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- In this installment of "Welcome to Kalamazoo," Dr. Willis Dunbar interviews Dr. Gustave Utke, the President of the Midwest Humane Conference. Utke describes the general mission and workings of Humane Societies around America, focusing on the educational outreach designed to teach children how to care for pets. Utke also describes the "Animal lending library" in Milwaukee and discusses the benefits of mutts compared to pure breed dogs.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Rita Geis talks about her thirty year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps beginning just before the U.S. entry into World War Two and continuing through the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Geis recalls deploying with the 106th General Hospital to Japan in 1965 to treat casualties coming in from the battlefields in Vietnam. She says that the hospital was full of injured U.S. soldiers during the brutal Tet Offensive of 1968. Geis also talks about some of her retirement activities including being Commander of Women's Metropolitan Post 206 in Denver, the only women's post in Colorado, as well as being active in the Women's Overseas Service League. Geis is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-06-17T00:00:00Z
- 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 interviews Dr. Gustave Utke, the President of the Midwest Humane Conference. Utke describes the general mission and workings of Humane Societies around America, focusing on the educational outreach designed to teach children how to care for pets. Utke also describes the "Animal lending library" in Milwaukee and discusses the benefits of mutts compared to pure breed dogs.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection