Mary Molitor, pharmacist mate third class of the WAVES

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20029214

Description

Mary Molitor, pharmacist mate third class, celebrated one year of duty in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) by recruiting four Fort Worth girls for service in the women's auxiliary to the Navy while on temporary duty at the Navy Recruiting Station, 416 U.S. Courthouse. Miss Molitor, who was stationed for seven months in the Naval Hospital at New Orleans before being assigned to recruiting, stressed the urgent need for women to serve in the hospital corps of the Navy to help care for the increasing number of wounded. The nationwide quota of the WAVES has been set at 20,000 new enlistees, half of whom will serve in the hospital corps. Miss Molitor, a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, left St. Catherine's College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was majoring in elementary education and music to join the WAVES. She took her training at Hunter College, New York and her specialized training at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She has a brother in service, Private First Class Leonard Molitor, stationed with the Army in Australia. Her other brother, Staff Sergeant Joseph Molitor, was taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Corregidor and later died in prison camp. In this picture, she is standing against the wall and posing for a picture. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, August 9. 1945.

Archival Date

1945-08-08

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-359

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Recruiting & enlistment; Hats