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Processor: Roy Grossnick (Updated December 2012) and originally processed by Megan Maples (May 2003).

Lynne Dunn Papers

COLL/472

Creator: Dr. Lynne Dunn

Extent: 4 boxes

1.3 cubic feet

Date Range: 1942-1989

Classification: Unclassified

Access: Open

Scope and Content Notes

The collection is organized in two series. Series I is a topical file of research material on women in the military dating from about 1940-1990. In this collection there is a government research, legislation, correspondence and statements from admirals on women in the military. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject.

Series II contains questionnaires given out to women who were in the WAVES Program when it first started. The questionnaires discuss what it was like to be a WAVE, how family members reacted to their enlistment, and whether they believed they were treated fairly while in the Navy.

Subject Headings (LCSH)

United States. Naval Reserve. Women’s reserve.

United States. Navy – Women

World War, 1939-1945 – Women – United States

Women sailors – United States

Women solders – United States

Biography

After receiving her undergraduate degree in History from Mount Union College, Lynne Dunn went on to pursue graduate studies at Kent State University. She work under the direction of Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan and received her M.A. in 1977 and her Ph.D. in 1982. Her major areas of interest are United States Diplomatic and American Women’s history. In 1977, she started her teaching career as a Teaching Fellow at Kent State University, and held lecturer and visiting professorships at several universities over the next ten years.

Dunn joined the Naval Historical Center’s Contemporary History Branch in 1987, conducting research on women in the military. During her two years with the Naval Historical Center, she wrote and presented the papers “From Caring to Combat: Women in the Navy, 1908-1988” and “A Special Race of Women: The Navy Nurse Corps, 1908-1938,” among other projects. For her work with the Center, Dunn was awarded a Letter of Commendation in November 1988, issued by Dr. Ronald Spector, Director of Naval History.

Two years after joining the Center, Dr. Dunn decided to go back to teaching. She accepted a position at Winthrop University as an Assistant Professor of History in 1989, where she is now an Associate Professor of History.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Series I: Research Materials, 1942-1989

1. Conference of District and Air Command Assistants 1956

2. Congressional Documents on Women in the Military 1977-1986

3. Correspondence 1967-1988

4. Gender Discrimination in the Military: The Unconstitutional

Exclusion of Women from Combat 1983

5. Government Policy and Guidelines for Women in the Military 1964-1965

6. Government Research on Women in the Navy 1942-1987

7. Government Research on Women in the Navy 1975-1987

Box 2

8. Information on Integrating Women in the Ranks 1946-1948

9. Legislation on Women in the Navy 1978-1987

10. Miscellaneous 1986

11. Newspaper Articles 1979-1987

12. Photo

13. Proposed Guide for the Utilization of Enlisted Women in the Navy

in the Event of Mobilization 1953

14. Statements made by Admirals regarding Women in the Navy 1946-1979

15. Survey: Performance, learning ability, and background information

Of Junior WAVE officers in the United States Navy 1963

16. WAVES Unit Information 1988

17. Women in the Navy and Discrimination 1977

18. Women in the Navy Information Booklet 1985

Box 3

Series II: Questionnaires, 1988-1989

19. Questionnaires – Folder 1

20. Questionnaires – Folder 2

21. Questionnaires – Folder 3

22. Questionnaires – Folder 4

23. Questionnaires – Folder 5

Box 4

24. Questionnaires – Folder 6

25. Questionnaires – Folder 7

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