Aimee Nott Moore Oral History

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: This collection has been digitized in its entirety.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/964
What's in the full collection?: 14 May 1999 oral history transcript (joint interview with WV0076 Vera Rackley Jenkins)
Full biography: Aimee Nott Moore (1918-2009) of Conway, South Carolina, served as a dietitian in the United States Army from February 1943 until 1945. Aimee Nott Moore was born in 1918 and grew up in Conway, South Carolina. She attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1939. She spent one year doing an internship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and then worked for another year as a dietitian in Mississippi. By December 1941, she was working at a hospital in Virginia. Moore become one of the first dietitians commissioned in the army in February 1943. She immediately went to work as the head dietitian at the army hospital in Blackstone, Virginia. In August 1943, she was sent overseas to Bizerte, Tunisia, via Casablanca, Morocco. In early 1944, she went to Mattaloni, Italy, for the storming of Monte Cassino, and stayed there for six months. Then, for the next year, she was stationed in Cannes, France with the 78th Station Hospital. Next, she spent a short time caring for recently released prisoners of war in Aix-en-Provence, France, before returning home in September 1945. Moore later received a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from Michigan State University on the GI Bill. She then trained dietitians at Cornell University and at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where she served as head of the dietetics program beginning in 1961. Moore died 7 October, 2009.)
Topics: Women's History
Military
Schools and Colleges
Branch of service: Army -- Army Medical Specialist Corps - Diet
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Oral history interview with Aimee Nott Moore and Vera Rackley Jenkins; Primarily documents the experiences of Aimee Moore and Vera Jenkins at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro); their service as army dietitians during World War II; and their careers after the war. Jenkins and Moore discuss their childhoods and parents' careers before recalling their time at Woman's College (WC). Topics include memorable professors and administrators, including Margaret Edwards, Lucille McMacken, W.C. Jackson, and Frank Porter Graham; requirements of the dietetics program, including lots of science courses; staying in Shaw Residence Hall under Katherine Taylor; Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to campus; going to chapel and concerts, and WC table service on Sundays. " Jenkins and Moore discuss their respective internships at Duke and Michigan. Discussion of Jenkins' wartime experiences includes her civil service position at Fort Bragg, listening to reports of the bombing of Pearl Harbor while stationed there, social life and dietitian duties at Fort Bragg after commissioning in 1943; and her heroes during the war. Moore discusses her orders overseas; her experiences in Morocco and Tunisia; being in Italy following the storming of Monte Cassino and during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius; being a dietitian in Cannes and Aix-en-Provence, France, for the 78th Station Hospital and prisoners of war; and her social life and travels in Europe. " Post-war topics include Jenkins' work promoting food service equipment and discrimination from her male co-workers. Moore also discusses her career in dietetics following the war. Other subjects include innovations in dietetics in the 1960s, Moore and Jenkins' participation in dietitian professional organizations, and related travels and activities.

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