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Title	[Hospital staff in Stutggart, Germany, 1954]
Date	1954
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- American Red Cross
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Dorothy Coley (second from right) with a fellow nurse and three soldiers in Stuggart, Germany, 1954.
Veteran's name	Coley, Dorothy Frances
Veteran's biography	Dorothy Coley (1919-2008) of Knightdale, North Carolina, served in the American Red Cross from 1942 to 1958 . Dorothy Frances Coley grew up in Wilders Grove, North Carolina, and graduated from high school in Knightdale in 1936. She then went to the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) to study physical education. After graduating in 1940, she taught for one year in Durham, North Carolina, and for another year at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina . In 1942, Coley joined the American Red Cross. After training in Washington, D.C., she went to Fort Polk in Leesville, Louisiana. Her next assignment was at a Daytona Beach, Florida, convalescent hospital, and then she was sent to the Navy Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. Coley’s last assignment during World War II was at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. After the war ended, she went overseas to supervise workers in hospitals in Stuttgart and Augsburg, Germany, and Switzerland. When she returned to the United States, she was stationed in New York until she left the Red Cross in 1958 . Coley earned a master’s degree in social work from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1960. She later worked in the Children’s Psychiatric Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Butner Hospital in Creedmoor, North Carolina.
Place	Stuggart (Germany)
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	WV0117 Dorothy Coley Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0117.6.005
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	900810929

[Hospital staff in Stutggart, Germany, 1954]

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