Dorothy Sandridge Gloor Papers (Eighth Evacuation Unit Hospital)

Dorothy Sandridge was born on January 5th, 1920 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She attended Randolph Macon Women’s College and Mary Washington College before studying nursing at the University of Virginia. She graduated in 1942 and was accepted for service in the 8th Evacuation Hospital in the summer of that year. She began working in the sterilizing room, but soon signed up for training as a nurse anesthetist. She served for a brief period in a forward... unit and remained with the 8th Evac through the end of the Pacific Campaign. After the war, she worked with tuberculosis patients and then completed further training as a nurse anesthetist. She married Wilber Gloor in 1949, had a daughter and continued working in Connecticut and Massachusetts. She and her husband retired to Charlottesville in 1999 and Dorothy Sandridge Gloor died on June 21, 2016. Additional biographical information can be found in the Historical Exhibits of the Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Additional biographical information can be found in the Eighth Evacuation Unit Materials and Exhibit pages of the Historical Collections and Services Department, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.