Margaret Wyatte Glennon Oral History
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Oral history interview with Margaret Wyatte Glennon
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Primarily document's Margaret Wyatte Glennon's education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in the 1930s, her service in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II, and her personal life after the war. Glennon discusses her time at Woman's College (WC)in the late 1930s, including classes, faculty members, and housing. She describes her decision to pursue a master's degree in chemistry at Smith College and then returning to WC as an instructor. " Glennon also remembers her duty in the WAVES, including a recruiter friend contacting her; basic training at Smith College and the working relationship between the WAVES and enlisted men; her activities at the Indian Head Naval Base in Maryland; meeting and courting the base commander's son; buying her wedding dress on V-J Day; and her husband's experiences in the Marine Corps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the battleship New Mexico. " Other topics include Glennon's time in graduate school; her husband's military career; her life as a military wife raising their four children; her opinion of women in combat today; and the impact of her service in the WAVES on the rest of her life.
