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Title	[Gladys Dimmick with Bob Hope, 1946]
Date	1946-06-29
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Gladys Dimmick and Anna Tabbert pose with Bob Hope on an airport tarmack on June 29, 1946. The women wear the WAVES gray and white seersucker dress. An airplane with an American flag on the side can be seen in the background and a young girl enters the frame on the left.
Veteran's name	Dimmick, Gladys Lunsford
Veteran's biography	Gladys Lunsford Dimmick (1923-2011) of Cedar Grove, North Carolina, worked in air traffic control with the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from December 1943 until February 1947. She was also a longtime employee of the University of North Carolina School of Law. Gladys Lunsford Dimmick was born in Cedar Grove, North Carolina, on 8 November 1923. After graduating in 1939 from Bragtown High School in Durham, North Carolina, she spent several years working at a nearby Liggett-Myers Tobacco Company factory." In December 1943, Dimmick joined the WAVES and attended boot camp at Hunter College in New York. In February 1944, she was assigned to air traffic control at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia. She married Jim Dimmick in December 1946 and left the WAVES in February 1947 . The Dimmicks moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where they both attended the University of Florida under the GI Bill. In 1954, they settled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with their daughter Teresa. There, Dimmick worked as a secretary for several deans of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School and later as director of placement and alumni affairs. She later worked as an assistant to Judge J. Dickson Phillips of the United States 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Dimmick passed away in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on 5 May, 2011.
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	WV0055 Gladys L. Dimmick 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	WV0055.6.002
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	900810668

[Gladys Dimmick with Bob Hope, 1946]

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