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Title	[Portrait of Paula Trivette, 1987]
Date	1987-12-06
Subject headings	Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 United States. Army--Women
Era	Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Portrait of Paula Trivette from 1987. She wears the Army Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and National Defense Service Medal.
Veteran's name	Trivette, Paula K. Jackan
Veteran's biography	Paula K. Jackan Trivette (b. 1953) served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1975-1993. Paula K. Jackan Trivette was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin on March 14, 1953. She obtained a college scholarship through the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing Program, and attended Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wisconsin for two years before going to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. to complete her degree. After graduating from the nursing program, Trivette was commissioned as a first lieutenant and went to San Antonio, Texas for basic training in 1975. She was then stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio until 1978, during which time she worked in a surgical ICU unit and also met and married her husband, also a servicemember in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Trivette was then assigned to Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs, Colorado as first an assistant head nurse and then head nurse. She had her first son while at Fort Carson before being assigned to Frankfurt Army Medical Center and Frankfurt Army 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, with her husband also stationed in Germany. While in Germany, Trivette was promoted from major to captain. Upon returning to the United States, Trivette’s assignment was Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As her assignment there drew to a close, a White House nurse position became available, and Trivette interviewed for and was given that position. She worked as a White House nurse from 1987 for President Reagan to 1993 for George H.W. Bush. She then retired from military service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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	WV0512 Paula K. Jackan Trivette Papers
Collection summary	March 2011 oral history interview, photographs and press clippings about Trivette, as well as a student nurse cap.
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	WV0512.6.007
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	900814952

[Portrait of Paula Trivette, 1987]

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