Title	[WAVES basketball team, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Group photo of the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at Hunter's Point basketball team, circa 1945. Pictured are: (top row): Jean, Ray, Bessie, LaRae; (middle)Red" Mary Jane, unknown, Louella; (front, center): Adeline Ledesma Teague.
Veteran's name	Teague, Adeline Juanita Ledesma
Veteran's biography	Adeline Ledesma Horner Teague (1924-2008) of California served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) at the end of WWII . Adeline Teague was born in San Diego, California, in 1924, to Mexican migrant farmworkers. She graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1941 and attended Los Angeles City College while working at the Wholesale Terminal Market. After college, she went to work for Pan American World Airways . Teague enlisted in the WAVES in June 1945, on her twenty-first birthday, and was sent to Hunter College, New York, for boot camp. She was then assigned to the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, where she worked in the personnel office. Following her discharge, Teague returned to work at the produce market in LA. After the death of her first husband, Teague moved to North Carolina and earned a degree from Elon College in 1950. She then returned to California to teach and eventually received her masters degree from Claremont. Teague also taught at California State University at Fullerton. She was widowed three times and had three children. She settled in Erect, North Carolina, and died in 2008.
Place	San Francisco (Calif.)
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	WV0241 Adeline Ledesma Teague Papers
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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	WV0241.6.003
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	900812681

[WAVES basketball team, circa 1945]

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