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Whiting, Indiana: Generational Memory, 1991-1993

Interviewee
Frankowski, Clementine August 14, 1991 

Call Number
91-046

Physical Description

33 pages; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 79 minutes; index

Interviewer
Bodnar, John

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Clementine Frankowski, born in 1906, discusses her parents' emigration from Poland, her siblings' diseases and deaths before the advent of antibiotics and modern medicine, and her career as a physician in Whiting, Indiana. Dr. Frankowski speaks of her years in medical school at Loyola University, her medical practice in Whiting, and the sexism she experienced at hospitals such as St. Catherine's. In addition, she comments on how her Catholicism impacted her medical practice, especially in the area of birth control.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • St. Catherine's Hospital
    • Standard Oil Company
    • Occupation Names
    • physician
    • Subjects
    • birth control
    • cancer
    • Catholicism
    • diseases
    • medical practice
    • medical school
    • national politics
    • poverty
    • racial diversity
    • sexism