Marguerite V. Clodfelter Collection
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Cadet Nurses
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Marguerite Clodfelter (right) and a fellow Cadet Nurse in gray winter uniform and beret, 1943-1945.
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Oral history interview with Marguerite V. Clodfelter
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Marguerite V. Clodfelter primarily discusses her early life in Canada and upstate New York; her experiences and training in the Cadet Nurse Corps from 1944 to 1946; and her personal life and nursing career following World War II. Clodfelter discusses her father's background; the circumstances of her residences in Canada and several upstate New York locations; her brothers' citizenship and enlistment in the U.S. Army; and the circumstances surrounding her American citizenship. " Topics related to the Cadet Nurse Corps include Clodfelter's reasons for joining the corps; the hospitals where she did clinical rotations; quarters, stipend, duties, hours, supplies, social life, and uniforms for cadet nurses; instructors, staff, and medical personnel at the hospitals where she worked; orientation; and her specialty in emergency and operating room surgery. " Post-war topics include Clodfelter's return to more traditional female roles; her return to nursing at Watts Hospital; the working environment at a country hospital in Whiteville, North Carolina; her husband, marriage, and children's career in medicine; the impact of the Cadet Nurse Corps on her life; a cadet nurse reunion; and causes she became involved with, including environmentalism.
