Jo Anne Kilday Collection
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Jo Anne Kilday helps hang a sign
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Jo Anne Kilday, Camp Lejeune Base Education Officer, helps two unidentified men hang a sign, at the opening of the office for East Carolina College in 1961.
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Newspaper clipping on Jo Anne Kilday's promotion to colonel
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This newspaper article details Jo Anne Kilday being awarded the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel. The article is accompanied by a photo of Kilday listening as Lieutenant Colonel Doris V. Kleberger reads her commission from the governor of Kentucky.
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Oral history interview with Jo Anne Kilday
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Description: Documents Jo Anne Kilday's early life growing up during World War II, her attendance of a six week United States Marine Corps training program, as well as the Armed Forces Staff College, and work with the uniform code of military justice. The Allied Forces Southern Europe, a NATO command, is also mentioned. Kilday recalls her childhood growing up in a small village in Tennessee during World War II, including her two older brother's involvement in the military during that time. She discusses her desire to join the U.S. Marine Corps because she felt she needed more structure, her first assignment as an executive officer at Camp Lejeune, as well as her work as an adjutant at the Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, California in the late 1960s. Kilday also mentions her uncertainty about what orders might be handed down during the process of President Richard Nixon's resignation, and her receiving of the Legion of Merit metal when she retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a colonel in 1981. Personal topics include her opinions towards segregation and growing up during the 1950s and 1960s, experiences with homosexuality and discrimination in the military, and her desire to fight for the equality of military women. She also discusses her personal view toward wanting to have a career instead of a family, and how pleased she is with what she's been able to accomplish. Kilday also mentions some of the misconceptions about the U.S. Marine Corps, and how her military experiences have made her more open minded.
