Marguerite V. Clodfelter Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 1999; various photographs of Clodfelter’s service with U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, undated; various publications for the Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1999; various personal papers, including Cadet Nurse Corps uniform descriptions, 1948-1955 and undated; 2 Cadet Nurse/ Cadet Nurse Corps/ United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps insignia Lapel Pins; 2 Cadet Nurse Buttons.
Dates
- circa 1943-1999
Creator
- Clodfelter Collection, Marguerite V. (Person)
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
Marguerite Clodfelter, originally of Alberta, Canada, served as a nurse in the Cadet Nurse Corps from 1944 to 1945, and later at hospitals in Durham and Whiteville, NC. Marguerite Clodfelter was born in Alberta, Canada, but moved to upstate New York at the age of ten. She attended Belleville Academy and then moved to Watertown, New York, and graduated from a school in Adams, New York.
Clodfelter enrolled in the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944. She spent an academic year taking classes at Plattsburgh State Teachers College in Plattsburgh, New York, and then went to the House of the Good Samaritan in Watertown, New York for clinical training. She served there for the remainder of the war, and was certified as a registered nurse.
Following the end of World War II, Clodfelter ended her affiliation with the Cadet Nurse Corps. She married Bob Clodfelter in June 1947 and moved to North Carolina, where she was a nurse at Watts Hospital in Durham while her husband attended law school at Duke University. She also worked briefly in a country hospital in Whiteville, North Carolina.
Clodfelter has been an member of the League of Women Voters, the board of the Winston-Salem YWCA, and is a supporter of environmentalist causes.
Extent
1.92 Linear Feet (4 folders, Artifact 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 fair.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- United States. Cadet Nurse Corps -- Interviews
- United States. Cadet Nurse Corps -- Uniforms
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Armed Forces -- United States -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- Marguerite V. Clodfelter Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- 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