Oral history interview with Margaret Verhoeff Wyper, 1986.

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Oral history interview with Margaret Verhoeff Wyper, 1986.

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Interview with Wyper by Eleanor Stoddard on September 9 and October 12, 1986, under the auspices of California State University, Long Beach Foundation, includes family background, education, assignments with the Red Cross, her hospital work, etc.

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Wyper, Margaret Verhoeff, 1920-

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A graduate of Vassar College in 1941, Margaret Verhoeff Wyper served with the American Red Cross in England, working in Red Cross clubs for servicemen in Norwich and Salisbury. She later worked in a hospital in Malvern before being transferred to an Army hospital in Rheims, France. In September 1945 she married Lieutenant Bill McCarthy in Rheims. From the description of Oral history interview with Margaret Verhoeff Wyper, 1986. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 424658102 ...

Stoddard, Eleanor

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...