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Title	[Presentation of Certificate of Appointment to the United States Naval Academy to Barbara A. Wujiack]
Date	1980-05-11
Subject headings	United States--History--1969- United States. Navy--Women
Era	Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch	Navy Air Force--Air Force Reserve
Item description	Barbara A. Wujiack and Commander Roger W. Kisiel at Wujiack's Presentation of Certificate of Appointment to the United States Naval Academy.
Veteran's name	Wujciak, Barbara A.
Veteran's biography	Barbara Wujciak (b. 1961) attended the United States Naval Academy from 1980-1981. She enlisted in the United States Air Force Reserves in 2009 . Barbara Wujciak (b. 1961) was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but spent the majority of her adolescence in North Carolina." Wujciak aspired to attend to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from an early age, and was nominated by Democratic U.S. representative Lawrence H. Fountain for an appointment to the Academy, but was initially rejected. After attending The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a year, she was accepted to and began her studies at the Naval Academy in 1980. In 1981, Wujciak was discharged from the Academy on charges of being a lesbian." Subsequently, with the assistance of another service member who had been discharged from the Naval Academy, Wujciak created the United States Naval Academy Out group. She also began serving on the Board of Directors for the Servicemember’s Legal Defense Network." Having already received a degree in optometry, Wujciak joined the United States Air Force Reserves in 2009 as an optometrist at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., and in December 2010 she attended Officer’s School. Wujciak now works as a Blue and Gold Officer, recruiting high school students for the U.S. Naval Academy.
Place	Rocky Mount (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	WV0524 Barbara A. Wujciak Papers
Collection summary	December 2011 oral history interview.
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	WV0524.6.005
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	900815848

[Presentation of Certificate of Appointment to the United States Naval Academy to Barbara A. Wujiack]

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