Interview with Sister Catherine Davenport, C.S.J., February 23, 1983, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0011-t1s1
"Interview with Sister Catherine Davenport, C.S.J., February 23, 1983; April 20, 1983" Metadata
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Title
Interview with Sister Catherine Davenport, C.S.J., February 23, 1983; April 20, 1983
Subject
St. Joseph's Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Jefferson Hospital (Jefferson Hills, Pa.), Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, St. Joseph's Infant Home (Ebensburg, Pa.), Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Davenport, Catherine, Catholics, Nuns--Religious life, Women missionaries, World War, 1939-1945
Description
[t1s1]Sister Catherine Davenport talks briefly about growing up in McKeesport. She talks about her 1923 nursing diploma from St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing; private duty and public health nurse work. She speaks about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph in 1925. She talks about missionary work in Hunan Province, China, 1935 to 1941: travel to and in China; Long March; Passionist priests; study of language and culture; health care nursing during cholera epidemic. [t1s2]Sister Catherine Davenport talks about missionary work in China 1935-1941: providing health care; Second Sino Japanese War/World War II; bombings; New Life Movement; Long March; China politics; Sister Clarissa Stattmiller’s death in China in 1927. [t2s1]Sister Catherine Davenport talks about missionary work in China mission during World War II: air raids; destruction of Chihkiang (Zhijiang), China; American planes using airfield; Passionist priests. She speaks of her journey to return to United States, including outwitting bandits in China. [t2s2]Sister Catherine Davenport speaks about return to the United States from China in 1941. She talks about studying at St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing (1920-1923); public health nursing in Bloomfield and Lawrenceville among the Blacks and Italians (c.1924-1925); her years (1947-1953) at the Infant Home in Ebensburg. She speaks of St. Joseph’s Hospital 1930s to 1960s: sisters’ work; care of miners; charity care. She speaks about St. Joseph’s Hospital transition in 1970s: home care program; Sister Crescentia Mulvehill; medical insurance.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Davenport, Catherine (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1983-02-23/1983-04-20
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 168 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0011
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
McKeesport (Pa.), Hunan Sheng (China)
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