Interview with Sister Mary Philip Wheeler, C.S.J., July 28, 1982, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0046-t1s1
"Interview with Sister Mary Philip Wheeler, C.S.J., July 23, 1982; August 4, 1982; September 1, 1982" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Interview with Sister Mary Philip Wheeler, C.S.J., July 23, 1982; August 4, 1982; September 1, 1982
Subject
St. Joseph's Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Jefferson Hospital (Jefferson Hills, Pa.), Zauner, Edward, Father, 1891-1970, Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Wheeler, Mary Philip, Catholics, Nuns--Religious life, Family life, World War, 1939-1945, Hospitals
Description
[t1s1]Sister Mary Philip Wheeler talks about growing up on the North Side: birth in 1912; father proofreader for Pittsburgh Press entire life; mother a housewife; Annunciation Grade and High School; memories of World War I; Depression; father daily attending Mass at St. Mary of Mercy; mother helping neighbors and family. She talks about her two brothers and World War II, one who was a hemophiliac. [t2s1]Sister Mary Philip Wheeler talks about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph; first teaching assignment at St. Richard (Hill District.. She talks about assignment at St. Joseph’s Hospital; sent for hospital education at St. Louis University and St. Vincent Hospital in New York City. She talks about serving as administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital 1950; after spinal cord tumor in 1958, changed to assistant administrator; work on merger of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Homestead Hospital in the 1970s; consolidation in 1977; Sister Crescentia Mulvehill. [t2s2]Sister Mary Philip Wheeler talks about Hospital Planning Association; Homestead Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital merger; insurance; Jefferson Hospital and South Hills Health System. She talks about community resistance to congregation purchase of homes; status of old St. Joseph’s buildings. She speaks about life with the sisters at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the 1950s and 1960s. She reflects on changes in convent life; religious life; habit; prayer life. She talks about the location of Jefferson. [t3s1]Sister Mary Philip Wheeler talks about 1933 to 1935 at St. Titus in Aliquippa: teaching; difficulties of registering as a Democrat and voting; effects of Depression on Aliquippa; sisters’ charity and visiting the poor; celebrations in the convent; transportation; Father Edward Zauner; ethnic backgrounds; sisters meeting challenges of getting food.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Wheeler, Mary Philip (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer), Heaps, Consuelo (interviewer)
Date
1982-07-23/1982-09-01
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 174 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0046
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Pittsburgh (Pa.), Aliquippa (Pa.)
Rights
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