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Title	Bay girl returns to Vietnam for 2nd Red Cross duty tour [1968]
Date	1968
Subject headings	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 American Red Cross
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Article from a Cleveland, Ohio, area newspaper announcing Linda Morgan Maini's second tour of duty in Vietnam with the Red Cross in 1968. She is pictured with two other Red Cross workers behind a canteen wagon.
Veteran's name	Maini, Linda Kay Morgan
Veteran's biography	Linda Morgan Maini (b. 1943) of Cleveland, Ohio, served in Vietnam as a member of the Red Cross from 1965 to 1969 . Linda Morgan Maini was born in Buffalo, New York, on 19 July 1943 and raised primarily in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School in 1961 and attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. After graduating in 1965 she enrolled in the Peace Corps and completed training in Puerto Rico, but decided the program was not right for her . Maini then enrolled in the Red Cross. After completing a brief training session in Washington, D.C, in early 1966, she was sent to I Corps in Da Nang, Vietnam, to run the SRAO [Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas] program. Maini was also stationed in Lai Khe and Di An where she operated recreation clubs and clubmobile programming for the III Corps and 1st Infantry Division. Maini returned to the States in early 1967 and was reassigned to recreation work at Valley Forge Army Hospital. She was sent back to Vietnam in September of 1968 and stationed at the 12th Evacuation Hospital in Cu Chi, again coordinating recreation activities. While she was there she met her future husband, Paul Maini, an army pilot. She returned to the States in November of 1969 . In January of 1970, Linda and Paul Maini were married. The couple moved with Paul’s assignment to Fort Knox, Kentucky, and then to Tallahassee, Florida. Five years later he was sent to Korea, where Linda taught English for a number of Korean companies. They returned to Newport, Rhode Island, and then Salinas, California, where Maini worked as an aide to county supervisors. They moved to Lexington, Virginia, in 1982 and Maini worked at the George C. Marshall Foundation. She retired as the vice president of the organization after twenty years. The Mainis had two daughters, Tracy and Shannon.
Type	text
Original format	clippings
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0406 Linda K. Morgan Maini Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Additional rights information	COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0406.2.003
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	900816494

Bay girl returns to Vietnam for 2nd Red Cross duty tour [1968]

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