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Title	[Marguerite Clodfelter in winter uniform, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Cadet Nurse Corps
Item description	Marguerite Clodfelter in Cadet Nurse Corps gray winter uniform and beret, 1943-1945
Veteran's name	Clodfelter, Marguerite V.
Veteran's biography	Marguerite Clodfelter, originally of Alberta, Canada, served as a nurse in the Cadet Nurse Corps from 1944 to 1945 and later at hospitals in Durham and Whiteville, NC . Marguerite Clodfelter was born in Alberta, Canada, but moved to upstate New York at the age of ten. She attended Belleville Academy and then moved to Watertown, New York, and graduated from a school in Adams, New York." Clodfelter enrolled in the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944. She spent an academic year taking classes at Plattsburgh State Teachers College in Plattsburgh, New York, and then went to the House of the Good Samaritan in Watertown, New York, for clinical training. She served there for the remainder of the war, and was certified as a registered nurse." Following the end of World War II, Clodfelter ended her affiliation with the Cadet Nurse Corps. She married Bob Clodfelter in June 1947 and moved to North Carolina, where she nursed at Watts Hospital in Durham while her husband attended law school at Duke University. She also worked briefly in a country hospital in Whiteville, North Carolina. Clodfelter has been an member of the League of Women Voters, the board of the Winston-Salem YWCA, and is a supporter of environmentalist causes.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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	WV0024 Marguerite V. Clodfelter 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	WV0024.6.003
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	900810512

[Marguerite Clodfelter in winter uniform, circa 1944]

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