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Title	[Beverly Sheppe sitting on a wall, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	Yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Beverly Barksdale Sheppe sits on a wall overlooking a courtyard wearing her Red Cross duty uniform, circa 1945.
Veteran's name	Sheppe, Beverly Barkesdale
Veteran's biography	Beverly Sheppe, of Greensboro, North Carolina, had a career in social work that included service overseas with the Red Cross from 1942 to 1948 . Beverly Barksdale Sheppe was born in Hopewell, Virginia, and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating from Greensboro Senior High School, she studied sociology at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1940. Sheppe then did one year of graduate studies in social work at Tulane University before spending nine months in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, welfare department . In 1942, Sheppe joined the Red Cross in Alexandria, Virginia. She served as assistant field director for two years in three different hospitals: Camp Lee in Petersburg, Virginia; Ashford General Hospital in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; and Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1944, Sheppe was assigned to the 120th General Hospital, which traveled from San Francisco to Finschhafen, New Guinea, on the Clip Fontaine. After six months, Sheppe followed the invasion of the Philippines and was sent to an evacuation hospital in Lingayen Gulf, and then to the 120th Evacuation Hospital at Tagaytay Ridge, Philippines. Sheppe returned to the United States at the end of World War II. She was later sent to Germany, and served in hospitals in Augsburg, Berlin, and Bremerhaven between 1946 and 1948 . After leaving the Red Cross in 1948, Sheppe earned a master’s degree from the New York School of Social Work and was briefly employed by the Veterans Administration before accepting a teaching position at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She married and had two children.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0103 Beverly Barksdale Sheppe 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	WV0103.6.002
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	900811783

[Beverly Sheppe sitting on a wall, circa 1945]

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