Jean Wrenn Higgins Oral History
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 January 1999.
Dates
- 1999 January 26
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Biographical / Historical
Jean Wrenn Higgins (1919-2012) of Siler City, North Carolina, served stateside in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) from 1943 to 1945. Jean Kathryn Wrenn Higgins of Siler City, North Carolina, graduated from Siler City High School in 1936, and then attended Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Following graduation in 1940, she taught history and English in Chatham County, North Carolina.
Higgins joined the WAVES in 1943. She was sworn in in Raleigh and then sent to Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in September 1943. Higgins's first assignment was at a naval air station in Weeksville, North Carolina, where she briefly supervised enlisted WAVES before being transferred to Glynco, Georgia. There she did more personnel work and also served as an aide to the commanding officer until 1945, when she married and was discharged.
After World War II, Higgins and her husband, Victor, moved to Washington, D.C., to await her husband's discharge from Bethesda Naval Hospital. After the birth of her four children and the death of her husband, Higgins returned to teaching. She taught at a school in Georgia before returning to live in Siler City. In 1987 she moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Higgins died 21 October, 2012.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 folder )
Language of Materials
English
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- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition of the collection is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Jean Wrenn Higgins Oral History
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- 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