Blood, Sweat and Tears : An Oral History of the American Red Cross

by Turk, Michele P.

• ISBN13: 9780977719204
• ISBN10: 0977719200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: E Street Pr

Summary

"Blood, Sweat and Tears: An Oral History of the American Red Cross, is the story of the modern-day Red Cross told through the voices of twenty-nine current and former Red Cross paid and volunteer staff from all parts of the country. The stories range from that of a World War II veteran who credits the Red Cross packages with keeping him alive when he was a POW in Germany to Americans who became heroes simply because they signed up for a Red Cross course and were later able to save a life, to volunteers who spent an intense year in Vietnam cheering up soldiers. We hear from the staffer who pulled people from an automobile before the medics arrive; the mom who saved a neighbor's child when he was drowning; the nurse who took off from her job to go half-way around the world to distribute food and supplies to victims of the tsunami that struck the day after Christmas 2004."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	i
Introduction	v
PART I: The Red Cross at War	1	(88)
Chapter 1 Join Up, Join In: The Red Cross in World War II	3	(48)
Enso Bighinatti	9	(6)
Elma Ernst Fay	15	(10)
Dorothy Steinbis Davis	25	(8)
Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg	33	(6)
Mary Minamoto	39	(6)
Josephine "Jo" Sippy Schwaebe	45	(6)
Chapter 2 More than Coffee and Donuts	51	(38)
Sharon Vander Ven Cummings	57	(8)
Claude "Pete" Ashen	65	(8)
Jennifer Young	73	(10)
Katheryn Courville	83	(6)
PART II: The Eye of the Storm	89	(108)
Chapter 3 The Call of the Red Cross	91	(62)
Rolla "Bud" Crick	99	(6)
Ken Thompson	105	(10)
Teresa Palazzo	115	(6)
Elda Sanchez	121	(4)
Ross Ogden	125	(1010)
Martha Gebhardt	1135
Warren Zorek	143	(10)
Chapter 4 Red, White and Blue: Disaster Relief in the New Century	153	(44)
Virginia Stern	163	(8)
Linda Fink	171	(6)
James G. Cusic III	177	(6)
Vicki North	183	(6)
Paige Roberts	189	(8)
PART III: Lifelines	197	(50)
Chapter 5 Hometown Heroes	199	(20)
Gaylord "Red" Colle	203	(4)
Linda Jones, Maschel Rawlings and Lisa Roth	207	(6)
Kathleen Pearson	213	(6)
Chapter 6 Blood Brothers	219	(28)
Roy Popkin	225	(6)
Jean Eshelman	231	(6)
Ltc. Jonathon Douglas Bailey, Sr.	237	(4)
Karen Mackall	241	(6)
My Red Cross Story	247	(2)
Acknowledgements	249