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Title	[Jane Beetham Jones at information booth, circa 1955]
Date	1955
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Marines--Women Marines Marines
Item description	Jane Beetham Jones (right) and a fellow Woman Marine stand at an information booth for the 5th Infantry Battalion at an open house for Brodhead Armory in Detroit, Michigan, circa 1955. Both women wear the Women Marines green and white seersucker summer uniform and matching garrison cap. The Marine Corps emblem is on the front of the booth.
Veteran's name	Jones, Jane Caroline Beetham
Veteran's biography	Jane Beetham Jones (1927-2011) of Detroit, Michigan, served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1952 to 1980 . Jane Beetham Jones was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. In 1945 she graduated from Redford High School, where she was a member of the Civil Air Patrol, and briefly worked as a waitress on U.S. Coast Guard-supervised boats. Jones then attended the University of Minnesota on a scholarship for two years, while working summers at the "Detroit News". She remained at the newspaper as a full time replacement staffer until 1953, and also attended the University of Detroit for two years . Jones joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 5th Infantry Battalion, in 1952 in Detroit. She attended boot camp at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, over the course of three summers. She continued to have summer tours, usually in the Public Information Office, at bases including San Diego, California; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Cherry Point, North Carolina; St. Louis, Missouri; and Tustin and El Toro, California. She also taught military history while stationed at Quantico, Virginia, and finished her career with the Air Reserve at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan, retiring in 1980 . Jane Jones met her husband while with the Marine Corps in Detroit and married in 1960. Until his death in 1972, the Jones were stationed together during summer tours . In between summer duties, Jones worked at a wine shop during the late 1950s; doing public relations for a glass replacement company from 1960 to 1965; and in public relations for Rockwell International from 1965 to 1970. After Jones left the reserves in 1980, she worked in public information for the City of Detroit until retiring from that position in 1992. Jones then relocated to Durham, North Carolina. She passed away on 1 September, 2011.
Place	Detroit (Mich.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Work 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	WV0356 Jane Beetham Jones Papers
Collection summary	The collection contains a 2006 Oral History; Photographs; Newsletters, clipping and scrapbook. Newsletters and clipping contain articles that feature Jones in the Marines. The scrapbook contains photographs, additional clippings, and papers related to Jones's military service. Nineteen black-and-white photographs show a recruiting event at Broadhead Armory in Detroit in the early 1950s; a Marine Corps League convention; and Jones on the job in the late 1960s.
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	WV0356.6.005
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	900813948

[Jane Beetham Jones at information booth, circa 1955]

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