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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
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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
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