Title	[Henrietta Lucke, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Portrait of Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke in WAVES uniform, circa 1944.
Veteran's name	Lucke, Henrietta Clodfelter
Veteran's biography	Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke of Greensboro, North Carolina, worked in the biological warfare lab at Camp Detrick, Maryland, as a member of the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) Hospital Corps from June 1943 to April 1946 . Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke was born in Lexington, North Carolina, and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She studied biology and bacteriology at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1939 until 1943." Lucke enlisted in the US. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) after her graduation. She attended basic training at Hunter College in New York in June and July 1943 and then had nine months of medical technology training and corps school at St. Albans Naval Hospital in New York. In May 1944, she was assigned to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, as a biological weapons lab assistant. In August 1945, Lucke was sent to Dispensary No. 1 at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California. A few months later, she was transferred to Navy Research Unit No. 1at the University of California at Berkeley to do more biological weapons work. Lucke was discharged from the WAVES in April 1946, as a chief pharmacist mate . After leaving the WAVES, Lucke used the GI Bill finish undergraduate training, then worked briefly at the Public Health Department in Greensboro before returning to the University of Iowa for a master's degree in zoology. She then taught biology at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, where she met her husband, Bob Lucke. Henrietta Lucke passed away on 3 March 2008.
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	WV0085 Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke 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	WV0085.6.001
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	900810851

[Henrietta Lucke, circa 1944]

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