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Title	[Daphine Doster Mastroianni in Fiji, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Daphine Mastroianni poses in her summer beige dress uniform with visored hat in front of a tropical plant in Fiji, circa 1943.
Veteran's name	Mastroianni, Daphine Doster
Veteran's biography	Daphine Doster Mastroianni (1906-2000) of Monroe, North Carolina, served in New Zealand, Fiji, and India with the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) from 1942 to 1945. After the war, Mastroianni continued her nursing career with the U.S. Public Health Service, the Arkansas Health Department, and later as dean of University of Arkansas School of Nursing . Daphine Doster Mastroianni was born 7 October 1906 in Monroe, North Carolina, to a railroad worker and a nurse, and was raised in Gibson, North Carolina. She graduated from high school in 1923 and then attended the North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), where she studied music. After graduating in 1927, Mastroianni worked as a music teacher at Cherryville High School and later Kings Mountain High School. She enrolled at John Hopkins School of Nursing in 1933 and graduated in 1936. She worked as a surgical nurse for three years in the operating room of John Hopkins and later Berea College Hospital in Berea, Kentucky. Mastroianni also did public nursing in Richmond, Kentucky, and Bowling Green, Kentucky . Mastroianni joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1942 with a unit from Johns Hopkins Hospital, the 18th General Hospital. She went through basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and then served as a surgical nurse in New Zealand and Fiji from 1942 to 1945. In 1945 she was transferred to Calcutta, India. She returned to the U.S. and was briefly assigned to Fort Devens, Massachusetts . Following her discharge, Mastroianni received her master's in public health from the Minnesota School of Public Health. She worked for twenty-four years with the U.S. Public Health Service providing loans and personnel to aid states. During that time she worked for two years in the Arkansas Health Department. From 1952 to 1953 she served as acting dean of the school of nursing at the University of Arkansas while developing a four-year bachelor of science program in nursing. In 1992 she married Joe Mastroianni, whom she had originally met during World War II. Daphine Doster Mastroianni died on 3 August 2000.
Place	Fiji
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	WV0038 Daphine Doster Mastroianni Papers
Collection summary	16 February 1999 Oral History Interview; Photographs: Newspaper Clippings; copies of correspondence, 1942-1945; book; L.O.D. Yes: An Odyssey of the Army's 18th General Hospital, 1947, 1948; Military Papers; Newsletters, Programs and Miscellany. Photographs depict basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; and her service as a surgical nurse in the Army Nurse Corps in New Zealand, Fiji and India; and Mastroianni's return to the states after the war. Mastroianni wrote detailed descriptions on the back of many of the photographs; She had sent those to her future husband, Joe Mastroianni, a Red Cross worker she had met in Fiji.
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	WV0038.6.003
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	900810888

[Daphine Doster Mastroianni in Fiji, circa 1943]

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