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Interviews

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Kent D. Blad interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341353]
Identifier: MSS 2629
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2001

A. Elaine Bond interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341346]
Identifier: MSS 2630
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2001

Beth Smith Edvalson interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341478]
Identifier: MSS 2633
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: approximately 2002

Lillie Jacobs Fitzsimons interviews

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341452]
Identifier: MSS 2635
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: approximately 2001

Erma Louise Hirschi Gantenbein interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341445]
Identifier: MSS 2636
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: approximately 2001

Edith Maurine Edwards Garrard interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341437]
Identifier: MSS 2638
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2002

Rosmary Clara Klatt Harms interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341411]
Identifier: MSS 2644
Scope and Contents Typed interview dated 9 May 2002. Harms was drafted into the Red Cross in 1940-1 and served in a field hospital in Russia in 1942. In this interview, she talked about her training and the conditions she faced in Russia. She was captured by the Americans at the end of the war and imprisoned with the men until she was recognized as being a woman. She met her husband, George Harms, at that time, and they were married in August of 1947. They later lived in the United States. She joined the...
Dates: 2002

Ruth Lofthouse Bingham interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341379]
Identifier: MSS 2626
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2002

Paul Blad interview and correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341361]
Identifier: MSS 2627
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991-2001

Recollections of an Army nurse

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336833]
Identifier: MSS 2687
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview conducted on 6 Nov. 2001. Shortly after the attacks on 11 Sept. 2001, Bond was sent by the Red Cross to Washington, DC. She told about her service at the Pentagon and with the people who were injured in the attack on that building. She served there from 15 Sept. to 5 Oct. 2001.

Dates: 2000