Living history hospital volunteers

ACROSS MY DESK: Living history hospital volunteers

Trading patients’ medical histories for life stories
A new volunteer program at the Yale-New Haven Hospital bridges patient-doctor divide. From the Yale Herald
BY LAURA YAO

"In a shared room at the Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), Gordon Williams—81,
born in Dublin, Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin, and repeat patient—sits wrapped in a soft white blanket. He is remembering his childhood during World War II; he speaks of Chamberlain, Hitler, Franco as if he had known them personally. JoAnn Kupiec is perched on the foot of his bed, scribbling furiously. Kupiec, who wears a hot pink hospital coat, is a Living History volunteer: Every Thursday, she visits willing patients here to record their life histories. The Living History program, established at YNHH last year, allows patients to share their lives. “It is a living, breathing chronicle of a patient’s non-medical history,” reads the program brochure."

For more about this exciting program, see: http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=5520

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Daughter traces Civil War soldier’s footsteps

Woman, 87, makes first visit to Limestone, where her Union dad was captured by Confederate forces
By Holly Hollman
hhollman@decaturdaily.com · 340-2445

ATHENS — "After dinner, when Samuel Washington Jenkins gathered his brood and the neighborhood children on his front porch in Tennessee’s Bakewell community, he entertained them with stories about being a prisoner of war and surviving smallpox and a sinking ship.

His capture by Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in Limestone County is where his war tale began.

Jenkins’ daughter, 87-year-old Glenna Jenkins Green, recalled those porch gatherings Friday during her first visit to Limestone County. She is the last living child of Jenkins, who fathered 21 children. Jenkins was in his 70s when Glenna was born."

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To read the remainder of this fascinating article, see:
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070414/footsteps.shtml

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