My grandmother's 1942 Medical Technologist card

Short post today today with an item from 84 years ago. It's my grandmother's (Helen Chandler Adams Ingham, 1919-2003) wallet-size blue card indicating that in 1942 she was certified as Medical Technologist as defined by Board of Registry of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.

According to its website, the society was founded in 1922 by a group of 39 physicians to achieve important goals to further the laboratory in health care. Today, "ASCP continues to drive change in the U.S. and around the world through its many initiatives including the Leading Laboratories Recognition Program; Partners for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Africa, which provides rapid cancer diagnostics, care, and treatment to Sub-Saharan Africa; the ASCP Foundation to support diagnostic medicine and public health; and numerous collaborations with PEPFAR to bring pathology and laboratory medicine to under-resourced countries," the website further states.

Around this general time (World War II), my grandmother was working at Bushnell Army Hospital in Brigham City, Utah. So this card may have been issued to her while she was there. I should try to piece together more information from that time of her life at some point.

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