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Title	[St. Louis SPAR basketball team, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Coast Guard
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Coast Guard--SPARS
Item description	St. Louis 9nd SPAR Basketball Team, circa 1944. Players include (front, left to right) Mary J. Malone, Lucy Phillips Pugh, Marianne Cohan, Anne Galagher, (back) Lt. Auleen Kirkhart, Madeline Fagan, Doris Hinks, Carol Dusterwinkle, Mary Levorchick, and Alma Hickey.
Veteran's name	Pugh, Lucy Phillips
Veteran's biography	Lucy Pugh (1922-2014) of Bennett, North Carolina, performed sentry and switchboard duties as a member of the Coast Guard SPARS (Semper Paratus-Always Ready) from 1943 to 1945 . Lucy Pugh was born in Bennett, North Carolina on 14 September, 1922.She graduated from a local high school in 1940 and then went to work at cotton mills in nearby towns of Coleridge and Robbins . Pugh enlisted in the Coast Guard SPARS in Fall 1943 at a recruiting station in Lexington. She attended basic training in West Palm Beach, Florida, and then in January 1944 was sent to St. Louis, Missouri, where she initially did maintenance work in a machine shop. Pugh was transferred shortly thereafter to sentry duty at the barracks and also performed switchboard and elevator operating duties. In fall 1944 she began work in the 9th District Headquarters, where she performed the same duties until her discharge in the summer of 1945 . Pugh married in 1949. She worked at a mill in Siler City, North Carolina, and then in 1947 went to work for Sears-Roebuck in Greensboro, North Carolina, from which she retired in 1960. She remained active in SPARS reunions. Pugh died in her hometown of Bennett in 2014.
Place	St. Louis (Mo.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
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	WV0074 Lucy Phillips Pugh 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	WV0074.6.003
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	900811223

[St. Louis SPAR basketball team, circa 1944]

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