Interview with Sister Shirley Heim, C.S.J., October 30, 1979, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0018-t1s1
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Title
Interview with Sister Shirley Heim, C.S.J., October 30, 1979
Subject
Georgetown University Hospital, Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Heim, Shirley, Catholics, Family life, Nuns--Religious life, Nursing
Description
[t1s1]Sister Shirley Heim talks about her family’s roots in England and Ireland; conversion to Catholicism; her father a tailor; the marriage of parents; family life in Altoona; meeting nuns at Altoona Central Catholic High School; railroad business part of extended family’s lives; her siblings’ lives; becoming a Sister of St. Joseph; work at Georgetown University Hospital; national newspaper stories on their change out of habit at Georgetown in 1967; change in religious community living arrangements in 1970s.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Heim, Shirley (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1979-10-30
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 43 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0018
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Altoona (Pa.)
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