[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].

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer.)
University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries (current owner.)
Other Authors: Slone-Baker, Therese, 1917-2013 (Interviewee)
Stewart, Ruth F. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Slone-Baker, Therese, > 1917-2013 > Interviews.
Women veterans > Interviews.
Women veterans > Hospital care > Texas > San Antonio.
Women veterans > Services for > Texas > San Antonio.
Women veterans.
Women veterans > Services for.
Texas > San Antonio.
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (17 min., 28 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
Description
Summary:
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.
Note:Title supplied.
Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Originally recorded on an analog cassette held by the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries. Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries.
Call Number:Voice 35421
DB35421 cassette
Playing Time:00:17:28
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Therese Slone-Baker ; interviewer, Ruth F. Stewart.
Event Details:
Recorded 2005 March 26