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Title
[Four
WAVES
and a
sailor
,
circa
1946]
Date
1946
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
Five
U.S
.
Navy
members
pose
outside
a
building
at the
Naval
Air
Station
in
Corpus
Christi
,
Texas
,
circa
1946
. The
WAVES
are
identified
as
colleagues
of
Francis
B
.
Bailey
,
who
worked
in the
base's
dispersing
and
payroll
offices
.
Veteran's name
Bailey, Frances Barringer
Veteran's biography
Frances
B
.
Bailey
(b
.
1920)
of
Concord
,
North
Carolina
,
worked
in
supply
,
disbursing
, and
payroll
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
April
1943
to
October
1946
. She then
resumed
her
career
in
education
as a
math
teacher
and
school
administrator
in the
Carolinas
.
Frances
Barringer
Bailey
(b
.
1920)
grew
up
in
Concord
,
North
Carolina
, and
graduated
from
Concord
High
School
in
1936
. She
attended
Pfeiffer
Junior
College
in
Misenheimer
,
North
Carolina
, for
two
years
, and then
transferred
to the
Woman's
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
(now
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
.
After
graduating
with a
bachelor's
degree
in
math
in
1940
, she
taught
in
Troy
,
North
Carolina
, for
two
years
.
After
six
weeks
of
training
at
N.C
.
State
University
,
Bailey
went
to
Baltimore
,
Maryland
, to
work
in the
civil
service
inspecting
gas
mask
gauges.
" In
April
1943
,
Bailey
joined
the
WAVES
and
boarded
a
train
for
Massachusetts
. She
attended
basic
training
at
Smith
College
for
six
weeks
and then
supply
school
at
Radcliffe
College
.
Bailey
was
first
assigned
to
Montauk
Point
,
New
York
, but
went
instead
to the
Great
Lakes
Naval
Training
Station
in
Great
Lakes
,
Illinois
,
where
she
worked
in
receiving
and
payroll
. In the
summer
of
1945
she was
sent
to
Corpus
Christi
,
Texas
,
where
she
worked
in the
dispersing
and
payroll
offices
.
Bailey
was
discharged
from the
WAVES
as a
lieutenant
on
4
October
1946
.
After
a
vacation
to the
West
Coast
,
Bailey
returned
to
Chicago
and
worked
for
A.B
.
Dick
, a
mimeograph
company
. She
later
moved
to
Chapel
Hill
,
North
Carolina
,
where
she
met
and
married
William
E
.
Bailey
in
1950
. The
couple
moved
to
Greensboro
,
where
Frances
Baily
taught
at
Greensboro
High
School
. She
continued
her
career
in
education
in
Lancaster
,
South
Carolina
, as a
teacher
and
administrator
, and as a
math
program
supervisor
. She
later
moved
to
Florence
,
South
Carolina
.
Place
Corpus
Christi
(Tex.)
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
WV0069 Frances Barringer Bailey 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
WV0069.6.010
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
900810915
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