Family background, childhood, and education in San Francisco; bioanalyst training,
UC-affiliated college and hospital; marriage to navy dentist, Charles Hemphill; presence at Pearl Harbor, 1941, blood bank work in Hawaii, 1941-1943; executive director, Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, 1943-1982: personnel policies, evolution of scientific techniques, outreach to community, recruitment of donors and volunteers, education of technologists; establishing California and National Blood Bank Clearinghouse System;
American Assn. of Blood Banks: origins in 1947, standards, issues including American Red Cross and lawsuits; establishing Blood Research Foundation; American Women for International Understanding; Women's Forum West; reflections on national blood bank figures. Includes interviews with Irwin Memorial Blood Bank personnel BETTY CARLEY, ARLENE KANE, and EMIKO SHINAGAWA.
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Bernice Hemphill: The Mother of Blood Banking: Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and the American Association of Blood Banks 1944-1994
Note
Hemphill, Bernice. "Bernice Hemphill: The Mother of Blood Banking: Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and the American Association of Blood Banks 1944-1994." Interview by Germaine LaBerge in 1995 and 1996. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Interview date(s) 1995
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