in the Philippines. She talked about the challenges of nursing in a tropical area. She treated both American soldiers and Japanese captives.
Erma Louise Hirschi Gantenbein interview
Typed copy of an interview. Gantenbein was born in Idaho in 1921, graduated from the L.D.S. Hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1942, and served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. She served in hospitals in Great Britain and France. She married Earl Gantenbein in 1946.
Edith Maurine Edwards Garrard interview
Typed interview. Garrard was a cadet nurse starting in 1943. She graduated from the LDS Hospital 3 year diploma program in 1946. She never served as a nurse for the military during World War II. She talked about her training and education.
Ruth Lofthouse Bingham interview
Typed interview. "Sister Bingham did not remember many of the experiences she had while she served as a nurse at war. With the help of her son, Byron, and through asking her many questions, she was able to remember a small amount of her service. Her main memory was that 'I took care of patients.'" She was born in Brigham City, Utah, and married Fred Alvin Bingham in 1947.
Paul Blad interview and correspondence
Typescript of an interview conducted on 8 Oct. 2001 and typed copies of correspondence from 1991. Blad talks about his experiences in Saudi Arabia in a hospital in 1990 and 1991. The letters were sent to and from Blad in 1991.
Oral history interview with Stanislawa Habel
Collection contains three cassette tapes with an oral history of Stanislawa Habel conducted by Dennis Campbell. Materials document her life story as she lived in Poland in the 1940s to 1970s as well as her immigration to Canada before finally moving to Utah in 1991. The materials discuss Stanislawa Habel's childhood in Poland, her family life, her conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and her career as a nurse. Materials dated August 2001.