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Title
[Formal
Portrait
of
Carol
Lousie
Pollack]
Date
Undated
Subject headings
United States--History--1969-
United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era
Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch
Marines--Women Marines
Item description
Formal
headshot
of
Carol
Louise
Pollack
.
Veteran's name
Pollack, Carol Lousie
Veteran's biography
Captain
Carol
Louise
Pollack
(b
.
1939)
served
in
administration
in the
United
States
Marine
Corps
from
1964-1976
.
Carol
Louise
Pollack
was
born
10
October
1939
in
Mankato
,
Minnesota
.
When
she was
six
years
old
, her
family
moved
to
Houston
,
Texas
. In
1959
, a
year
after
graduating
from
high
school
,
Pollack
began
attending
Lamar
State
College
of
Technology
in
Beaumont
,
Texas
,
where
she
earned
degrees
in
art
and
secondary
education
.
In
1964
,
Pollack
joined
the
United
States
Marine
Corps
. She
attended
Officer
Candidates
School
(OCS)
and The
Basic
School
in
Quantico
,
Virginia
.
Pollack's
first
duty
station
was
U.S
.
Marine
Corps
Recruiting
Depot
in
San
Diego
,
California
,
where
her
assignments
were
Training
Aid
Officer
,
General
Education
Development
Officer
, and
Top
Secret
Material
Control
Officer
.
After
three
years
,
Pollack
was
transferred
to
U.S
.
Marine
Corps
Air
Station
Cherry
Point
in
North
Carolina
,
where
,
again
, she
worked
as
Training
Aid
Officer
.
Pollack
was also in
charge
of the
link
trainers
, or
flight
simulators
,
coordinating
scheduling
.
Pollack
was
later
stationed
at
U.S
.
Marine
Corps
Base
Hawaii
, on the
island
of
O'ahu
,
where
she
worked
for
two
years
as
Top
Secret
Material
Control
Officer
. She also
acted
as an
Awards
Officer
,
making
sure
combat
veterans
received
their
appropriate
decorations
.
Pollack's
final
duty
station
was
U.S
.
Marine
Corps
Base
Camp
Lejeune
, in
Jacksonville
,
North
Carolina
where
she
worked
as
company
commander
of a
female
Marines
company
.
In
1977
,
after
thirteen
years
of
service
,
Pollack
was
required
to
leave
the
U.S
.
Marine
Corps
because
she had not
made
field
grade
, or
rank
of
major
. This was
during
an
era
where
there were
very
few
officer
slots
available
for
women
. She
went
on to
work
for the
United
States
Housing
and
Urban
Development
Department
in
Fort
Worth
,
Texas
.
Type
Image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0562 Carol Louise Pollack Oral History
Collection summary
The
April
2014
oral
history
has not
yet
been
transcribed
.
Rights statement
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Additional rights information
IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0562.6.001
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
914300452
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