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[Red Cross Clubmobile hat, 1944]

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Title	[Red Cross Clubmobile hat, 1944]
Date	1944
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	American Red Cross blue-gray visored hat with front bow, made by Debenhams and Freebody of London. Hat has shirring on the right side and Red Cross pin center on bow. Worn with blue battledress jacket and trousers. This hat worn by Muriel Coykendall Kiser from 1944 to 1945.
Veteran's name	Kiser, Muriel Coykendall
Veteran's biography	Muriel Coykendall Kiser (1925-2007) a North Carolina school teacher, worked in European service clubs with the American Red Cross from 1944 to 1945 . Muriel Coykendall Kiser was born in upstate New York but grew up in Montana, California, New York, and Florida. After graduating from high school in Florida in 1939, Kiser enrolled at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She graduated with an education major and a double minor in political science and Spanish in 1943. After graduation, Kiser taught primary grades at Hartsell School in Concord, North Carolina, for a year, in North Wilkesboro for three years, and one year in Greensboro." Kiser took a fundraising job at the Red Cross headquarters in Atlanta while she worked to meet their weight requirement. When the Red Cross accepted her in 1944, she went through training in Washington, D.C., and then was sent to New York and Blacksburg, Virginia. She traveled to her first assignment as an assistant at a service club for the 8th Air Force in Boxstead, England on D-Day, 6 June 1944. In April 1945 Kiser was transferred briefly to France before getting an assignment in Belgium, where she ran a service club for the 9th Air Force. Her service ended in December of 1945 . Kiser returned to North Carolina after World War II and resumed her teaching career in High Point for a semester. She then returned to teaching in North Wilkesboro, where she remained until the 1950s. For two years she taught in Cary, North Carolina, followed by Asheville, North Carolina. In 1972 she met her husband, Glenn Kiser.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
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	WV0078 Muriel Coykendall Kiser Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0078.8.001
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	900817445

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