Interview with Sister Joseph Therese McHugh, C.S.J., June 24, 1981, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0030-t1s1
"Interview with Sister Joseph Therese McHugh, C.S.J., January 13, 1982; June 24, 1981" Metadata
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Title
Interview with Sister Joseph Therese McHugh, C.S.J., January 13, 1982; June 24, 1981
Subject
St. Joseph's Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), St. Joseph's Infant Home (Ebensburg, Pa.), Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, McHugh, Joseph Therese, Sister, C.S.J., Catholics, Nuns--Religious life, Hospitals, Orphanages
Description
[t1s1]Sister Joseph Therese McHugh talks about the history of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Cumberland, Maryland, from 1888-1907. She talks about graduating from Duquesne University’s School of Nursing in 1927. [t1s2]Sister Joseph Therese McHugh talks about St. Joseph’s Hospital: history of the hospital; becoming a nurse anesthetist and licensed medical technologist; working at and living with sisters at the hospital. [t2s1]Sister Joseph Therese McHugh talks about working at Jefferson Hospital; changes in hospital work. [t3s1]Sister Joseph Therese McHugh talks about her years in Cumberland: father as a coal merchant; her nursing training 1913-1916; Sisters of St. Joseph visiting the sick; the 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic; Blacks. She talks about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph in 1920s; working in the Infant Home in Ebensburg. [t3s2]Sister Therese Joseph McHugh talks about working at St. Joseph’s Infant Home in Ebensburg. She speaks about the history of St. Joseph’s Hospital; charity care during the Depression; alcoholic clinic; the closing of the hospital.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), McHugh, Joseph Therese, Sister, C.S.J. (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer), Heaps, Consuelo (interviewer)
Date
1982-01-13/1981-06-24
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 136 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0030
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Cumberland (Md.)
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