Ruby Morgan Sheridan Collection
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Oral history interview with Ruby Morgan Sheridan
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Primarily documents Ruby Morgan Sheridan's time at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), her experiences in the Army Special Services during World War II, and her career in food service. Sheridan discusses her experiences at the Woman's College (WC), including professors Margaret M. Edwards, Blanche Tansil, and George Joyce; working in the home economics cafeteria; and reactions to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She also discusses her fiancé, Pearly H. Scarborough, who stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines when it was bombed on December 7, 1941, and later being killed as a Japanese prisoner of war. Sheridan also describes her work in the Army Special Services during the war. Topics include the function of service clubs; meeting Charles Sheridan at Fort Bragg; her brother's experiences overseas in the air force and as a prisoner of war; working with German POWs at Camp Rucker; her duties as a service club director; V-E Day at Camp Rucker; the mood of the country during World War II; and the respect she developed for the soldiers and officers she encountered during her service." Post-war topics primarily concern Sheridan's graduate education at WC and career in food science.
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Ruby Sheridan in winter uniform
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Ruby Sheridan posing in front of Service Club sign wearing her Army Special Services winter uniform at Camp Sutton in Monroe, NC, in 1943.
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Service Club dance
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Overhead photo of couples dancing at Service Club #2 at Camp Rucker in Dothan, Alabama, on October 25, 1945.
