Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection

Doris Wofford Armenaki
Formal portrait of Doris Armenaki in Army Nurse Corps uniform in 1944 or 1945.
Oral history interview with Doris Wofford Armenaki
Documents Doris Wofford Armenaki's early life; education; military service as a nurse during World War II; personal life after the war; and nursing training and teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from the 1970s to the 1990s. Armenaki recalss her early education and education for women in the 1930s and 1940s. She describes her attendance at North Georgia College and the reaction of students at this military school to the attack on Pearl Harbor. " Comments about Armenaki's service in the Cadet Nurse Corps include an overview of joining the program, program rules, and social activities. Armenaki also describes her work and living quarters at Kennedy General Hospital in Memphis, a special hospital for amputees and psychiatric cases, and comments on working with amputees and prisoners of war returning from both Europe and the Pacific. Other subjects include patriotism, support for the war, and pride in her work and her contributions to the war effort. " Armenaki also discusses at length her post-war nursing positions; her decision to obtain a bachelor of science in nursing at UNCG and a master's degree in nursing from the University of Alabama; her teaching at UNCG; and her work as director of an off-campus RN-to-BSN program in Hickory, North Carolina.