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Title	[Joe O'Leary and soldier in Wilmington, North Carolina, undated]
Date	Undated
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC Army--WAC
Item description	Joe O'Leary and soldier in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Veteran's name	Wilson, Doris Dickens Hoye
Veteran's biography	Doris Dickens Wilson (b. 1920) of North Carolina served in the WAAC (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps) and the WAC (Women’s Army Corps) during WWII. Wilson earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was a professor of family relations at Bradley University for twenty-one years . Doris Wilson was born in Smithfield, North Carolina, on August 28, 1920. She graduated from high school in Burgaw, North Carolina, in 1937, and for eighteen months worked jobs through the National Youth Administration. She then attended business school in Wilmington, North Carolina, and worked at the Cape Fear Hotel. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wilson began volunteering in the message center of the filter center in Wilmington. Wilson enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) in July of 1942, and was inducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in October. She completed basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and returned to the filter center in Wilmington, where she trained new recruits. She completed Officer Candidate School at Fort Des Moines in May of 1943, reenlisted in the WAC (Women's Army Corps) and was sent to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where she worked in the base library for three months while awaiting assignment. Wilson was then stationed at Hamilton Field, California, where she helped start a passenger station for shuttling people to the base. In the spring of 1944 she was transferred to the Officer’s Promotion Unit in Washington, DC. In November of 1944, she married Stanford Lee Hoye . After her discharge from the WAC in 1945, Wilson moved to West Frankfurt, Illinois, with her husband. They ran an appliance store there before moving to Anna, Illinois. After their divorce, Wilson returned to school and earned her master’s degree from Southern Illinois University in 1960. She taught at the Illinois State Mental Hospital before beginning work as a professor in family relations at Bradley University in Illinois. Wilson earned her Ph.D. in home economics from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1971, and returned to teaching at Bradley. In 1982 she retired from Bradley after twenty-one years and began part-time work as curator of the Peoria Historical Museum. In 1989, she moved to Halifax, North Carolina.
Place	Wilmington (N.C)
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	WV0388 Doris Dickens Wilson Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0388.6.007
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	900814149

[Joe O'Leary and soldier in Wilmington, North Carolina, undated]

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