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Title
[Opening
of
Red
Cross
Club
in
Japan
,
1945]
Date
1945-12-24
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
American Red Cross
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Red Cross
Item description
A
crowd
of
sailors
sit
in
chairs
and on the
floor
for
opening
night
of the
Red
Cross
Club
at the
Naval
Operating
Base
at
Buckner
Bay
(Nakagusuku
Bay)
,
Okanawa
,
Japan
, on
Christmas
Eve
1945.Tex
" and
Mary
Clark
are the
women
seated
on the
front
row
watching
the
Christmas
show
.
Veteran's name
White, Ruth Matthews
Veteran's biography
Ruth
Matthews
White
(d
.
2003)
of
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
,
served
in the
Red
Cross
from
1945
to
1947
.
Ruth
Matthews
White
grew
up
in
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
, and
graduated
in
1939
from
Greensboro
High
School
. She
briefly
worked
at
Belk's
Department
Store
, then
studied
physical
education
at the
Woman's
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
(now
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
,
graduating
in
1943
. She then
got
a
job
teaching
PE
at
Tulane
University
in
New
Orleans
,
Louisiana
.
In
April
1945
,
White
joined
the
Red
Cross
to
work
in
troop
recreation
. In
July
, she
went
to
two
weeks
of
training
in
Washington
,
D.C.
, and then
two
weeks
of
service
club
training
at
Camp
Patrick
Henry
,
Virginia
. She was then
sent
to
Camp
Stoneman
,
California
, for
departure
to
Manila
,
Philippines
,
where
she
opened
a
Red
Cross
club
. In
November
1945
,
White
volunteered
to
go
to
Okinawa
,
Japan
. There she
help
set
up
a
Red
Cross
club
at the
naval
operating
base
(NOB)
at
Buckner
Bay
, and then
six
months
later
, in the
summer
of
1946
, she
moved
to the
air
force's
Club
Doolittle
, also on
Okinawa
,
near
Kadena
.
After
suffering
two
severe
cases
of
pneumonia
,
White
resigned
from the
Red
Cross
in the
summer
of
1947
. She
returned
to
North
Carolina
and
started
Camp
Awaniko
near
Blowing
Rock
,
North
Carolina
, with her
Red
Cross
friend
Nancy
Wrenn
.
Ruth
White
died
in
November
2003
.
Place
Okinawa
Island
(Japan)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
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
WV0089 Ruth White Papers
Rights statement
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.
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reuse
.
Object ID
WV0089.6.002
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
900810860
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