Descriptive Summary

Repository:  University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Title: Dorothy Sandridge Gloor Collection

Physical Characteristics: 2 linear feet, 4 boxes

Language: English

Collector: Dorothy Sandridge Gloor

Biographical Information

Dorothy Sandridge was born on January 5, 1920 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She attended Randolph Macon Women’s College and Mary Washington College before studying nursing at the University of Virginia. She graduated in 1942 and was accepted for service in the Eighth Evacuation Hospital that year. She began working in the sterilizing room, but soon signed up for training as a nurse anesthetist. She served for a brief period in a forward unit and remained with the army until her demobilization in 1947.  After the war, she returned to Charlottesville, where she worked as a nurse anesthetist at the University of Virginia Hospital and the Blue Ridge Tuberculosis Sanatorium, having been offered the position by Dr. Cato Drash, her colleague in the Eight Evac.  She married Wilber Gloor in 1948 and continued work as a nurse anesthetist in Cleveland, Ohio.  Soon the Gloors transferred to Connecticut, where their daughter was born, then Massachussetts, and back to Ohio.  She and her husband retired to Charlottesville in 1999.  Dorothy Sandridge Gloor died on June 21, 2016.

Additional biographical information can be found in the Eighth Evacuation Unit Materials and Exhibit pages of the Historical Collections and Services Department, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Scope and Content

The Dorothy Sandridge Gloor Collection consists of keepsakes, correspondence, and photographs relative to Gloor’s service as a nurse with the Eighth Evacuation Unit Hospital during World War Two, principally in Italy.  Of particular importance are an extensive collection of photographs and albums, as well as a small group of autobiographical texts by Gloor and a recorded interview, all concerning her wartime experiences.  Also of interest are scrapbooks of newspaper clippings assembled in the moment by Gloor; these concern reports on the progress of the war, organized by geographical region, in addition to commemorative articles published after the demise of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Series Description

Arrangement

Textual materials, correspondence, and other papers are filed in Box 1, correspondents ordered by last name.  Loose photographs, including those removed from albums, are arranged by general subject folders in Box 2.  Boxes 3 and 4 contain photograph albums and newspaper clipping scrapbooks as Gloor made them, inventoried below.  These should be handled with care, as some pages are in fragile condition.

Contents List

V MAIL BLANK MILITARY MAIL FORMS.
ca. 1942-45   Box-Folder:  01-001 

KEEPSAKES FROM TRIPS TO ROME, FLORENCE, AND MILAN, ITALY;  AND DAVOS-PLAZ, SWITZERLAND.
1945   Box-Folder:  01-002 

BULLETIN OF THE ARMY UNIVERSITY STUDY CENTER (MTOUSA), THE CATALOGUE.
1945   Box-Folder:  01-003 

DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  MEMBERSHIP CARDS/CERTIFICATES.
ca. 1942-45, 1950, 1992   Box-Folder:  01-004 

DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  COMMISSION AS FIRST LIEUTENANT.
1947   Box-Folder:  01-005 

EIGHTH EVAC UNIT ALUMNI CHRISTMAS LETTERS.
1946-49   Box-Folder:  01-006 

NEWSPAPER CLIPPING ON MOROCCAN WEDDING WITH NOTE BY GLOOR.
1965   Box-Folder:  01-007 

CORRESPONDENCE OF LEONARD I. MALIS, M.D. WITH DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR.
1993-2003   Box-Folder:  01-008 

CORRESPONDENCE OF RACHEL MOSS WITH DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR.
1964-1981   Box-Folder:  01-009 

CORRESPONDENCE OF EDWIN H. MULFORD, II, M.D. WITH DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR.
1985-1998   Box-Folder:  01-010 

CORRESPONDENCE OF GEBHARD SCHERRER, JR. WITH DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR.
1946-48   Box-Folder:  01-011 

CORRESPONDENCE OF DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR WITH CARRIE A. SMITH.
1952-1973   Box-Folder:  01-012 

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS.
1956-2011   Box-Folder:  01-013 

ELIZABETH (ENGLEMAN) CARTER:  C’EST LE GARRE, REMINISCENSES OF A WWII ARMY NURSE.
[1992]   Box-Folder:  01-014 

FEATURE NEWS STORIES CONCERNING DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR AND THE EIGHTH EVAC HOSPITAL.
1985, 2004, 2013   Box-Folder:  01-015 

DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTS.
1960-2014, n.d.   Box-Folder:  01-016 

DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  INTERVIEW RECORDING (WITH TRANSCRIPT;  SATIRICAL SONG LYRICS;  DIGITAL MEDIA: 2 DVDs (INTERVIEW), 1 DVD (PHOTOGRAPHIC SCANS).
2003   Box-Folder:  01-017 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF NURSING CLASS PHOTOGRAPH.
1942   Box-Folder:  02-001 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  PORTRAITS, INCLUDING DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR.
ca. 1942-45   Box-Folder:  02-002 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  EIGHTH EVACUATION HOSPITAL, GENERAL CAMP PHOTOGRAPHS.
1944-45   Box-Folder:  02-003 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  EIGHTH EVACUATION HOSPITAL, CAMP VIEWS WITH GLOOR AND FRIENDS.
1944-45   Box-Folder:  02-004 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  EIGHTH EVACUATION HOSPITAL PERSONNEL:  WEDDING.
1945   Box-Folder:  02-005 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR, FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE.
ca. 1945   Box-Folder:  02-006 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  TRAVEL TO VENEZIA/VENICE.
1945   Box-Folder:  02-007 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  TRAVEL TO LAGO MAGGIORE, ITALY-SWITZERLAND, VIEWS OF LAGO GARDA.
1945   Box-Folder:  02-008 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  DOROTHY (SANDRIDGE) GLOOR:  CITY VIEWS:  ROME, MILAN, SIENA, AND BERGAMO, ITALY;  ZURICH, SWITZERLAND;  AND UNIDENTIFIED.
ca. 1945   Box-Folder:  02-009 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  LARGE FORMAT COMMERCIAL PRINTS:  CAPRI, NAPLES, AND STRESSA, ITALY.
1944-45   Box-Folder:  02-010 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  UNIDENTIFIED.
ca. 1945   Box-Folder:  02-011 

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:  EIGHTH EVAC REUNIONS.
1980, 1990, n.d.   Box-Folder:  02-012 

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, EIGHTH EVAC HOSPITAL AND PERSONNEL;  ROME.
[1944-45]   Box-Item:  03-001 

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, EIGHTH EVAC HOSPITAL AND PERSONNEL (SOME INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED BY GLOOR);  ITALIAN AND SWISS SIGHTSEEING.
[1944-45]   Box-Item:  03-002 

SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:  1) MEMORIALIZING FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, 2) CONCERNING WINSTON CHURCHILL’S ELECTORAL DEFEAT.
[1944-45]   Box-Item:  03-003 

FOLDER OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:  INCLUDES TOPICS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
1944-1955, n.d.   Box-Item:  03-004 

SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, ENTITLED:  “EVENTS OF WORLD WAR NO. II, PART I, 1942 – 1945, AFRICAN AND ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.”
1939-1957   Box-Item:  03-005 

SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, ENTITLED:  “WORLD WAR II, WESTERN FRONT, PART II.”
1944-1946   Box-Item:  04-001 

SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, ENTITLED:  “RUSSIA, EASTERN FRONT, PART III.”
1944-1945   Box-Item:  04-002 

SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, ENTITLED:  “PACIFIC WAR, JAPAN, PART IV.”
1944-1945   Box-Item:  04-003

Notes

Access: No Restrictions

Use Restrictions: No Restrictions

Preferred Citation:
University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor Collection

Processing Information: Processed by Eric Drongowski and Aubrey Nguyen in 2017, with modifications by Henry K. Sharp in 2017.