A history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has edited a memoir of a woman who served as a medical aide in the Philippines during World War II.

Theresa Kaminski, associate professor of history, has edited and written the introduction to "Enduring What Cannot Be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II" by Dorothy Dore Dowlen. The book recently was published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson N. C.

Kaminski, who teaches a variety of courses on U.S. history and American women�s history, is the author of "Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific," published by University Press of Kansas. Her specialty is gender and war.

Kaminski is continuing her research on American women while on sabbatical this year. She is writing a biography of Ethel Thomas Herold, a Potosi native who traveled to the Philippines in 1922 with her husband Elmer as teachers. The couple remained there until 1959, spending World War II as prisoners of the Japanese with their children, when they returned to Potosi and became active in the Republican Party.

A faculty member at UWSP since 1992, Kaminski holds degrees from Rosary College, River Forest, Ill., Illinois State University, Normal, Ill., and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dowlen, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1951, now resides in San Jose, Calif., and is pursuing a master�s degree in clinical counseling. Her book is described by the publisher as "a compelling story of love, loss, family, courage, and survival during an especially horrifying time."

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