Midwest China Oral History Interviews

Early Life: family background; education; called by Mission Board of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church to serve as a nurse. China Experiences: memories of Sister Thone Sandland; emotional struggles faced by single women missionaries; description of first year spent at language school in Peking in 1923; experiences at hospitals in Kioshan and Hwangchuan; memorable people at Hwangchuan; Hwangchuan ladies\u27 aid society; evacuatioin due to civil unrest, 1927; experiences as school nurse at American School-Kikungshan (ASK); why ASK moved to Kuling; training nurses and other responsibilities at Union Hospital, Sinyang; the reputation of Dr. Skinsnes in Sinyang; supply problems at Hwangchuan hospital, 1935; effects of Japanese occupation and bombing on city and hospital of Hwangchuan; uncertainties created by the war; journey out of China to America, 1944; work in Fancheng after return to China, 1946.https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/china_histories/1079/thumbnail.jp