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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

[Doris Wofford Armenaki, circa 1945]

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