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[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
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