British Women Organists – 18 Aug 2019
Women Organists in Victorian England: What Did They Wear? After I had presented a paper about women organists in nineteenth-century England at an organ conference in Oxford [UK] several years…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 20 Jul 2019
From Chickens to Flying: Lauretta M. Schimmoler and the Aerial Nurse Corps of America Thanks to Robert E. Skinner’s meticulous research from the 1980s, we know much about the life…
British Women Organists – 22 Jun 2019
‘Place aux dames’? Women Organists in the First World War After carefully reviewing issues of the Musical Times 1901 to 1910, I was not satisfied with the numbers of women…
British Women Organists – 2 Jun 2019
‘Place aux dames’? Women Organists in Edwardian England Writing about ‘Women at the Console’ in the Musical Opinion in 1954, Martin Hawkins noted the conspicuous absence at the beginning of…
British Women Organists – 28 Apr 2019
Elizabeth Stirling (26 February 1819 - 25 March 1895) Many years ago when researching Samuel Wesley and the introduction of Bach’s organ music into England, I came across the name…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 6 Apr 2019
World War II Flight Nurses Identified Flight Nurses Anna Ranahan, Grace Dunnam, Dolly Vinsant, and Jean Tierney of the 806 Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, circa 1943 Until recently I had…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 16 Mar 2019
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 8 Flight nursing in the United States Army Air Forces had become a reality when the 802nd Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron left…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 10 Feb 2019
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 7 Undeterred by the American Nurses Association (ANA) rejection of the Aerial Nurse Corps of America (ANCOA), Schimmoler again set her sights on…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 12 Jan 2019
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 6 To avoid possible misunderstandings of Aerial Nurse Corps of America (ANCOA) activities, by 1939 its founder, pilot Loretta Schimmoler, had appointed a…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 24 Dec 2018
The Aerial Nurse Corps of AmericaPart 5 Leaders of the American Red Cross (ARC) had been following the activities of pilot Lauretta Schimmoler and the Aerial Nurse Corps of America…