Lucile Griffin Leonard Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 January 1999; various correspondence, including Victory Mail, September 1943-May 1945; various photographs of Leonard’s United States Army service as dietician, circa 1944-1945 and undated; various military papers, 1943-1946; a scrapbook documenting Leonard's Army service, 1943-1945; Griffin's Army Dietician olive drab uniform, 1942-1943.
Dates
- circa 1942 - 1999
Creator
- Griffin Leonard, Lucile (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Lucile "Lucy" Griffin Leonard (1920-2006) of Sanford, North Carolina, served as a hospital dietitian in Africa and Italy while in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, and later as a dietitian at UNCG and in N.C. public schools. Lucile "Lucy" Griffin Leonard was born 28 November 1920 and was raised in Sanford, North Carolina. She studied home economics and institution management at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1941.
After her graduation, Leonard worked for the Dairy Council in Durham, North Carolina. Leonard enlisted in the army and became a hospital dietitian at Camp Butner, North Carolina, in September 1942. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in March 1943 and went to training at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. Leonard sailed on the SS Pasteur in September 1943 to the 81st Station Hospital in Bizerte, Tunisia. In 1944, she moved to Naples, Italy, and later to Livorno, Italy.
Extent
3.46 Linear Feet (4 folders, 1 scrapbook box, 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 fair.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Lucile Griffin Leonard 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