Description
Dorothy Kugel was born in 1923 and grew up in Waynesfield, Ohio. After her high school graduation, Kugel was employed at the Westinghouse factory in Lima to pay for her tuition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She studied nursing at university and worked in the medical school during World War II, where she met her husband. In this interview, Kugel discusses her family and her childhood in Waynesfield, the effects of the Depression on local farmers and the community, working at Westinghouse, living and attending school in Ann Arbor, healthcare and medicine during the war, the postwar baby boom, and life after the war.