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Title
[Jean
Holdridge
Reeves
with
indigenous
children
,
1945]
Date
1944
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
American Red Cross
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Red Cross
Item description
Jean
Holdridge
Reeves
and a
fellow
Red
Cross
worker
pose
outside
a
thatched
building
with a
group
of with
indigenous
children
in
either
New
Guinea
or the
Philippines
in
1945
.
Veteran's name
Reeves, Jean Holdridge
Veteran's biography
Jean
Holdridge
Reeves
(b
.
1920)
of
Marion
,
Ohio
,
served
in the
Pacific
as a
member
of the
Red
Cross
from
1944
to
1946
.
Jean
H
.
Reeves
was
born
in
Marion
,
Ohio
, on
27
January
1920
and
moved
to
Bloomington
,
Illinois
, at the
age
of
14
. She
graduated
from
Bloomington
High
School
and then
earned
a
bachelor's
degree
in
home
economics
at
Illinois
Wesleyan
University
.
Reeves
worked
as a
teacher
at
Gads
Hill
Community
Center
in
Chicago
.
Reeves
joined
the
Red
Cross
in
St
.
Louis
,
Missouri
, in
1944
and
reported
for
duty
in
Washington
,
D.C.
, on
October
15
.
After
several
months
of
training
, she was
sent
to
staging
in
San
Francisco
for a
month
before
being
sent
overseas
in
January
1945
.
Reeves
was
stationed
in
New
Guinea
,
where
she
operated
in
recreation
clubs
at
Lae
and
Nadzab
. In
summer
1945
Reeves
was
transferred
to
Clark
Field
in the
Philippines
to
work
in
Red
Cross
canteens.
"
Reeves
was
discharged
from the
Red
Cross
in
spring
1946
, and
married
Thomas
Long
Reeves
, a
soldier
she
met
while
in
New
Guinea
, on
2
March
1946
. The
couple
moved
to
Pittsboro
,
North
Carolina
, and
raised
four
daughters
.
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
WV0383 Jean Holdridge Reeves Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
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.
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reuse
.
Object ID
WV0383.6.001
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
900813691
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