Box 3: Dixon, Ida-Gray, Judith

Record Group — Box: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains letters written by women who were trained in the Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service at Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) between the years 1942 and 1944. The letters were written as a result of a reference question to OSU’s Special Collections and University Archives. A woman came asking for photographs of the WAVES collection and published information in a WAVES publication that photographs were available through SCUA . Several women wrote letters requesting copies of the photographs. Letters are in alphabetical order and mostly hand written. There is also information on WAVES and women’s naval organizations.

Additionally, the collection contains nine boxes of WAVES registration cards containing 10745 data cards. The cards are arranged alphabetically by last names and then first names. Additional information on the card includes: section, date reported, home address, sate of birth, place of birth, high school, colleges attended, work experience, scores during clerical testing, and date detached.

Dates

1942 - 1999

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.