NELDA WEEKS
Denver, Colorado Unit





Transcript of an Oral History  Reminiscence

















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Nelda Weeks







PREFACE


This transcript is the product of a reminiscence conducted on 15 April, 1985, for the Women’s Overseas Service League.
Signed, dated agreements of release and biographical information accompany the original casset te.






















Transcribed by Patricia
Lansing,
Siggers Michigan

1 June, 1989


WOMEN'S OVERSEAS SERVICE LEAGUE
Oral History Project



NELDA WEEKS
2
Denver, Colorado Unit
4
NOTE:	One of our members,  Nelda Weeks,	is
6	ill	and	did	not	wish	to	be	interviewed.

However,she gave me	this information	and
8	asked me to tape it for  her.
Marjorie Brown.
10
MB:	Nelda	joined  the Denver Unit	of WOSL	in 1973.
12	When she was in the Service, she was a member   of the Army	Nurse	Corps.	She	volunteered	for	the	Army
14	Nurse	Corps	after	spending		six	months	as	a	cadet nurse in an Army hospital.	Before she came into  the
16	Service,	she	was	a	general	duty	nurse	and	then
obstetrical	supervisor.	While	in the Service,	her
18	duties remained	in obstetrics		and in administration in the nursing office.	She	served in  the Army for
20	twenty five years.

Her	travels	took	her	to Hawaii,	Guam,	Japan,
22	France,	and Germany.		Her housing was mostly  on the economy.		She	feels	that  the nature  of the medical
24	care available	to her	was good.		Her uniforms	were the	green,	the	blue	class	A,	the	seersucker	duty
WOMEN’S OVERSEAS SERVICE LEAGUE
NELDA WEEKS, Denver Unit



26	uniform	for	the	hospital,	and	then	finally,	the
whites.
28
One	of	her	funniest	experiences	was	when	she
30	was on	leave in Portugal,	and she was	picked up by the police.	She did not say why.
32		She really didn't have much of  an adjustment	to make		in the Service.	If any,	it was	the constant
34		change	of		climate	as		she	went	from	 post	to	post. She	felt	when	she	went		into		 the	Army		that	it
36	probably would be a career, and it  was.
After her service was over, she retired and   has

38		just enjoyed retiring and traveling until   her health became poor.
40		Being	a member	of  WOSL has meant		to her		that she	is	with	people	that	have	a	 shared	like-
42	experience:	Also	the feeling	that	by belonging	to
WOSL,	there	are	people	we	have	helped	and
44	organizations that we have  helped.


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48	Transcribed by Patricia Siggers Lansing, Michigan






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INDEX	WEEKS


Army Nurse Corps, 1 Locations
France, 1
Germany, 1
Guam, 1
Hawaii, 1

Japan, 1
Portugal, 1

Medical care, 1
Uniforms, 1