Louise Nash Dorsett Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 1999; a copy of document from Navy's Bureau of Ships, April 1946; various photographs of Dorsett's service with the Navy WAVES, 1943-1945; a Navy WAVES uniform.
Dates
- circa 1943 - 1946
Creator
- Dorsett, Louise Nash (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Louise Nash Dorsett (1913-2011) of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1942 to 1945. Louise Nash (1913-2011) was born in Boulder, Colorado, and raised in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, the daughter of a hydroelectric engineer and a teacher. Nash graduated from high school in Mt. Gilead and then attended Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina, for one year.
She transferred to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1934 with a degree in English. She taught school for a short time and then worked for the Carolina Power and Light Company in Raleigh, North Carolina, for six years.
Nash joined the WAVES in October 1942. She attended five weeks of basic training at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and was then ordered to the Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C., in December 1942. She primarily performed administrative work, and she remained in Washington until her discharge in December 1945.
Louise Nash married Lieutenant Howard Dorsett on 4 January, 1943 in Staten Island, New York. The couple settled in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1946 and then moved to Mt. Gilead, North Carolina in 1947. She passed away on 11 October, 2011.
Extent
3.21 Linear Feet (3 folders, 1 textile box)
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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- United States. Navy -- History
- United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
- United States. Navy -- Women
- United States. Navy--Women
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- Women veterans -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- Louise Nash Dorsett Collection
- 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