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Title: Interview of retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeannette Marshall on her twenty years of military service
Creator: Marshall, Jeannette, 1915-2007
Date: 2004-02-16
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeannette Marshall talks about her twenty years of military service. Marshall says she was born in Sheridan, Wyoming, educated in California, and received her nurse's training at St. Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles. Marshall says that a failed marriage prompted her to enlist in the Air Force in September 1952 and after her training, was sent to Japan as a flight nurse to help in the evacuation of wounded from battlefields in Korea....
Show moreRetired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeannette Marshall talks about her twenty years of military service. Marshall says she was born in Sheridan, Wyoming, educated in California, and received her nurse's training at St. Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles. Marshall says that a failed marriage prompted her to enlist in the Air Force in September 1952 and after her training, was sent to Japan as a flight nurse to help in the evacuation of wounded from battlefields in Korea. Marshall says that in 1955 her flight crew was part of the effort to evacuate French casualties from Vietnam to the Philippines and that 104 wounded soldiers, mostly amputees, were transported in one flight. She says that she was later stationed in Germany and England and at various U.S. bases and eventually retired in San Antonio in 1972. Marshall is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Interview of Marian Weller on her career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and service during the Vietnam War
Creator: Weller, Marian E. (Marian Elizabeth), 1946-
Date: 2004-02-17
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: In a poignant oral history interview, Marian Weller talks about her long career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and her service during the Vietnam War. Weller says that she comes from a family with a long military history and that she even graduated as a second lieutenant from the Army Student Nurse program in 1967. She talks about her basic training at Fort Sam Houston, working at Walter Reed Hospital in 1968 and being shipped to Vietnam in February 1969 to join the 95th Evac Hospital, across...
Show moreIn a poignant oral history interview, Marian Weller talks about her long career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and her service during the Vietnam War. Weller says that she comes from a family with a long military history and that she even graduated as a second lieutenant from the Army Student Nurse program in 1967. She talks about her basic training at Fort Sam Houston, working at Walter Reed Hospital in 1968 and being shipped to Vietnam in February 1969 to join the 95th Evac Hospital, across the harbor from Da Nang. She talks about her duty in the "yuck unit" working with patients with disfiguring battlefield injuries, the civilian casualties brought in by the choppers, life on the base, being in a helicopter crash, atrocities committed by the Viet Cong, the corruption which was part of daily life, trying to clean blood off concrete floors and the relentless tropical heat and humidity. She says that she rotated back to the States in 1970 and served at hospitals in Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas and the Philippines and finally retired as a major in 2002. Weller talks candidly about developing medical and emotional problems in the years after her Vietnam service and says that she was finally diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after a visit to the Vietnam War Memorial sent her into a three day crying jag. Weller is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Interview of retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Alice Pfeiffer on her career as an Air Force nurse and administrator
Creator: Pfeiffer, Alice, 1917-2006
Date: 2004-02-17
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Alice Pfeiffer talks about her youth in Illinois, her education and her career as an Air Force nurse and administrator. Pfeiffer says that she enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1941, talks about her first duty stations and says that after additional training at Fort Bragg, was sent to England aboard the Queen Mary. Pfeiffer says that she was assigned to the 68th General Hospital which was set up in a cow pasture, worked 12 hour shifts, and lived in very,...
Show moreRetired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Alice Pfeiffer talks about her youth in Illinois, her education and her career as an Air Force nurse and administrator. Pfeiffer says that she enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1941, talks about her first duty stations and says that after additional training at Fort Bragg, was sent to England aboard the Queen Mary. Pfeiffer says that she was assigned to the 68th General Hospital which was set up in a cow pasture, worked 12 hour shifts, and lived in very, very basic conditions. After D-Day, Pfeiffer says that she worked in a hospital in France, was finally sent back to the U.S. after the war and was discharged in 1946. She says that she enlisted in the Air Force in 1949, served at various bases and hospitals around the world and retired in 1964 while stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB. Ends abruptly. Pfeiffer is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Interview of Linden N. Anderson on her long career in the American Red Cross including service in WWII and the Korean and Vietnam wars
Creator: Anderson, Linden N. (Linden Norine), 1908-2008
Date: 2004-02-18
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Linden N. Anderson talks about her long career in the American Red Cross which included service in World War Two and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Anderson reminisces about her childhood, attending the University of Texas, teaching in Texas public schools and finally joining the Red Cross in 1943. Anderson talks about her training with the "doughnut dollies", being stationed at the 91st General Hospital, shipping out to England and being stationed in Wales until her unit could be moved to a...
Show moreLinden N. Anderson talks about her long career in the American Red Cross which included service in World War Two and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Anderson reminisces about her childhood, attending the University of Texas, teaching in Texas public schools and finally joining the Red Cross in 1943. Anderson talks about her training with the "doughnut dollies", being stationed at the 91st General Hospital, shipping out to England and being stationed in Wales until her unit could be moved to a hospital at Oxford. Anderson says that her job was to provide entertainment for the wounded and build morale and that she often took patients on bus tours throughout England. After V-E Day, Anderson says that she returned to the States, but was soon recalled by the ARC to serve in Japan and in Korea during that conflict. Anderson also says that she remained in the Red Cross for twenty-years after Korea, discusses her duty stations in Libya, Germany, Korea and the U.S., describes treating casualties in Japan during the Vietnam war and finishing her career in Corpus Christi in 1973. Anderson is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Interview of retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen O'Neal on her service as a nurse in the regualr U.S. Army and Army Reserve
Creator: O'Neal, Kathleen Ann Rheinlander
Date: 2004-02-18
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Rheinlander O'Neal says that she decided to become an Army nurse while in high school, graduated from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing in 1970 and went straight into basic training as a staff nurse at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. She talks about her various duty stations and assignments and says that she resigned from active duty in 1975, joined the Army Reserves and worked at the 94th General Hospital unit in San Antonio, Texas. O'Neal...
Show moreRetired Army Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Rheinlander O'Neal says that she decided to become an Army nurse while in high school, graduated from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing in 1970 and went straight into basic training as a staff nurse at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. She talks about her various duty stations and assignments and says that she resigned from active duty in 1975, joined the Army Reserves and worked at the 94th General Hospital unit in San Antonio, Texas. O'Neal describes her activities as a reserve officer and says that in January 1991 she was recalled to active duty for service in Operation Desert Storm, sent to a hospital in Germany and finally returned to the U.S. in April of that year and retired from the service shortly after. She says the military gave her a solid career, an extensive network of friends, and a good education. O'Neal is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Interview of Mary Tener Davidson Hall on her service as an U.S. Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956
Creator: Hall, Mary Tener Davidson
Date: 2004-02-18
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Mary Hall talks about her service as an Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956. Hall says that she enlisted in the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant in November 1951 and discusses her duties in the U.S., being sent to Japan in May 1953 as supply officer, and later to Eglin AFB in Florida with the same assignment. She says that while attending Squadron Officers School in Montgomery, AL, as one of five women in a class of 500 men, she met her husband, married him right after the course finished and...
Show moreMary Hall talks about her service as an Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956. Hall says that she enlisted in the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant in November 1951 and discusses her duties in the U.S., being sent to Japan in May 1953 as supply officer, and later to Eglin AFB in Florida with the same assignment. She says that while attending Squadron Officers School in Montgomery, AL, as one of five women in a class of 500 men, she met her husband, married him right after the course finished and left the Air Force in 1956 to start a family. After the Air Force, in addition to raising her family, Hall says that she attend graduate school, did volunteer work, sold real estate and after her husband died in 1991, moved to the Air Force Village in San Antonio and married again. Hall is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Poet Gerry LaFemina reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
Creator: LaFemina, Gerry, 1968-
Date: 2004-02-27
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Poet Gerry LaFemina reads selections from his poetry and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.

Title: Stephanie Mathson interviews poet Gerry LaFemina
Creator: LaFemina, Gerry, 1968-
Date: 2004-02-27
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Poet Gerry LaFemina talks about his move from New York to Grayling, MI, teaching at Kirtland Community College, the purpose of writing about adolescence, his book "Graffiti heart," and how he started translating Turkish poems, LaFemina is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.

Title: The Green Sheet. Vol. 20 no. 2 (2004 March/April)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: The Green Sheet

Title: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc. (2004 March)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.

Title: Tee to Green. Vol. 34 no. 2 (2004 March/April)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: Tee to Green

Title: Chips & Putts. Vol. 10 no. 1 (2004 March)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: Chips & Putts

Title: Turf Times. Vol. 33 no. 1 (2004 March/April)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: Turf Times

Title: The Greenerside. Vol. 28 no. 2 (2004 March/April)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: The Greenerside

Title: Connecticut Clippings. Vol. 38 no. 1 (2004 March)
Date: 2004-03
Collection: Connecticut Clippings

Title: Science fiction writer Steven Climer reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
Creator: Climer, Steven Lee
Date: 2004-03-19
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Science fiction, horror, and fantasy writer Steven Climer reads from his book "Pieces of the world : M" and then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.

Title: Stephanie Mathson interviews science fiction writer Steven Climer
Creator: Climer, Steven Lee
Date: 2004-03-19
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In a wide-ranging interview, Science fiction, horror, and fantasy writer Steven Climer talks about his book "Soul temple," his writing style, the film adaptation of his book "Demonesque," publishing in an electronic format, and how Michigan contributes to character development in his novels. Climer is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.

Title: TurfComms. Vol. 15 no. 5 (2004 March 22)
Date: 2004-03-22
Collection: TurfComms

Title: Australian Turfgrass Management. Vol. 6 no. 2 (2004 April/May)
Date: 2004-04
Collection: Australian Turfgrass Management Journal

Title: Business Management. (2004 April/May)
Date: 2004-04
Collection: Business Management

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