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Title
[Bobbi
and
Roger
Earp
in
air
traffic
control
tower
,
1945]
Date
1945
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Navy
personnel
N
.
Marilyn
"
Bobbi
"
Roberts
Earp
and
Roger
Earp
,
who
married
in
September
1945
, at
work
in the
air
traffic
control
tower
at
Naval
Air
Station
Glenview
(Illinois)
in
1945
.
Veteran's name
Earp, Nelda Marilyn Roberts
Veteran's biography
Marilyn
Roberts
“Bobbi”
Earp
of
Galien
,
Michigan
, was an
air
traffic
controller
with the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Services)
from
1944
to
1949
,
followed
by a
long
career
as a
teacher
in
Tabor
City
,
North
Carolina
.
Marilyn
“Bobbi”
Roberts
Earp
was
born
and
raised
in
rural
Galien
,
Michigan
. She
graduated
from
high
school
in
1940
and
entered
the
Western
Michigan
Teacher’s
College
in
Kalamazoo
,
where
she
lived
with
sisters
who
were
pilots
.
After
three
years
of
college
, she
dropped
out
to
take
flying
lessons
and
later
joined
the
Civil
Air
Patrol
,
while
also
working
in a
parachute
flare
packing
factory
.
Before
Earp
could
get
enough
solo
hours
to
qualify
for the
WASP
(Women
Airforce
Service
Pilots)
, the
service
ceased
taking
new
recruits.
"
Instead
,
Earp
joined
the
WAVES
in
July
1944
and
attended
basic
training
at
Hunter
College
in
New
York
.
After
completing
air
traffic
control
training
in
Atlanta
,
Earp
was
stationed
at the
naval
air
base
in
Glenview
,
Illinois
. She
worked
as an
air
traffic
controller
there
until
her
discharge
in
1946
, and
married
fellow
air
traffic
controller
Roger
Earp
in
September
1945
.
Earp
returned
to
service
in
operations
at
Glenview
about
a
year
later
, but was
permanently
discharged
from the
U.S
.
Navy
in
1949
when
she
became
pregnant
.
Earp
went
back
to
school
in the
early
1960s
,
finishing
her
degree
in
education
at
Pembroke
.
When
Roger
Earp
passed
away
in
1964
, she
began
a
career
in
teaching
in
Tabor
City
,
North
Carolina
.
Place
Glenview
(Ill.)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Work 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
WV0174 Marilyn Roberts "Bobbi" Earp Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
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holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0174.6.001
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
900811743
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