Interview with Hazel Corbin, April 30, 1979
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
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Hazel Corbin visited Mary Breckinridge in Leslie County when the FNS was being organized, and Corbin describes conditions in the area in the 1920s. She was acquainted with early FNS personnel and recalls Anne Morgan, founder of the American Committee for Devastated France (C.A.R.D.). Corbin visited the Royal College of Nurse-Midwifery in London and also the Central Midwives' Board. She discusses Mary Breckinridge's midwifery training, and her own travels with Breckinridge in England. Corbin became a member of the New York City Committee in 1932.Interview Accession
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Corbin, Hazel Interview by Carol Crowe-Carraco. 30 Apr. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Corbin, H. (1979, April 30). Interview by C. Crowe-Carraco. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Corbin, Hazel, interview by Carol Crowe-Carraco. April 30, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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