Title	[Jean Fasse in Indian dress, circa 1946]
Date	1946
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Jean Fasse posing for portrait in traditional Indian dress in Calcutta. Front of photo reads "This is how the Indians dress. Jean in India."
Veteran's name	Fasse, Mayme Jean Moore
Veteran's biography	M. Jean Moore Fasse (1908-2008) of Lillington, North Carolina, served in the American Red Cross during WWII, and later the U.S. Army Special Services, from 1946 to 1963. Mayme Jean Moore Fasse was born in Lillington, North Carolina, in 1908 and was raised on a farm nearby. She attended Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina, where she lived with families as a nanny until she graduated in 1931. She then worked in a tobacco factory and a local hospital. Fasse enrolled at Fayetteville State Teachers College (now Fayetteville State University) and earned a teaching degree. Her first teaching job was in a one-room school in Goldsboro, North Carolina. After deciding she didn’t want to teach, she returned to FSTC and attended summer school. She and a friend then decided to move to New York. After only a year she returned to Fayetteville and teaching. Fasse worked at the Robeson County Training School in Maxton, North Carolina, in the late-1930s and early 1940s . Fasse joined the American Red Cross in 1944 and was sent to Washington, D.C., for training. She was assigned to a unit prepared for overseas duty and traveled to California to depart for Calcutta, India. Fasse was stationed along the Lido Road, including a short time in Burma. After the jungle bases were closed, she became the head of the Cosmos Club, a Red Cross club in Calcutta. She returned to the United States in August of 1946, landing in New York City. Fasse immediately signed up for the U.S. Army Special Services in order to run recreation clubs in Europe. She was sent to Frankfurt, Germany, for training, she was assigned as a club director in Mannheim. Almost six years later she was transferred to Füssen for a few months, and then Höchberg, and then Munich. In the early 1950s Fasse was sent to France, where she worked in clubs in Tours and Toul. Fasse married in 1963 and left the Special Services. The Fasses remained in Europe until 1990. Jean Fasse died on 21 June 2008.
Place	Kolkata (India)
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	WV0390 M. Jean Moore Fasse 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	WV0390.6.006
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	900814757

[Jean Fasse in Indian dress, circa 1946]

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