Charlesanna L. Fox Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/485
What's in the full collection?: The Charlesanna L. Fox Papers primarily document her experience as camp librarian at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; and at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The collection contains a March 1999 oral history transcript with Fox; correspondence; photographs; and biographical information from her service at the two locations. The collection also includes printed materials; including newspaper clippings and various souvenirs from Fox's time in the military. Also included are two clippings from 1951; a circa 1940 informational booklet "How to Organize a Community Film Information Center"; and two 2008 Randolph County Public Library newsletters that include feature stories about Fox.
Full biography: Charlesanna L. Fox (1910-2012) of Asheboro, North Carolina, attended North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). After graduation in 1930, she taught history in Maxton, North Carolina, until she took a job at a Washington, D.C., library in 1934. She returned home three years later to attend library school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduating from library school, she worked first in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and then in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she was when World War II began. In May 1942, Fox took the Civil Service exam, and was soon thereafter contacted by the Navy Library Service. She was sent to Washington, D.C., for three months to put together monthly book installments to send to United States Navy ships and stations. Then, from November 1942 until November 1945, she served as the first camp librarian at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where she directed the creation of six libraries. She was then sent to Pearl Harbor to be the 14th Naval District Librarian, where she remained until she left the Navy Library Service in June 1947. After two years in Knoxville, Fox spent thirty years as a Randolph County librarian in Asheboro before retiring. Fox died in Burlington, North Carolina on 14 November, 2012 at the age of 102.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Schools and Colleges
Branch of service: Navy -- Naval Library Service
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Charlesanna L. Fox at Pearl Harbor; Charlesanna L. Fox, far left, waiting to greet someone at Pearl Harbor in 1947.

: Charlesanna L. Fox in Honolulu, Hawaii; Charlesanna L. Fox standing outside of a home. Back of photograph reads: Charlesanna Fox; Honolulu, 1947; 249 Kapili Street; Apartment B.

: Library vehicle at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Photograph of a library vehicle used at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 1943-1945.

: Oral history interview with Charlesanna L. Fox; Charlesanna Fox primarily discusses her time at the North Carolina College for Women (NCCW) in the late 1920s and her work at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the Navy Library Service from 1942 until 1947. Fox discusses her family background in North Carolina, including her mother's experiences at the State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) with Charles McIver at the turn of the twentieth century. Fox also discusses her own time at NCCW, especially Dr. Wade Brown, the Dikean Society, her studies, campus activities, and dormitory life. Topics related to her time at Camp Lejeune include the layout of the camp, including Tent Camp and Hadnot Point; the men's reactions to having women on base; the organization of the camp libraries; creating a library for Dutch Marines who came to North Carolina for training; V-J Day; the Camp Council; and Armed Services Editions. Concerning her time at Pearl Harbor,

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