The mother of blood banking
Subtitle: Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and the American Association of Blood Banks, 1944-1994
By: Bernice M. Hemphill ; with an introduction by Herbert A. Perkins. Interviews conducted by Germaine LaBerge in 1995 and 1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: LaBerge, Germaine.; Carley, Betty.; Kane, Arlene.; Shinagawa, Emiko.; Perkins, Herbert A.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: Irwin Memorial Blood Bank.; American Association of Blood Banks.; Blood banks -- California -- San Francisco.; Blood banks -- Administration.; Executives -- California -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Family background, childhood and education in San Francisco; training as bioanalyst at the University of California, Berkeley; marriage to navy dentist Charles Hemphill; World War II, Hawaii, 1941-1943; executive director, Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, 1943-1982: personnel policies, evolution of techniques, recruitment of owners and volunteers; establishing California and National Blood Bank Clearinghouse systems; American Association of Blood Banks; Blood Research Foundation; American Women for International Understanding.