Nancibel Riffe Collection, 1939-1949.

United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Danville High School (Danville, Ky.)

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Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

William Woods University (Fulton, Mo.)

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

United States. Naval Air Corps

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Kemper Hall (Kenosha, Wis.)

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

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...

Riffe Family

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Williams, Donald E.,

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Donald E. Williams worked as a nipper in the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine, Juneau, Alaska at various times between 1937-1939. From the description of Working in the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine : from the memoirs of Donald E. Williams, 1937-1939. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 45679615 ...

Riffe, Clara B.

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Covered Wagon Antiques (Danville, Ky.)

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Riffe, Julian.

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Rogers, Nancibel Riffe 1925-2004.

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Nancibel Riffe was born on April 9, 1925 in Pulaksi County, Kentucky. She lived Danville, Kentucky with her parents Clarabelle and Julian Riffe. She attended Danville High School the first few years of high school. For her senior year, starting in the fall of 1942 until spring 1943, she attended Kemper Hall in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She attended college at William Woods College located in Fulton, Missouri from fall 1943 until spring 1945. Her major was merchandising. She was elected freshman class ...

Caudill, James Reid.

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United States. Coast Guard

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The Rock of Ages Light is a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse on a small rock outcropping approximately 2.25 miles west of Washington Island and 3.5 miles west of Isle Royale, in Keweenaw County, Michigan. It is an active aid to navigation. From the description of Rock of Ages Lighthouse Logbook, 1939-1945. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 758507044 "The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization...