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- Marion Kern Kennedy talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Kennedy says that she did basic training and advanced military training between May 1942 and January 1943, was first sent to Bombay, India and later north to the Himalayas where her unit took over a muddy hospital cut from the jungle in Assam, India. She describes life in the camp, which was set up to support troops who were trying to open the Burma Road, the food, her quarters, the bugs, tropical diseases, her social life, and using slit trenches. Kennedy says that she was sent home in 1945 and was discharged from the military on new years day, 1946. In 1953, she says that she returned to the service and remained on active duty for the next 18 years. Kennedy is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart assisted by Carol A. Habgood.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Marion Steinhilber talks about her 27 year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, including her service overseas in World War II. Steinhiber says that she went on active duty in April 1944 and was sent to Atlantic City for basic training and that her first duty station was at Halloran General Hospital on Staten Island. Steinhilber says that she first thought that she would be stationed in Europe, but soon found herself bound for India, by way of Newfoundland, Casablanca, Cairo, and Abadan Island. After landing in Calcutta, she says that she joined the 142nd General Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan and then later the 20th General Hospital in Ledo, India. She talks about life in Ledo, including surviving monsoons, her quarters, the food, the pests, the quality of life for nurses and treating American and Chinese troops. Steinhilber says she returned to the States soon after V-J Day and was "separated" from the Army in May 1946, but was never "discharged". Steinhilber also says that she later found out that she was considered to be on "inactive reserve" and was called up for active duty in 1951 as the Korean War heated up. Steinhilber is interviewed by Ruth Stewart assisted by Carol Habgood.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anne Noreen Bauer talks about her twenty-eight year career as an United States Army nurse. Bauer talks about enlisting in August 1942 at the age of twenty-seven, her training, early assignments at Fort Benjamin Harrison where she became head nurse and finally shipping out to Bombay, India on her way to Karachi with the 159th Station Hospital. Bauer remembers the voyage to India, having dinner with Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten, working with British nurses, staff and civilians, taking over a convent to use as a hospital, and the many the diseases and injuries she treated. She also discusses her many post-war assignments which took her around the world and especially her efforts to establish hospitals in Vietnam and provide the local population with medical assistance. Bauer is interviewed by Jane Fore.
- Date Issued:
- 1985-06-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Eighty-four year old retired Army Colonel Esther Jane McNeil discusses her long career in the U.S. Army. McNeil says that she grew up in rural Pennsylvania, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1940, enlisted in the Nurse Corps in 1943 and was first stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona. She says that despite some health problems, she was finally sent overseas to India and was made head of the operating room at the 20th General Hospital in Ledo, India. McNeil was on leave in Darjeeling when she received orders to prepare for the invasion of Japan, but says that the war ended before her unit had even made it to the Philippines. After the war, McNeil says that she joined the Army Reserves and then went back to active duty during the Korean War. She also discusses the various positions she held until her retirement in 1971. McNeil is interviewed by Doris Cobb.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Marguerite Noutary, the daughter of immigrant parents, talks about her childhood and her career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, including her service in World War II. Noutary talks about joining the Army in 1940 and being sent to the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations after the start of the war. She describes her duty stations in Calcutta and Myitkyina, Burma, the dust of the Burma Road, the food, the climate, rampant malaria, flying over "The Hump" into China in a transport plane with Japanese prisoners, the start of the Chinese civil war after the Japanese surrender and treating American POWs who were survivors of the Doolittle Raid. Noutary says that she decided to join the Army Reserve after leaving the regular Army and was called-up for active duty in October 1961 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Vivian Peterson introduces and concludes the recording.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-03-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- In this installment of "Welcome to Kalamazoo" Dr. Willis Dunbar speaks with Dr. John Everton, the new President of Kalamazoo College. Everton gives an overview of his work experience, highlighting his time at Grinnell College as a professor and dean. He also talks about his two years in India directing the Relief and Rehabilitation program and the role of the small liberal arts college in the future of education.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bush signs H.R. 7081, the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act. Bush praises the efforts of many who brought this agreement to fruition. Bush says, "This legislation will enhance our cooperation in using nuclear energy to power our economies; it will help us work together even more closely to reduce the danger of nuclear proliferation across the world." The President states that in signing this act the two nations are telling the rest of the world that all nations which follow democracy can find a friend in the United States. Bush says that the relationship between the United States and India has never been "more vibrant and more hopeful." Bush then signs the act.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Cara Cilano, chair of the Department of English at Michigan State University, delivers a presentation on the mid-to late Twentieth Century history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in order to frame the discussion about the novel "A golden age," by Tahmina Anam. Cilano discusses the political situation surrounding the British withdrawal from India in 1948 and the repercussions of the division of India. Cilano particularly highlights Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), which serves as the backdrop for the novel. Part of the Muslim Journeys Book Club series. MSU librarian Deborah Margolis convenes the event and introduces Cilano.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Nightingale was concerned with the possibility that the Public Works will lose funds and that the poorest, with no voice, wwould suffer without adequate water and irrigation. She requested a meeting with Lt. Gen. Fife, asking if he would do so the following Monday at 5pm, as she was unable to reschedule other events on her calendar.
- Notes:
- This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library System.
- Date Issued:
- 1879-06-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Florence Nightingale Collection
- Description:
- Nightingale takes time to thank Lt. Gen. Fife for three letter written to her which contained information about ongoing events in India, as well as articles Nightingale needed to continue her work there. She explained to Lt. Gen. Fife that she had been ill and overworked and that was her reason for not replying sooner to his letters. She also shared that several of her letters on the topic of irrigation and water transit were published in “Illustrated News” and that she would send them to Lt. Gen. Fife if he had an interest in reading them.
- Notes:
- This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library System.
- Date Issued:
- 1879-06-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Florence Nightingale Collection