Diane Kay Corcoran Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 March 2012; various photographs, circa 1970 and 1990-1991; a poster of the Superintendents and Chiefs Army Nurse Corps, 1901-1975); Vietnam Army nurse uniforms (Hot Weather Field Uniform blouse and skirt; green and white cord striped summer blouse and skirt.)
Dates
- circa 1970-2011
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical / Historical
Diane Kay Corcoran (b. 1946) served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) from 1969-1992. Diane Kay Corcoran was born in 1946 in Rochester, New York, where she also grew up. She attended the Genesee Hospital School of Nursing, where she signed up as a cadet in the United States Army Nurse Corps in her final year, joining the service full time upon her graduation in 1968.
Corcoran attended basic training at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Her first assignment was to the Letterman Army Hospital of the Presidio in San Francisco, where she worked in a combined neurosurgery and intensive care unit. She then received orders to Vietnam, leaving on the 15th of August, 1969, spending approximately a year there.
Upon returning to the United States, she took a year out of the service and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN), and returned to service. During the course of her service, Corcoran was also stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, and in 1976 became the chief nurse at the 86th combat support hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She also obtained her PhD, and retired in 1992 as a colonel.
Extent
3.21 Linear Feet (Document folder with 3 folders, textile box 1, and Oversize box 1)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Diane Kay Corcoran Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2023 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository