Title	Seps: important to the fleet [1962]
Date	1962-04-20
Subject headings	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Navy--Women
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Article in the U.S. Naval Station Long Beach newsletter, the Seahorse, about the Separation Office, directed by Shirley Ann Thacker (Lewis), published 20 April 1962.
Veteran's name	Lewis, Shirley Ann Thacker
Veteran's biography	Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis (b. 1938) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1961 to 1965, followed by a career as a school counselor . S. Ann Thacker Lewis was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on 15 October 1938. She graduated from high school at Curry School in 1957 and then attended Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG), earning a degree in physical education . Lewis joined a WAVES recruit program while in college. After graduating, she completed Officer Candidate School at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island. She was chosen to be a legal officer and attended Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island, and was then assigned to Long Beach, California. In addition to defense counsel and prosecutorial duties there, she also worked as a separations officer, public information officer, communications watch officer, and in registered publications. In 1963, Lewis received orders to Wahiawa, Hawaii, where she served as a legal officer and trainer. She met her husband, Chuck Lewis, on a beach in Hawaii, and resigned her commission in January 1965 due to pregnancy . Lewis later earned a masters’ degree in counseling and worked for thirty years as a school counselor.
Type	text
Original format	clippings
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [Seahorse]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0405 Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis Papers
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Object ID	WV0405.2.006
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	900816462

Seps: important to the fleet [1962]

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