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Title
[Marthalou
Hunter
and
K
.
Kostolich
,
circa
1943]
Date
1943
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Army--WAC
Item description
Marthalou
Hunter
(left)
with
3rd
Platoon
commander
of the
4th
Company
,
6th
Regiment
,
Sgt
.
K
.
Kostolich
, in
Daytona
Beach
,
circa
1943
.
Veteran's name
Hunter, Marthalou
Veteran's biography
Marthalou
Hunter
(1914-2006)
of
Cullowhee
,
North
Carolina
,
served
as a
lab
technician
while
a
member
of the
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
and the
Women's
Army
Corps
from
1943
to
1947
. She
later
had a
career
in
serology
and
public
health
in
North
Carolina
and
Georgia
.
Marthalou
Hunter
was
born
in
Weaverville
,
North
Carolina
, in
1914
. She
attended
Western
Carolina
Teachers
'
College
in
Cullowhee
(now
Western
Carolina
University)
for
two
years
and then
studied
at the
University
of
Arizona
. She
attended
nursing
school
at
Duke
University
for
one
year
but
received
her
bachelor's
degree
from
Western
Carolina
and
taught
science
from
1936
to
1938
at
Celeste
Hinkle
High
School
in
Statesville
,
North
Carolina
. In
1938
, she
got
a
job
at the
State
Laboratory
of
Hygiene
,
where
she
worked
until
1942
.
While
there, she
did
one
year
of
graduate
study
at the
Johns
Hopkins
School
of
Hygiene
and
Public
Health
,
Baltimore
,
Maryland
.
In
1942
,
Hunter
joined
the
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
. She
completed
Officer
Candidate
School
at
Fort
Des
Moines
,
Iowa
, as a
member
of the
third
WAAC
class
.
Hunter
was then
stationed
in
Daytona
Beach
,
Florida
, from
November
1942
to
March
1943
,
where
she
helped
establish
a
second
WAAC
training
center
.
Hunter
then
took
a
WAAC
company
to
Fort
Frances
E
.
Warren
in
Cheyenne
,
Wyoming
,
where
she
remained
through
the
fall
. Her
next
assignment
was
doing
laboratory
work
at
Fitzsimmons
General
Hospital
in
Denver
,
Colorado
, but she was not there
long
before
being
sent
back
to
Daytona
Beach
, and from there to
Brookley
Field
at
Mobile
,
Alabama
.
Hunter
was then
assigned
to
overseas
duty
. In
June
1944
she
arrived
in the
U.K
. and was
first
stationed
in
Salisbury
,
England
, at the
First
Medical
General
Lab
(FMGL)
for the
European
Theater
of
Operation
. She also
served
briefly
in
Le
Havre
,
France
, and
Darmstadt
,
Germany
,
before
returning
to the
U.S
. in
December
1946.
"
Following
her
discharge
in
early
1947
,
Hunter
worked
at the
Veterans
Administration
(VA)
hospital
in
Swannanoa
,
North
Carolina
,
before
getting
her
master's
at the
School
of
Public
Health
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
. She then
worked
at the
VA
Hospital
in
Dublin
,
Georgia
, and for
nine
years
at a
VA
Hospital
in
Atlanta
.
Hunter
later
retired
from the
Centers
for
Disease
Control
.
Place
Daytona
Beach
(Fla.)
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
WV0105 Marthalou Hunter Papers
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0105.6.003
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
900811708
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