Women Doctors in War

Acknowledgments

I n piecing together the service of women doctors in various wars, we received generous help from a number of sources and individuals. Indeed, the assistance of colleagues, friends, researchers and professionals in the military, archival, and library fields was of invaluable help in the course of researching and writing this book. Rather than thank a host of people individually, we ask readers to consult the bibliography, where we have listed the various libraries and collections across the country that we consulted. People there are a credit to their professions and their respective institutions. Yet we owe special thanks to several institutions and individuals for lending us their help to document these women. At Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia (DUCM), the director of archives and special collections , Joanne Grossman, and the archivist, Barbara Williams, were of inestimable help in supplying biographical materials on women doctors from the Civil War through World War II. At the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania , archivist Melissa Wiford was of great assistance in gathering World War II materials regarding women doctors in the army and in answering specific questions about the Margaret Craighill Collection. Our thanks to the Bureau of Medicine (BUMED), the U.S. Navy, for supplying materials about and pictures of navy women. In particular, we would like to thank Andre B. Sobocinski , deputy historian/ publications manager, Office of the Historian, for reading and making comments on the chapter about women doctors in the navy. This work also would not have been possible without the ongoing help of the archivists at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, D.C., and the researchers at the Library of Congress. For help with collecting documents related to Mary Edwards Walker, we thank NARA as well as Terrance M. Prior, the curator at the Oswego Historical Society, Oswego , New York, and Terry Keenan at Syracuse University, Syracuse University Library Special Collections Department. We are also grateful to the Women In Military Service For America MemoACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii Acknowledgments rial Foundation (WIMSA) in Arlington, Virginia for their ongoing support of this project. Specifically, we would like to thank Foundation President Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, USAF (Ret.), for allowing us the use of the memorial’s unique and underutilized archival collections, register, and outstanding oral history collection. We also extend a special thanks to Britta Granrud, curator of collections at the Women’s Memorial, for her diligent and timely help in locating many of the Korean War, Cold War, and contemporary photographs used in the book. A very special thank you is long overdue to Judith’s husband, Michael Bellafaire , who gave his formidable skills to the project, and just as important, his patience and unfailing love and encouragement. Mercedes is equally grateful to her two sons and their families for their love and support. If we have forgotten anyone, please forgive the oversight—and know that your contributions throughout this process are very much appreciated. Women Doctors in War ...