Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 April 1999; a poster with the phrase "Ah...At Last!", circa 1942-1945.
Dates
- circa 1942-1999
Creator
- Northcott, Eleanor Neeva (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Eleanor J. Northcott (1920-2005) of Davidson, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1948. Eleanor Neeva Jackson Northcott grew up in Davidson, North Carolina, where she attended Davidson High School. She studied sociology at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1941.
After one year at the Pan-American Business School in Richmond, Virginia, Northcott went to work with the registrar at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. In 1944, Northcott joined the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, for basic training. She was then sent to supply school at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1945, her first duty station was in the Naval Supply Depot at Norfolk, Virginia. From January 1946 to 1948, Northcott was assigned to the United States Naval Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, as the disbursing officer. Northcott met Tom Northcott in Memphis and they were married in 1948, when he returned from service in Korea. After Northcott left the WAVES, she worked as a civilian in the disbursing office at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Eleanor Northcott died in 2005.
Extent
3.21 Linear Feet (1 folder and WVHP Oversize Box 2)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- United States. Navy -- History
- United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
- United States. Navy -- Women
- United States. Navy--Women
- Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES)
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 July
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository