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Title	[Captain Martha Boger receiving a commendation, 1955]
Date	1955-05-11
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 Korean War, 1950-1953 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946) Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963) Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	Captain Martha Boger, on left, receives congratulations and a letter of appreciation at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, from Brigadier General James P. Cooney, commanding officer of the Medical Field Service School, for her outstanding services as a physical therapist at the school, 1955.
Veteran's name	Boger, Martha
Veteran's biography	Martha Magruder Boger (1915-2000) of Albemarle, North Carolina, served as a physical therapist in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) and Army Medical Specialist Corps from circa 1945 to 1965 . Martha Magruder Boger (1915-2000) was born and raised in Albemarle, North Carolina. She attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1936 with a degree in physical education. She then taught health and physical education in an elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, for nine years." Around 1945, Boger was recruited to go to the army's physical therapy school. She was inducted into the WAC and went to basic training in Des Moines, Iowa. She was then sent to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado, for a year of physical therapy training. Upon completion of this training, she was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Specialist Corps, which included dietitians, physical therapists, and occupational therapists, and was not affiliated with the WAC. She was stationed at many places during her twenty-year career in the army, including Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Governor's Island, New York; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; Army Medical Field Service School in San Antonio, Texas; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Honolulu, Hawaii; Munich, Germany; and Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Following her discharge from the army as a major, Boger was active in civic organizations including Meals on Wheels and the Mental Health Association. She passed away on 6 June 2000.
Type	Image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0032 Martha Boger Papers
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	WV0032.6.001
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	952960402

[Captain Martha Boger receiving a commendation, 1955]

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