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- Description:
- Helen McPherson Reynolds talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. She says that after her induction in October 1942 and receiving training as an anesthesiologist, she joined the 232nd General Hospital unit and shipped overseas in February 1945. Reynolds says that she first landed in Saipan and was later sent to Iwo Jima to help prepare for the expected invasion of Japan. She says that she was one of the first ten nurses on Iwo Jima and describes the tent hospital in which she worked, the heat and the casualties she was treating from the battle on Okinawa. She says actor Tyrone Power piloted the plane which transported the nurses to Iwo Jima. Reynolds says that she was discharged from the Army in January 1946.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-05-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Estelle M. Davis explains why she enlisted as a Red Cross nurse during World War One and describes her experiences. She reminisces about being a public health nurse in Jersey City, her family's reaction to her enlistment, and being shipped across the Atlantic to Calais with 350 fellow nurses. Davis recounts the awful food and the terrible conditions under which staff had to perform surgery, while serving only 50 miles from the front at Verdun. She says that she met her future husband when treating him for a shrapnel wound at her aid station. Davis is interviewed by Lois Collet.
- Date Issued:
- 1982-10-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect and persevere the histories of its members and then talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger who served in the American Red Cross during World War II. Reading from local documents and an interview with Stutzenberger, Harrison talks about Stutzenberger first working in hospitals in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations and then transferring to club work at the Bengal Air Depot in India. According to Harrison, Stutzenberger also served in Guam and Saipan and with the occupation forces in Japan. Harrison also recounts Stutzenberger's retirement and later death from lung cancer.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Mildred Blandford talks about her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Blandford, who served from August 1944 to November 1945, says that she joined the Red Cross for overseas adventure and spent most of her time stationed at the 194th General Hospital in Paris. She says that she was quartered in a Parisian hotel with maid service, but that service in the hospital was no picnic and meant leaving her secretarial duties often to help care for the onslaught of wounded soldiers. After VE Day, Blandford says that she volunteered for duty in the Pacific and was sent to Okinawa where she found herself living in a tent rather than luxury hotel. She talks about her daily tasks and again helping out with wounded G.I.s. and describes two typhoons that hit the island and how staff tried to protect the patients in the tent hospital from the storm. At war's end, Blandford says that she returned to Louisville to work, but later went back to Paris for school and to work for NATO. Blandford is interviewed by Dorothy M. Harrison.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Date Issued:
- 1975-10-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Lincoln Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children and Youth, at 401 West Greenlawn Avenue, was associated with the Ingham County Medical Center (later McLaren Hospital). Photos are a part of the "Visual Views of the Elementary Schools in the Lansing School District" project of the Lansing Area Community Resources Workshop in cooperation with Michigan State University. It was compiled by Priscilla L. Shaver who was a teacher at Lewton School. The director was Frances B. Schneider. Each included school has a photo of the school building and playground. The album was created to aid students who were being moved to new schools in the hopes that they could use it to know where their new school was and what it would look like. Priscilla Shaver attended the 1971 Lansing Area Community Resources Workshop to aid in assembling this project.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1215 E. Michigan Ave.
- Date Created:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- A small collection of photographs from a scrapbook that was kept while the donor's husband was a resident/patient of the Ingham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium (later Ingham Chest Hospital, then McLaren Hospital), 1947 to 1950. A letter from the donor (with identifiable information redacted): "Recently I came across the enclosed small photos of what used to be called the Ingham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, the building now vastly changed and currently called McLaren Hospital. My husband....spent four years there with TB from 1947 to 1950. Four years is kind of inconceivable in today's world, but in the '40s, what we called the "wonder drugs" were just being developed and beginning to be used. I'm not sure where the patient's booklet is that [husband] was given when he entered the hospital, having been diagnosed when he entered then Michigan State College on the GI Bill. At that time the Health Department required a skin test for TB, an airborne disease, for admission or employment at schools, camps, universities, etc. If a person has had TB, the blood test will continue to show positive for their lifetime. [Husband]'s diagnosis must have come from a subsequent chest X-ray. TB diagnosis meant an individual wasn't really given a choice about hospitalization. The main treatment at the time was bed rest, giving the body a chance to heal itself, or not. New patients lay flat on their backs, having to slowly earn privileges like being allowed to raise their heads, then to sit up, etc. After two years, [husband] was told his disease was "arrested," there being no cure as yet. He spent two months with his brother, but then a sputum test came back positive. On his his return to the hospital, he said Dr. Stringer expressed surprise that as a GI he'd not been given streptomycin. They started him on it, but it didn't seem to help. So he agreed to surgery which removed the lower lobe of his left lung where the infection was. All told, he spent 4 years in the hospital, another year at home recuperating before he was able to return to MSC to continue his education. In the early years of our marriage, living in the barracks apartments at now MSU, he reported back to the hospital monthly for sputum checks to make sure the disease did not recur. It did so for many of the people who shared his hospital experience, and a great many died of TB. As incidence of TB began to drop, [husband] told me that he learned that to keep the beds filled, the now-named Ingham Chest Hospital began taking in patients from Skid Row in Detroit. Eventually, it became a general hospital.... The photos, which were stored all together in a couple of envelopes, would have been taken in the years between 1947 and 1950. Several show the building, some of the construction that must have happened in those years. Some are of patients, some of staff, some of entertainment provided by probably some staff and some outside groups. Most of these came from an album, old enough that the glue (probably rubber cement) had dried and the individual photos were floating loose....Of course, none were labeled..." The photographer or photographers are also not identified. Due to identifiable patient information protected under HIPAA regulations, a portion of these photographs are restricted from access. Those that are not restricted have been digitized and are linked to this record. Contact the library for more information.
- Date Created:
- [1947 TO 1950]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ingham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium
- Description:
- Located at 1215 E. Michigan Ave.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1215 E. Michigan Ave.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
