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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Thelma Gibson
Thelma Gibson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gibson, Thelma, 1926- interviewee.
Lewis, Tracey (Interviewer), interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Tracey Lewis, interviewer.
Recorded Coconut Grove, Florida 2006 February 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Nurse administrator Thelma Vernell Anderson Gibson was born on December 17, 1926, in Coconut Grove, Florida. Gibson graduated from George Washington Carver High School and attended Saint Agnes School of Nursing at Saint Augustine's College. In 1947, she became a registered nurse specializing in operating techniques. In 1956, she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied cancer and communicable diseases. Gibson attended the University of Miami from 1957 to 1958, earning her B.S. degree in nursing education in 1959, after one year of study at the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York. After working for a variety of health organizations including the E.J. Hall Clinic, Gibson served as nursing supervisor and part-time social worker for Mount Sinai Hospital from 1967 until 1980. In 1984, she founded the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Dade County. She was appointed Miami's interim city commissioner in 1997. Gibson passed away on May 2, 2011.
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