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Title
[Portrait
of
Maxine
Pierce
,
circa
1964]
Date
1964
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
United States--History--1945-
United States. Navy--Women
Era
Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch
Navy
Item description
Portrait
of
Maxine
Pierce
,
circa
1964
.
Veteran's name
Pierce, Evelyn Maxine Newcom
Veteran's biography
Evelyn
Maxine
Newcom
Pierce
(b
.
1922)
of
Herrin
,
Illinois
,
served
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
1943
to
1964
, and then
worked
at
Southern
Illinois
University
until
the
mid-1980s
.
Evelyn
Maxine
Newcom
Pierce
was
born
on
21
September
1922
in
Freeman
Spur
,
Illinois
, the
youngest
of
seven
children
.
Pierce
graduated
from
high
school
in
Herrin
,
Illinois
, in
1940
and
began
working
in
personnel
at the
nearby
Illinois
Ordnance
Plant.
"
Pierce
enlisted
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
in the
fall
of
1943
. She
completed
four
weeks
of
boot
camp
at
Hunter
College
in the
Bronx
,
New
York
, and then
attended
yeoman
school
at the
Naval
Training
Center
in
Stillwater
,
Oklahoma
, for
three
months
. In
early
1944
,
Pierce
was
assigned
to the
Navy
Recruiting
Station
in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
,
where
she
performed
clerical
and then
public
relations
work
for
almost
three
years
. She
remained
in
Philadelphia
after
World
War
II
, at the
4th
Naval
District
and then the
Aviation
Supply
Office
,
where
she was the
information
and
education
officer
until
going
on
inactive
duty.
"
Pierce
volunteered
to be
reactivated
and was
assigned
to
6th
Naval
District
Reserve
Recruiting
in
Charleston
,
South
Carolina
,
where
she
did
worked
as an
office
assistant
.
Following
completion
of
recruiting
school
in
Norfolk
,
Virginia
,
Peirce
was
stationed
in
St
.
Louis
,
Missouri
, as a
recruiter
.
Several
years
later
she was
transferred
to the
officer
personnel
office
at
Naval
Air
Station
Pensacola
,
Florida
. In
June
1957
,
Pierce
went
to
Washington
,
D.C.
, as the
chief
yeoman
for the
director
of
women
in the
navy
,
Winifred
Quick
. She
remained
there
until
November
1959
,
when
she was
assigned
to the
U.S
.
Navy
Training
Center
in
San
Diego
,
California
.
Pierce
left
San
Diego
for
Moffett
Field
,
California
, in
1961
, and
retired
from there in
1964
.
Pierce
returned
to
Illinois
after
she
retired
from the
navy
, and
worked
in the
Office
of
Research
Development
and
Administration
at
Southern
Illinois
University
for
twenty
years
.
Pierce
retired
from the
university
in the
mid-1980s
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Formal portrait
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
WV0348 Maxine Newcom Pierce Papers
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0348.6.003
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
900814176
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