Call Number:

CDG-A.Miles, Ward and Alice Calder Miles

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, CDG-A. Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles collected papers..

Date:

1944-1948, 2003, 2007 (inclusive)

Creator:

Miles, Ward C., 1922-

Abstract:

Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide training, including a manuscript "Sweet Dreams and Stale Delusions" by Leonard Edelstein (1945).

Ward C. Miles; b. 1922; raised a Quaker; conscientious objector to World War II; assigned to Byberry State Hospital (Philadelphia, PA); married Alice Calder; became a physician after the war.