University of North Carolina at Asheville D. Hiden Ramsey Library Special Collections/University Archives Oral History Register for Dr. Thomas Howald Dr. Thomas Howald Asheville Area Photographic Collection, aap523 D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA
Title	Dr. Thomas Howald Oral History
Creator	Dr. Thomas Howald
Alt. Creator	Interviewer: Dr. Louis D. Silveri
Subject	LCSH:
Subject	Keyword: Medicine ; Frontier Nursing Service ; Family feuds ; Rural Kentucky
Description	Dr. Howald describes his experiences with the Frontier Nursing Service at Hyden Hospital in Leslie County in eastern Kentucky. Howald describes life in rural Kentucky, including family feuds, and a social life that centered around such "homestyle" entertainment as candy pulls and making music on the front porch. Transcript of interview only: no tape.
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804
Contributor	Dr. Thomas Howald
Date	Electronic Record Issued: 2001-07-19
Type	Text
Format	17 double-spaced pages
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/SHRC/howald_t.html
Source	Louis D. Silveri Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Language	English
Relation	SHRC Dorothy Howald Oral History
Coverage	1950's-1970's ; Leslie County, KY ; Asheville, NC
Rights	No restrictions ; Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Acquisition	Donor number: 23 ; Date of acquisition: August, 1977
Processed By	Southern Highlands Research Center staff , 1978 ; Special Collections staff, 2001
Interview Date	1977-07-07
Biography	During a four-months internship in 1968, the summer of his senior year of medical school, he met his future wife, Dorothy Howald, who was teaching midwifery and in charge of family planning and home delivery service in the outpatient clinics of the Frontier Nursing Service in Leslie County, KY. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati Medical School and doing an internship at Cincinnati General Hospital, Dr. Howald felt a "need or an obligation" to return to rural Kentucky. Howald "learned an awful lot of medicine," serving as primary doctor for all the general medicine and pediatric patients, serving as backup for the nurses and midwifes, making weekly visits to outpost clinics, and being on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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