- Collection:
- Early Medical College of Georgia Women Graduates
- Title:
- Mary Kate MacMillan Hires, Class of 1931 and Katherine McMillan Hendry, Class of 1938, Medical College of Georgia
- Creator:
- Hires, Mary Kate MacMillan
Hendry, Katherine McMillan - Contributor to Resource:
- Hicks, Claire
Carlisle, Lynda Lee - Publisher:
- Historical Collections & Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Augusta University
- Date of Original:
- 10/19/1984
- Subject:
- Women medical students
Women physicians
Central State Hospital of Georgia
Birth
Anesthesia
Anesthetist
Physicians (General practice) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Pierce County, Blackshear, 31.30605, -82.24207
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484 - Medium:
- transcripts
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- This is a transcription of an audio-recorded interview of Dr. Mary Kate MacMillan Hires and Dr. Katherine McMillan Hendry conducted by Lynda Lee Carlisle and Claire Hicks as an independent study project during their fourth year as medical students at MCG on October 19, 1984. NOTE: no class photo or individual photos of Drs. Hires and Hendry are held in the Historical Collections and Archives.
Dr. Mary Kate MacMillan Hires did a pediatric internship at the University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia before working at the Ware County Hospital and setting up a practice in Patterson, Georgia. In 1939 she became the college physician at the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville. She joined the staff of physicians at the Central State Hospital in Milledgeville in 1949.
Dr. Hires retired from the Central State Hospital in 1969 and returned to Blackshear. Her husband, John Shelton Hires, died in 1954. They had two sons. Dr. Hires passed away at the age of 93 in 2000.
Dr. Katherine McMillan Hendry married her classmate Dr. William Hendry shortly after they graduated from MCG. Both Drs. Hendry interned at the Columbia Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. They returned to Blackshear where they joined the medical practice of Dr. George Hendry, William’s father.
A hospital opened in Blackshear in 1953. Dr. Katherine took an anesthesia course in Chicago and worked at the Blackshear Hospital as an anesthetist until she retired in 1978. In later years, the Hendrys divorced, but Dr. Katherine remained in Blackshear. She passed away at the age of 98 in 2010. She was survived by her children, and their spouses, and four grandchildren. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10675.2/623908
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Augusta University
- Additional Rights Information:
- Acknowledgement of the Historical Collections & Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Augusta University as a source is required.
- Original Collection:
- RG18.03: Audiotape collection held in the Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library at Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta University, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library
- Rights:
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