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Title |
[Denise Champion and friend] |
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Date |
Undated |
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Subject headings |
United States. Navy--Women
United States--History--1945-
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Era |
Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989) |
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Service branch |
Navy--WAVES
Navy
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Item description |
Denise Champion, on right, poses with a friend. |
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Veteran's name |
Champion, Denise DiBetta Mathis |
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Veteran's biography |
Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion (b. 1953) served in the United States Navy WAVES, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, from 1976 to 1980 .
Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion was born 8 May 1953 in Los Angeles, California. In 1970, her family relocated to Sacramento, California, where she graduated from high school in 1971. Champion then attended Los Angeles Community College, focusing on home economics. Afterwards, at the suggestion of her father, Champion joined the United States Navy WAVES on a delayed entry program .
In June 1976, Champion attended basic training at Naval Training Center Orlando, Florida. She was then assigned to Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. At this duty station Champion worked as officer personnel in the administration building, typing up temporary duty, or TDY, orders for soldiers. Her duties also included standing watch in the women's barracks .
Champion left the U.S. Navy in April of 1980. In the years following she had a daughter. She currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
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Type |
Image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0574 Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion Papers |
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Collection summary |
December 2014 oral history interview, enlisted white combination hat, 3 shoulder patches, 2 Newspapers Golden Eagle from NAS Lemoore June 16 and 23, 1977, awards and citations, photograph album, 18 June, 1976 copy of Rudder, the Orlando, Florida Naval Training Center Yearbook,military papers, shadow box of insignia, prints, Triangle Seagals application, and materials, including a challenge coin and photographs from the 1997 dedication from WIMSA (Women in Military Service for America Memorial). |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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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. |
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Object ID |
WV0574.6.002 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
907985250 |
