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Title
[El
Toro
Marine
Air
Station
tower
staff
,
1945]
Date
1945
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Marines--USMC Womens Reserve
Marines--Women Marines
Item description
Dorothy
"
Dottie
"
Griffin
Rice
(second
from
right)
and
fellow
flight
clearance
,
tower
operator
, and
aerologist
staff
pose
in
front
of a
propeller
plane
on the
tarmac
at
El
Toro
Marine
Corps
Air
Station
,
California
, in
1945
.
Veteran's name
Rice, Dorothy Mae Griffin
Veteran's biography
Dorothy
Mae
Griffin
Rice
(1923-2010)
of
New
London
,
Ohio
,
served
primarily
as a
recruiter
in the
Marine
Corps
Women's
Reserve
from
June
1943
to
1945
and from
1950
to
1952
.
After
her
military
service
,
Rice
worked
as a
receptionist
,
transcriber
, and for the
Environmental
Protection
Agency
.
Dorothy
Mae
Griffin
Rice
(1923-2010)
grew
up
in
New
London
,
Ohio
. She
spent
two
years
in the
secretarial
program
at
Mary
Washington
College
in
Fredericksburg
,
Virginia
,
before
joining
her
sister
in the
Marine
Corps
Women's
Reserve
in
June
1943
. In
August
,
Rice
went
to
boot
camp
at
Camp
Lejeune
,
North
Carolina
.
After
boot
camp
and
two
weeks
of
mess
duty
at
Camp
Lejeune
, she was
sent
to
Denver
,
Colorado
, to
work
in
recruiting
.
Rice
remained
there
until
June
1945
,
when
she was
transferred
to the
flight
clearance
office
at the
Marine
Air
Corps
Station
in
El
Toro
,
California
. She was
discharged
as a
corporal
in
November
1945
.
Rice
worked
briefly
for the
Mansfield
,
Ohio
,
airport
before
working
as an
airline
hostess
for
Continental
Airlines
.
When
the
Korean
War
started
in
1950
, she was
working
for
Union
Pacific
Railroad
and
decided
to
rejoin
the
Marines
Corps
Reserves
. She was
stationed
at the
Denver
recruiting
office
and then was
transferred
to
Marine
Corps
Air
Station
Cherry
Point
in
North
Carolina
. In
late
1951
, she was
sent
to the
recruiting
office
in
Oklahoma
City
,
Oklahoma
. She
went
on
inactive
duty
and was
discharged
following
her
marriage
in
1952.
"
Dorothy
Rice
met
Don
Rice
at
Cherry
Point
and they were
married
in
February
1952
.
Don
Rice
remained
in the
Marines
for
thirty
years
, and was
stationed
in
California
,
North
Carolina
,
Florida
,
Hawaii
, and
Japan
.
Dorothy
Rice
worked
as a
receptionist
and
secretary
until
her
children
were
born
.
While
they were in
school
, she
sold
Avon
products
and
later
was a
transcriber
for
Aetna
Life
and
Casualty
.
When
her
husband
retired
in
September
1974
, they
moved
to a
small
farm
in
Raleigh
,
North
Carolina
. In
Raleigh
,
Rice
worked
for the
Office
of
Personnel
Management
and then
spent
ten
years
at the
Environmental
Protection
Agency
in
Durham
. She
retired
at the
age
of
sixty-two
and
started
growing
and
selling
orchids
.
Rice
died
on
23
May
2010
in
Winston
Salem
,
North
Carolina
.
Place
California
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
WV0112 Dorothy Mae Griffin Rice Papers
Rights statement
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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
.
Object ID
WV0112.6.001
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
900811485
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