Title	[Portrait of Louise Nash Dorsett, 1943]
Date	1943
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Formal headshot of Louise N. Dorsett, taken while she was stationed at the Bureau of Ships in Washington, DC, in the spring of 1943.
Veteran's name	Dorsett, Louise Nash
Veteran's biography	Louise Nash Dorsett (1913?-2011) of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1942 to 1945. Louise Nash (1913?-2011) was born in Boulder, Colorado, and raised in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, the daughter of a hydroelectric engineer and a teacher. Nash graduated from high school in Mt. Gilead and then attended Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina, for one year. She transferred to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1934 with a degree in English. She taught school for a short time and then worked for the Carolina Power and Light Company in Raleigh, North Carolina, for six years." Nash joined the WAVES in October 1942. She attended five weeks of basic training at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and was then ordered to the Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C., in December 1942. She primarily performed administrative work, and she remained in Washington until her discharge in December 1945. Louise Nash married Lieutenant Howard Dorsett on 4 January 1943 in Staten Island, New York. The couple settled in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1946 and then moved to Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, in 1947. She passed away on 11 October, 2011.
Place	Washington (D.C.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0017 Louise Nash Dorsett Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0017.6.002
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	900810369

[Portrait of Louise Nash Dorsett, 1943]

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