[Sylvia K. Swink, circa 1944]
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Title |
[Sylvia K. Swink, circa 1944] |
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Date |
1944 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Navy--WAVES |
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Item description |
Sylvia Kenny Swink poses outside in the WAVES white service dress uniform and service hat with white cover, circa 1944. |
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Veteran's name |
Swink, Sylvia Irene Kenny |
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Veteran's biography |
Sylvia Kenny Swink (1924-2010) of Burtrum, Minnesota, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1945, and later worked for Guilford County, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1989.
Sylvia Kenny Swink was born in Burtrum, Minnesota, in July 1924, and graduated from high school there in 1942. She enrolled at the University of Minnesota until she was old enough to join the WAVES .
Swink enlisted in the WAVES in July 1944. She completed basic training at Hunter College in New York and then was sent to the Navy Annex Washington, D.C., to do clerical work. Swink was discharged in 1945 when she marries Colon Swink .
The couple moved to Texas for a brief time and then to California, where she worked at the Department of Employment in Sacramento. In 1948, the couple moved to Minnesota, and two years later, the Swinks relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina, where Colon had family. There, Sylvia Swink worked for Guilford County as a clerk and tax collector from 1953 to 1989. Swink died on 30 April 2010 in Greensboro, NC. |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0273 Sylvia K. Swink Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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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. |
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Object ID |
WV0273.6.006 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900813071 |
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