Marie Kevensky Oral History
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.
Dates
- 1999 November 3
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Biographical / Historical
Marie Kevensky (1929-2015), of New York City served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve from 1951 to 1954. She also worked for KLM Airlines and for the Department of State Foreign Service. Marie Kevensky grew up in New York City. After high school, she did clerical and secretarial work before joining the Marine Corps on 26 January 1951. Kevensky attended boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and then went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where she was a secretary in the motor transport office.
She left the Marines on 25 January 1954, and returned to New York. Kevensky worked briefly for KLM Airlines before accepting a job with the Department of State Foreign Service. She spent three years doing clerical work in embassies and consulates in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Austria. After returning to New York, Kevensky held a number of jobs, including one with the George A. Fuller Construction Company. She later went back to work for KLM Airlines until she retired.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 folder )
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.
- Title
- Marie Kevensky 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