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Title	[WAVES enjoy snow in Asheville, 1944]
Date	1944-12
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	WAVES Kitty Ruman, Carolyn Newby Finger, Flo Bergman, and Ginny Kane hold snowballs outside the Asheville, N.C., convalescent hospital following a December 1944 snowfall.
Veteran's name	Finger, Carolyn Newby
Veteran's biography	Carolyn Newby Finger (1922-2003) of Newton, North Carolina, a long-time school teacher, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1946 . Carolyn Newby Finger was born in Savannah, Georgia, but raised in Newton, North Carolina. After graduating from high school in 1937, she attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She graduated in 1941 and then taught school and worked in a bank in Kings Mountain . Finger joined the WAVES in 1944. She went to midshipmen's school at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated as an ensign in July 1944. After a month of temporary duty at Philadelphia Naval Air Station, she attended Supply School at Radcliffe College in Boston, Massachusetts, from October to December 1944. In January 1945, Finger was assigned to the disbursing office at a convalescent hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. When the hospital was decommissioned in March 1946, Finger left the military." Finger married Carl Finger in June 1946 had two children. She then returned to teaching high school for another twenty-eight years. Finger passed in 2003.
Place	Asheville (N.C.)
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	WV0057 Carolyn Newby Finger 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	WV0057.6.002
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	900810885

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