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Title	[Geneva Spratt Craig and friend pose in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Geneva Spratt Craig and friend, Sybil, pose in Williamsburg, Virginia, attired in WAVES dress uniform with lapel insignia. Craig's rank insignia indicates she is a Second Class Petty Officer Yeoman, friend's rank insignia indicates she is a First Class Petty Officer Yeoman.
Veteran's name	Craig, Geneva Spratt
Veteran's biography	Geneva Spratt Craig (b. 1919) served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) from 1943-1946 . Geneva Spratt Craig was born in Dysartsville, McDowell County, North Carolina in 1919. She graduated from high school in 1937, attending Asheville Normal and Teacher’s College and graduating in 1941. She then worked as a teacher in Wake County, North Carolina, until she decided to enlist in the WAVES in the summer of 1943. One of her older sisters, Sybil, enlisted in the WAVES around the same time. Upon enlisting, Craig was sent to Bronx, New York for basic training. She and her sister were then assigned to Cedar Falls, Iowa for clerical training. Upon completing the training, Craig was stationed in Arlington, Virginia, working in Naval Personnel, where she worked until she left the WAVES in 1946 . After receiving her discharge, Craig returned to High Point, North Carolina, and began working as a teacher. She later used her GI Bill to obtain her master’s degree at the Teacher’s College of Columbia University, and again returned to High Point, where she met her husband.
Place	Williamsburg (Va.)
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	WV0505 Geneva Spratt Craig 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	WV0505.6.007
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	900815323

[Geneva Spratt Craig and friend pose in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1944]

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