[Blanche Holt Gwyn]
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Title |
[Blanche Holt Gwyn] |
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Date |
1943 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Navy--WAVES |
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Item description |
Formal Potrait of Blanche Holt Gwyn |
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Veteran's name |
Gwyn, Blanche Holt |
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Veteran's biography |
Blanche H. Gwyn of Mount Airy, North Carolina, served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from July 1944 until April 1946 and in the Naval Reserve for twenty-three years .
Gwyn grew up in Mount Airy, North Carolina and graduated from Mount Airy High School. She earned a bachelor of science degree in secretarial administration from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1936. She worked as a secretary in Mount Airy, but in 1939, she took a job with the Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport, Tennessee .
In July 1944, Gwyn took military leave from her job to join the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). She attended two months of Naval Reserve Midshipman School at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her first duty station was at the Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C. There she expedited equipment delivery to damaged ships. On 20 April 1946, she was discharged from the WAVES .
Gwyn spent twenty-three years in the Naval Reserve, first in a composite unit in New York and then in a telecom censorship unit in naval intelligence. In 1946, Gwyn went back to Eastman, this time working in advertising in New York City and later transferring back to Tennessee. She also attended Columbia University in New York City for a bachelor of arts degree and graduate studies in business. After retiring, Gwyn lived in Fancy Gap, Virginia, before returning to Mount Airy. |
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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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Language |
en |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0031 Blanche Holt Gwyn Papers |
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Collection summary |
Summer Blue Cord Uniform (Jacket and Skirt), ca. 1950s; White Shirt; Navy Uniform (Jacket and Skirt), ca. 1950s; Black Tie; Hat and photograph. |
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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 |
WV0031.6.001 |
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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 |
971329302 |
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