Papers, (inclusive), (bulk) ca.1913-2000 1937-1999

McAfee, Mildred H. (Mildred Helen), 1900-1994

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Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (May 12, 1900 – September 2, 1994) was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy. She was the first woman commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the first woman to receive the Navy Distinguished Service Medal. In addition to her distinguished military service, Mildred H. McAfee was also the 7th president of Wellesley College. She was a U.S. delega...

United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve

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The United States entered WWII in 1941 and soon faced a serious shortage of manpower in the military. Congress, along with public interest and advocacy from various national organizations, forced the Department of the Navy (over considerable internal resistance) to start accepting women into their service to augment the many thousands of men already active in the war effort. On June 24, 1942, Congress passed an act to create a women's reserve as a branch of the Naval reserve; to be governed by ...

Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration

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Initiated by Barbara Rimbach and sponsored by Radcliffe College Archives, the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project includes interviews with sixty-five women who graduated from the program between 1942 and 1963. The program offered a one-year course in business management at Radcliffe College, taught by faculty from the Harvard Business School. Women were admitted in 1959 to the second year of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The HRPBA was discontin...

Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966

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Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (/ˈnɪmɪts/; February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. Qualified in submarines during his early years, he later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propu...

Powell, Lewis

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Boorda, J. M.

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Wilde, Louise K.

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Collins, Howard Lyman

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Stedman, Edith G. (Edith Gratia), 1888-1978

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Social worker, college administrator, and writer (Radcliffe B.A., 1910), Stedman was a canteen worker with the YMCA in France and Germany during WWI, a medical social worker at an Episcopal Mission in China (1920-1927), and head of the Appointment Bureau at Radcliffe, a vocational training and placement program (1930-1954). In retirement she lived half of every year in England, where she founded the American Friends of Dorchester Abbey, which raised money for restoration of the abbey. ...

Hoshina, Zenshirō, 1891-

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Women in Military Service for America Foundation (U.S.)

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The Women in Military Service for American Memorial Foundation (WIMSA) was founded to promote the building of a monument at the Arlington National Cemetery to honor all women who have served in the U. S. military. The site at the Ceremonial Entrance to the cemetery was approved in 1988. A design by Marion Gail Weiss and to restore and transform the gateway was approved in November. Ground was broken in 1995 and the memorial was opened to the public in October 1997. In Ja...

Burke, Arleigh A. 1901-

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Arleigh Albert Burke, U.S. Naval Officer, was born near Boulder, Colorado on 19 October, 1901. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1923 and served in the Navy until his retirement in 1961. A brilliant officer during World War II, Burke fell into disfavor in 1949 due to his opposition to adoption of the Air Force B-36 aircraft, but still achieved promotion to rear admiral and eventually selection as Chief of Naval Operations in 1955. He is credited with building a fleet of nuclear-powered subm...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Alajalov, Constantin, 1900-1987

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Illustrator, painter. Born in Rostov, Russia, Alajalov emigrated to the United States in 1923, and became a citizen in 1928. From the guide to the Constantin Alajalov Papers, 1929-1960, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Painter, illustrator; New York, N.Y. From the description of Constantin Alajalov papers, [ca. 1940-1979]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389280 Painter, illustrator, and cartoonist; b. in Russia; perm...

Collins, Winifred Quick, 1911-1999

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Navy captain Winifred Quick Collins (1911-1999) was born in Great Falls, Mont., the daughter of Daniel A. and Mary Winifred (Farrell) Redden. She attended the University of Southern California (B.S. 1935), the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (1938), and Stanford University (M.A. 1952). She was commissioned as an ensign in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in August 1942, and in 1948 was in the first group of women commissioned in the United States Na...

Helping Hands Foundation.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Navy League of the United States

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