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Title	[Portrait of Margaret Marian Smith, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Marines--USMC Womens Reserve
Item description	Formal portrait of Margaret Marian Smith in Marine Corps Women's Reserve summer service (green and white seersucker) uniform, 1945-1946.
Veteran's name	Smith, Margaret Marian Smith
Veteran's biography	Margaret Marian Smith (b. 1925) of Anderson, South Carolina, worked in the War Department from 1943 to 1945, and then served as an aide to General Alexander Archer Vandegriftt, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, as a member of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve from 1945 to 1946. Smith later worked for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1963 to 1994 as an assistant to the chancellor . Margaret Marian Smith was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in 1925. She graduated from Lebanon High School in 1941 and entered Anderson College, where she received an associate's degree in business. Following completion of the business program, she took the Civil Service Exam and was assigned to the Department of Civilian Retirement Records of the War Department in Washington, D.C., in June 1943. She was later transferred to the Decorations and Awards Branch of the War Department, where she worked for General Emmett Adams in the Pentagon . Smith enlisted in the Marines Corps on 13 February 1945. She attended boot camp at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina, and then was sent back to Washington, where she became aide to General Alexander Archer Vandegriftt, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. On 19 June 1946, Smith was discharged from the Marine Corps, but continued in her same position as a civilian through 1947. She returned to Anderson and worked as and aide to the superintendent of La France Industries textile plant until after her marriage to Mays Smith." The Smiths lived in several North Carolina cities before settling permanently in Greensboro, where Margaret Smith began work at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1963. She was hired as a part-time aid to Chancellor Otis Singletary, but went full-time in 1965. She continued to serve in the chancellor's office when Singletary's successor, James Ferguson, was appointed in 1967. Smith moved to Wallace, North Carolina, in 1970, but returned to work for Ferguson in 1972. She then served as an administrative assistant in the office of the dean of the School of Business. Following the appointment of William Moran in 1979, she returned to the chancellor's office to become his aide. Smith retired from UNCG around 1994 and continued to live in Greensboro.
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	WV0036 Margaret Marian Smith Papers
Collection summary	The collection contains a 1999 oral history interview; a spruce green enlisted bell crown hat with white cord and gold enlisted USMC hat badge; and a circa 1945 summer enlisted spruce green and white seersucker short sleeve uniform jacket and skirt.
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	WV0036.6.001
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	900810921

[Portrait of Margaret Marian Smith, circa 1945]

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