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Title
[Doris
Wofford
Armenaki
,
circa
1945]
Date
1944
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Cadet Nurse Corps
Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description
Formal
portrait
of
Doris
Armenaki
in
Army
Nurse
Corps
uniform
in
1944
or
1945
.
Veteran's name
Armenaki, Doris Wofford
Veteran's biography
Doris
Wofford
Armenaki
(1923-2013)
of
Cornelia
,
Georgia
,
served
in the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
and the
Army
Nurse
Corps
during
World
War
II
. A
career
nurse
,
Amenaki
also
served
as an
instructor
in the
School
of
Nursing
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro
from
1975
to
1992
.
Doris
Wofford
Armenaki
of
Cornelia
,
Georgia
, was
born
on
3
November
1923
, the
daughter
of a
homemaker
and a
hardware
businessman
.
Raised
in
northeast
Georgia
,
Wofford
graduated
from
Cornelia
High
School
in
1940
and
North
Georgia
College
, a
predominantly
male
military
school
, in
1942
. She was
accepted
at the
Georgia
Baptist
Hospital
School
of
Nursing
(now
part
of
Mercer
University)
and
began
her
training
there in
June
1942
.
Armenaki
joined
the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
in
late
1943
or
early
1944
.
After
completing
her
training
, she was
sent
to
Kennedy
General
Hospital
in
Memphis
,
Tennessee
, for
six
months
from
January
to
June
1945
.
Armenaki
then
accepted
a
commission
for the
Army
Nurse
Corps
and
completed
basic
training
at
Camp
Rucker
,
Alabama
.
After
one
month
of
basic
,
Armenaki
went
to
Lawson
General
Hospital
in
Atlanta
. She
remained
at
Lawson
until
the
summer
of
1946
,
when
she was
transferred
to the
hospital
at
Fort
Dix
,
New
Jersey
. She was
separated
from
service
in
November
1946
as a
second
lieutenant
.
In the
spring
of
1946
,
Doris
married
Thomas
Armenaki
. She
worked
as a
nurse
for
several
Atlanta
doctors
and
dentists
before
the
Armenakis
moved
to
Greensboro
in
1956
.
After
residing
in
Virginia
and
Tennessee
,
Doris
Armenaki
returned
to
Greensboro
in
June
1971
after
her
husband's
death
. She
attended
nursing
school
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro
(UNCG)
from
1971
to
1974
and then
completed
her
master's
degree
in
nursing
at the
University
of
Alabama
in
Birmingham
in
1975
. In the
fall
of that
year
Armenaki
became
an
assistant
professor
of
medical-surgical
nursing
at
UNCG
. She
retired
from
teaching
in
1992
.
Armenaki
died
in
Greensboro
on
5
February
,
2013
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Formal portrait
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
WV0079 Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection, 1944 - 1945
Collection summary
Artifacts
, an
oral
history
interview
, and a
photograph
document
Armenaki's
service
and
nursing
experiences
.
Artifacts
include
dog
tags
,
identification
materials
, an
Army
Nurse
Corps
cloisonne
pin
, and
army
patches
.
Oral
history
interview
documents
Armenaki's
early
education
, her
military
service
, her
personal
life
after
the
war
, and her
nurses
training
and
teaching
at The
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro
from the
1970s
to the
1990s
.
Specific
subjects
include
nurses
training
, her
work
with
amputees
and
prisoners
of
war
returning
from
Europe
and the
Pacific
, and her
post-war
nursing
career
.
One
black-and-white
photograph
illustrates
Doris
Wofford
Armenaki
in
uniform
.
Series/grouping
2: Photograph, c. 1944-1945
Box
1
Folder
3: Photograph
Finding aid link
http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=259
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
WV0079.6.001
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
900811155
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