Margaret M. Weiss : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997.

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Margaret M. Weiss : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997.

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"Pinky" Watson discusses her life as an only adoptive child to a loving couple in Los Angeles, her schooling, flight lessons after college, and joining the WASP. Relates her experiences in WASP raining and meeting Jackie Cochran, and her assignment testing planes at Williams Air Base near Phoenix, Arizona. Describes her many years as a social worker and the meaningful projects implemented.

Transcript: 57 leaves.

Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman's University. Library. Woman's Collection.

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Sisters of Social Service

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Weiss, Margaret R.

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Native of Los Angeles, California and gratuate of Immaculate Heart College in 1948. Excelled in athletics. Joined the WASP, class of 44-W-7, and assigned to Williams Air Base in Chandler, Arizona, three months before WASP deactivation in Dec. 1944. Joined the Sisters of Social Service as Sister Laurencia Weiss, serving for twenty-five years in Los Angeles. Currently retired and living in in Santa Monica. From the description of Margaret M. Weiss : an oral history / interviewed by Daw...

Letson, Dawn

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