Interview of retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Therese Slone-Baker on her work with the Veterans Administration Voluntary Services Committee and her efforts to start a program to serve the hospitalized women veterans at a veteran hospital in San Antonio, TX

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Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Therese Slone-Baker talks about her work with the Veterans Administration Voluntary Services Committee and her efforts to start a program in the 1980s to recognize the needs of hospitalized women veterans at the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital in San Antonio, TX. Slone-Baker explains why she started the project and how she persuaded the Women's Overseas Service League chapter in San Antonio to take on the task of visiting the women veterans. She says that interest in improving conditions for women veterans grew and that her project was finally taken to the national level. Slone-Baker also talks being inducted into the San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame in recognition for her work with veterans. Slone-Baker is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.

Date Issued:

2005-03-26T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Texas, San Antonio, Texas, and San Antonio

Subject Topic:

Women veterans, Women veterans, Hospital care, Women veterans, and Services for

Subject Name:

Slone-Baker, Therese and 1917-2013

Subject Genre:

Interviews and Interviews

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5570w