Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion Collection

Only a part of this collection has been digitized.

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December 2014 oral history transcript; enlisted white combination hat; 3 shoulder patches; 2 Newspapers Golden Eagle from NAS Lemoore June 16 and 23, 1977; awards and citations;photograph album; 18 June, 1976 copy of Rudder, the Orlando, Florida Naval Training Center Yearbook; military papers; shadow box of insignia; prints; Triangle Seagals application; and materials; a challenge coin and photographs from the 1997 dedication from WIMSA (Women in Military Service for America Memorial); November 2007 newspaper insert "Women's Memorial 10th Anniversary", published by Stars and Stripes.

Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion (b. 1953) served in the United States Navy from 1976 to 1980. Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion was born 8 May 1953 in Los Angeles, California. In 1970, her family relocated to Sacramento, California, where she graduated from high school in 1971. Champion then attended Los Angeles Community College, focusing on home economics. Afterwards, at the suggestion of her father, Champion joined the United States Navy WAVES on a delayed entry program. In June 1976, Champion attended basic training at Naval Training Center Orlando, Florida. She was then assigned to Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. At this duty station Champion worked as officer personnel in the administration building, typing up temporary duty, or TDY, orders for soldiers. Her duties also included standing watch in the women's barracks. Champion left the United States Navy in April of 1980. In the years following she had a daughter. She currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Women's History
Military

Navy -- WAVES
Navy

Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)

United States--History--1945-
United States. Navy--Women

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