Maxine Virginia Easter 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/903
What's in the full collection?: October 1999 oral history transcript; various name tags; ribbons and insignia from service in the Navy as Chief Nurse from tour in Phillipines and Reserves Service from 1942-1970 and a bronze dish with the Army Nurse Corps Branch insignia in the Artifact Box ; Raleigh News and Observer Newpaper August 15 1945 Announcing Japanese surrender, storied in OS Box; local newpaper clippings from 1963-1980 featuring Mary during her Navy Nurse Corps career at the Naval Hospital in Port Hueneme CA; photographs from nursing career 1942-1970; official portrait photograph wearing light blue summer service dress and combination hat, circa 1970 at retirement.
Full biography: Maxine Virginia Easter (1919-2022) served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1955 and the Navy Nurse Corps from 1955 to 1970. Maxine Virginia Easter began her military career in the Army Nurse Corps in 1942. In 1945, she served with the 313th General Hospital in Manila, Philippines, where she cared for prisoners of war. From 1952 to 1954, she was stationed in Europe. Easter served with the army until 1955, when she transferred to the Navy Nurse Corps. She was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, and China Lake and Port Hueneme, California. Easter retired in 1970.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Army -- Army Nurse Corps
Navy -- Navy Nurse Corps
Conflict: Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Subject headings: Korean War, 1950-1953
United States. Army--Women
United States. Navy--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: 313rd General Hospital; Hospital tents for patients at the 313rd General Hospital in the Philippines, 1944.

: 313rd General Hospital; Army nurses' tents at the 313rd General Hospital in the Philippines, circa 1944.

: Army nurse at ruins; Army nurse at ruins, circa 1944.

: Director's Conference, Naval Medical School; Group photo of head nurses from around the country who attended the Director's Conference at the Naval Medical School in Bethesda, Maryland on 24 October 1969. Participants are pictured in the Navy Nurse Corps dark blue uniform with white gloves and combination hat." Pictured are: (front row) RADM Ballenger, Capt. Vitilla, Capt. Bulshefski, Capt. Collins, Capt. Reilly, Capt. Blaska; (second row) Capt. Smith, Capt. Kovacevich, Capt. Murray, Capt. Feeney, Capt. Brooks, Capt. Maguire, Capt. Smoker; (third row) CDR Butler, CDR Morgan, Capt. Conrad, CDR Williams, Capt. Cannon, CDR Hogan, Capt Morin, CDR Pojeky, CDR Maxine Easter; (fourth row) CDR Hurst, CDR McCleary, CDR Dehler, CDR Walsh, CDR Eberharter, CDR Cornelius, CDR Stafford, CDR Slate, CDR Graves, CDR Shedyak, CDR Yankoski, CDR Brennan, Capt. Schmid, CDR Schuh, CDR Burcham; (fifth row): CDR Houghton, CDR Heimberger, Capt. Duerk, CDR Roller.

: Enlisted Training Service graduation; Group photo of the U.S. Navy Enlisted Training Service graduating class and their instructors in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 3 April 1959. Pictured are: (first row) Reid, Gagne, Brockway, Mayes, Doyle, Maxine Easter, Witcofski, Waters, Pike, Holmes, Lovvorn, Mathes; (second row) Reid, Crafton, Blanton, Gemmill, Phelps, Gronski, Cash, Jepson, Rogers, Younger, Foley, Jordan, McMillen, Griffith; (third row) McCurdy, Bader, Sly, Spiddle, Gagnon, Dumlao, Potts, Hayes, Brouillette, French, Smith, Poppineau, Burton, Jr."(fourth row) Adkins, Sweeney, Davis, Weinstein, Gannon, Simons, Plichta, McCullough, Reimer, Keys, Rising, Des Jardins, Mersey, Woodie; (fifth row) Petree, Jr.; St Hilaire, Hyman, Kranhenbuhl, Jr.; Riel, Donnelly, Bruce, Wentzel, Marietta, Simpson, Routon, Jr.; Willhoite, Gist.

: Maxine Easter and Norfolk nursing staff; Maxine Easter (second from right, in NNC hospital duty uniform and ward cap) and four other members of the Norfolk (Virgina) clinic nursing staff prepare to cut an anniversary cake in 1964-1965.

: Maxine Easter at podium; Maxine Easter speaks at a podium outside a building at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, circa 1970.

: Maxine Easter in classroom; Maxine Easter poses in front of a chalkboard and medical diagrams at the Portsmouth (Virgina) Naval Hospital, where she served as an instructor in B School of the Enlisted Training Service, on 13 May 1958. Official Navy Photograph.

: Maxine Easter in hospital duty uniform; Maxine Easter, in hospital duty uniform, stands beside a chair, circa 1960.

: Maxine Easter in nurse uniform; Maxine Easter poses on steps to a building while serving in the Army Nurse Corps, circa 1955.

: Maxine Easter in summer recruiting dress; Portrait of Maxine Easter in NNC light blue summer service dress and combination hat, holding black gloves, circa 1970.

: Maxine Easter in uniform; Maxine Easter poses in her summer light blue Navy cord uniform holding black gloves, circa 1956.

: Maxine Easter in uniform; Maxine Easter in black or navy blue evening dress or mess uniform, circa 1960.

: Maxine Easter in uniform; Maxine Easter in uniform, circa 1960.

: Maxine Easter on anniversary of Navy Nurse Corps; Maxine Easter (center, in NNC white evening dress) and two women in civilian clothes hold a sword while standing above a cake celebrating the 62nd anniversary of Navy Nurse Corps at Port Hueneme, California, in May 1970.

: Maxine Easter on ship headed to the Philippines; Maxine Easter (right, in sunglasses) and other Army nurses in wooden lounge chairs on board a ship to the Philippines in 1944.

: Maxine Easter writes on chalkboard; Maxine Easter, in Army Nurse Corps hospital duty uniform and traditional ward cap, teaches Army personnel in Stuttgart, Germany, circa 1955.

: Maxine Easter's retirement; Maxine Easter marches past a line of sailors in review during her retirement ceremony in July 1970. Easter is wearing the Navy Nurse Corps summer service dress and black gloves.

: Navy Nursing Administration Conference; Group photo of attendees of the Nursing Administration Conference for New Commanders in 1969. Participants wear the Navy Nurse Corps officer's light blue summer service dress with black gloves and combination hat." Pictured are: (front row) Mary Burch, Unidentified, Antoinette Garavaglia, Louise Jakshe, Edith Prencipe, Unidentified, Theresa Proto, Eileen McCarthy, Katherine Wilson; (second row) Maxine Easter, Miriam Sherman, Anna Fogarty, Eva Jones, May L. Reid, Barbara Bernstein, Helen Furmanchik, Imogene Johnson; (third row) LCDR Angeline Liakos, Ruth Halvorson, Claire Shea, Harriet Simmons, Ann Kubicz, Rae Leff, Mary R. Morry, Althea Livirrie; (fourth row) Harriet Ryan, Elizabeth Pfeffer, Katherine Howard, Betty Jo Alexander, Virgina Seledyn, Harriet Lanaghan, Janice Burcham, Irene Wujcik; (fifth row) Helen Roller, Ruby Brooks, Margaret Donoghue, Rachel Fine.