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Title
[Butler
sisters
at
ship
christening
,
1943]
Date
1943-11-30
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Frances
Butler's
sisters
,
Julia
Butler
and
Josephine
Butler
,
pose
at the
christening
of the
Liberty
ship
SSEdwin
L
.
Godkin
on
30
November
1943
. The
Butler
sisters
worked
at the
Savannah
Ship
Building
Company
prior
to
joining
the
WAVES
, and
Josephine
holds
the
bottle
that will
christen
the
ship
.
Both
women
wear
the
WAVES
overcoat
and
officer's
cap
with
blue
cover
.
Veteran's name
Butler, Frances
Veteran's biography
Sister
Frances
Butler
(1924-2013)
of
Savannah
,
Georgia
,
served
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
during
World
War
II
, and
later
joined
the
Sisters
of
Notre
Dame
de
Namur
.
Sister
Frances
Butler
was
born
in
Savannah
,
Georgia
, in
1924
. She was the
fourth
of her
sisters
to
attended
Woman’s
College
(WC)
in
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
,
which
she
did
for
two
years
before
becoming
the
third
of her
sisters
to
join
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
[Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service]
in the
summer
of
1944
.
Butler
was
sworn
into the
service
in
Nashville
,
Tennessee
, and
sent
to
Hunter
College
in
New
York
for
boot
camp
. She
worked
in
communications
while
stationed
in
Charleston
,
South
Carolina
, and then the
following
summer
was
sent
to
Pearl
Harbor
,
Hawaii
.
After
leaving
the
WAVES
,
Butler
returned
to
Woman’s
College
in
fall
1946
,
double
majoring
in
French
and
Spanish
, and
completing
her
degree
in
1948
. She
received
a
French
government
assistantship
and
taught
at a
boys’
school
in
France
for a
year
.
Butler
returned
to the
U.S
. and
attended
Columbia
University
in
New
York
, but
returned
to
WC
in
1951
to
serve
as a
counselor
at the
request
of
Dean
Katherine
Taylor
.
Three
years
later
she
enrolled
in a
counseling
program
at
Catholic
University
in
Washington
,
D.C
.
While
there, she
met
the
Sisters
of
Notre
Dame
de
Namur
,
who
ran
nearby
Trinity
Washington
University
.
In the
mid-1950s
,
Butler
joined
the
Sisters
of
Notre
Dame
in
Belgium
. She then
returned
to the
U.S
. and
taught
French
at
Trinity
, then was
sent
to
Rome
for
five
years
in the
1960s
.
Following
a
year-long
pilgrimage
to
Jerusalem
,
Butler
returned
to
Washington
,
D.C.
, to
establish
and
direct
the
sisters
'
Education
for
Parish
Services
[EPS]
Faith
Vacations
program
.
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
WV0281 Frances Butler Papers
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.
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.
Object ID
WV0281.6.002
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
900812588
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