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Title	[Elsie Prevatte Picket signing document, 1962]
Date	1962-04-14
Subject headings	Cold War United States. Army--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	WAC Elsie Prevatte Pickett, seated at a desk, prepares to sign document on 14 April 1962. The desk appears to belong to Brigadier General B.E. Powell. According to the caption on the back of the photo, Prevatte, as Post Entertainment Officer and Custodian of the Youth Activities Fund for Fort Bragg, is signing a contract for the "The Royal Blue Shows" Carnival sponsored by the Youth Activities Council.
Veteran's name	Pickett, Elsie Prevatte
Veteran's biography	Elsie Privatte Pickett (b. 1936), a 1959 graduate of Woman's College (now UNCG), served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1959 to 1964 . Elsie P. Pickett of Chapel Hill was born December 25th, 1936 in rural Robeson County, North Carolina. She spent her early life attending school in Lumberton, North Carolina, where she worked for the city’s recreation department. Upon graduation from Lumberton High School she immediately enrolled at the Women’s College in Greensboro, North Carolina." Initially majoring in an interdisciplinary recreation program, Pickett graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in three years. Pickett then enrolled in the master’s program of recreation at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In 1959, before finishing her graduate thesis, she accepted an officer’s commission with the United States Women’s Army Corps [WAC]." Pickett underwent officer basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Upon graduation, she accepted a position as a platoon commander attached to the WAC training battalion at Fort McClellan. After the death of her stepfather, Pickett arranged to be transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina." While at Fort Bragg, Pickett held several simultaneous positions: including an assistant to the Deputy Chief of Personnel (G-1), staff officer for the 18th Airborne Corps, and supervising officer for the base entertainment division. On October 24, 1962, after being denied discharge, Pickett reported to Bremerhaven, Germany, to serve as a WAC company commander." After impressing a general officer attached to United States Army Communications Zone, Europe [USACOMZEUR], Pickett was transferred to the headquarters of the command in Orleans, France, to serve as an officer attached to the command’s G-1. While at USACOMZEUR, Pickett was tasked with finding creative ways in which to improve morale and lower infraction rates at the twenty subordinate installations under the prevue of the communications command." Pickett served at USACOMZEUR from late 1962 through 1964. In 1963, while attached to USACOMZEUR, Pickett was married to her husband. After completing her assignment at USACOMZEUR Pickett left the military and become an instructor of sociology at the University of Central Arkansas.
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	WV0462 Elsie Prevatte Pickett Papers
Collection summary	The collection includes a 2009 oral history interview, photographs, a postcard, press release.
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. US Army Photo by SP/4 Randall Pugh, Post Signal Photo Lab, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Object ID	WV0462.6.001
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	900815334

[Elsie Prevatte Picket signing document, 1962]

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