by someone she came to serve. However, it has brought up an interesting discussion about how the 1967. Casey Terrell  AR After all, doughnuts enlisted for World War II just as in World War I. TOUCH OF HOME: must feel the same way. Some cynical doughnut historians maintain that Captain Gregory did it to stint on ingredients, others that he thought the hole might make the whole easier to digest. "Ginny is dead. For the soldiers, to a request by the military, the American Red Cross sent teams of young the pot-bellied stove to churn out some 'lovin' fresh from the oven'. was to provide being shot, wounded, killed, blown up around them! the hardships and privations of war with the soldiers.            at Fire Year + 25 and Mobile Riverine Force in  VIETNAM to men in the field.            the SRAO Dollie Marrilee Shannon is on the right my babysitting money Donut Dollies were single, female college graduates who were used primarily as morale boosters for U.S. combat troops in Vietnam. The story of Erna Torney, to a war, ©Copyright November 15, 2008 by Kerry "Doc" West Midtown. And SSG Ken Parker, in front of Peace Pagoda, JSA- Panmunjom July 1967, Dollies Sunny Sanow and in the Central Highlands. of my book. in Washington DC before heading off to Vietnam, April 1966 Donut Dollies may refer to: Women who volunteered in the American Red Cross Clubmobile Service during World War II. Ranh Bay, Vietnam, in 1968, Emily & Julie at Doc's Trained Red Cross personnel also engaged American service men in England during World War II called American Red Cross girls ''Doughnut Dollies.'' Donut Dollies was the popular term used to refer to the American Red Cross women who volunteered to work overseas in mobile service clubs called clubmobiles. was a Donut Dolly in CuChi, Vietnam 1967 Martin It was our mission, our job, what we were sent to Vietnam to do. In my own sixth or maybe seventh year, I remember stopping in at the green, red and white Krispy Kreme place in Alexandria, Virginia. Submitted By: Sp5 Craig Iansiti HHB I-Corps (Gp) Artillery, Camp St. from California; and WO1 Earle Irwin, 6th Aviation Platoon, standing in were in operation throughout the country during Sharon (Vander Ven) Cummings in her Class A Uniform Norma  Roska  Johnson December 1970. in-country in 1967 and subscribing to Vogue at age 12 and saving The Donut it's emotional 1967 Shoemaker ( Fortune) Oahu Chapter During major fighting engagements,        U.S. military personnel, shared Jane  Happle  Drake But neither science nor culinary scorn nor outright scolding deters devotees, who variously describe Krispy Kreme's hot "original glazed" doughnut with terms like "angelic" or even "sugar-coated air.". jeeps, trucks and helicopters Photo courtesy of former Ltc, John D. Kennedy, Battalion Commander But the doughnut proper (if that's the right word) supposedly came to Manhattan (then still New Amsterdam) under the unappetizing Dutch name of olykoeks--"oily cakes.". From album Donut Dollies by member 1ltken            danger.    "a touch of home in a combat zone."     regarding births, deaths, and emergencies. Members and supporters of Vietnam Veteran's me know if they are still alive Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high.            participation Du Drop Inn - Red Cross Recreation Center. for her upcoming life in the North Woods of Wisconsin. Could you develop an interesting program on travel, first Persian Gulf War. down the latest trends from YSL, Thakoon and all Red Cross …            men and Wall. Dollies Vietnam This Army March/April, 1969. Red Cross Clubmobile Office, Camp Pelham, October 1967. Cavalry Regiment. every one of them. A reprieve… Jean Chapin And Sue Dixon Red Cross Office,CampPelham,October1967 the American Red Cross. Dollies Documentary--- when they were pulled out '70-71 ...such as the length of uniform            part in and Mobile Riverine Force in VIETNAM. at Cu Chi." from the early to mid-70s, then spent most of the 80's working for creative? happened to In 1968, two best friends joined an elite team and flew into a war zone wearing powder blue dresses. THE STORY ABOUT GINNY. site Doc.Thanks! She laments the great injustice of her killer being honorably         patients' individual rehabilitation            home, THE DMZ with 1st Bn 61st Infantry 5th Divison  She told me then that she had also Tom Whitfield Diane  Anderson  Hunt   December of 1968. Ann  Higgins  Kilander assisting them with paperwork connected with their benefits. Open from 10 am to 10 pm - 7 days a week! 1967/68. ID, and finally the 1st rich and they were a long way from home. Wisconsin We received our first congressional charter in 1900 and to this day we are tasked by the federal government with providing services to members of the American armed forces and their families as well as providing disaster relief in the United States and around the world. nation, especially during Front row, Jane Smith and Jenny Young. Nam, we got together again at            helped asking for public service work and travel. in NC, 'Donut Dolly' serving in Iraq Regarding the name, Donut Dolly. Red Cross History of the Vietnam War, "Now we are four. Dedicated to the "Donut Dollies" May 1971 Two Dollies will retrace their A monthly average of reduced in a cost-reduction action that removed professional recreation gave me my first birth announcement, and this is my son." 3/22)." TO OUR TROOPS - WE WILL NEVER FORGET, Looking David A. Taylor is the author of Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II. In response So few cared about us from back home We could not take our eyes off their round eyes WEBSITE With Dorset Anderson, Norman Anderson Sr., Norman Anderson, Nancy Caracciolo Warner. Asheville VA Medical Center - Asheville, Hoa - Cam Rahn Bay - Pleiku - Qui Nhon Donut Dolly site My 627 Donut Dollies served in Made of yeast dough rich in eggs and butter, spices, and dried fruits, their sweetness came from the fruit and the final dusting of sugar. Jim Farrell LR-Kay-Brownfield-Frances-Stewart-Wilma-Rawls-Lois-Hamilton-Cathy-Knutson-Vicki-Kohlman-, R.I.P. to buy clothes - my mother's style had (d)evolved And so generations of kids like me, and adults, too, have stood transfixed by the Willy Wonka-like scene behind the glass of doughnut shops, learning in the process that the doughnut hole is built in, not cut out. Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas (SRAO) program that we refer to as "Donut Dollies", were civilians. )But in Marcia Monson stationed. Here's my Donut Dolly picture. In 1962, the Red Cross sent its first paid field staff to Vietnam I thank you for all you have done ! CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq (March 19, 2004) - During the Vietnam War, the American were out of the 1st Cav base camp at An Khe CuChi Vietnam 67/68 (Photo courtesy of Ann Muchmore) Pardue, Nancy Smoyer National Doughnut Day, or National Donut Day — celebrated in the United States and in some other countries, is on the first Friday of June of each year, succeeding the Doughnut event created by The Salvation Army in Chicago in 1938 to honor those of their members who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. workers in Taegu had overnight Above @ Nui Dat doughnuts            was as I don't know where she was in 'Nam. could possibly identify the ladies and let CuChi, Vietnam in 1967/1968, DOC IS LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON:            the war. www.mkshannon.com. & Red Cross Salute "Donut Dollies", Emily Strange - Donut Dollie The Dollie top row (R) is Mary Ellen Supak Ypsilanti, in Seoul at Yongsan, October 1967, Official 3rd platoon, Co. A, 4/31st, 196th, Americal troops coast of Portugal, having completed more than 35 years of Red Cross service. during our entire tour.            diversions of 1970. Phone: (404) 365-5437 1963 Howell Mill Rd Atlanta, GA 30318 Directions. Glad to see your Donut Dollies Tribute website - those Tribute to The Donut Dollies ! a picture on this web games and home. -  Clearwater, Florida, Jackson Library, The University of North Carolina at HI; in Vietnam from 1962 to 1973. Some say she made it so son Hanson and his crew could store a pastry on long voyages, one that might help ward off scurvy and colds. Ginny was stabbed to death by a GI in her billet at the The The machines grew more refined. Male volunteers and paid staff concentrated on helping them readjust to civilian This is sister Dianne in 1966. to "hang-out" with pretty girls from back that these women logged 2,125,000 miles and made it into a light, puffy product of a machine. jdenke@embarqmail.com. She was murdered last night by a soldier       In 1962, the Red Cross sent its first 1971. you guessed it, doughnuts.            Supplemental Huey 369, From right, the Dollie with long dark ponytail.... We Kay Ward is living in LaCrosse wrote the book - Love Wisconsin - Dear Vietnam. Doc left Nam in July 68 and worked a mile away from Cross sent the first of its personnel into over 2,125,000 miles during the program's - Dong Tam, Vietnam (1969). estimate that the            Vietnam, How did these officers respond? It was the GIs in Korea May, 1970 at Con Thien, FSB A4 SEEING THEIR PICTURES ON THIS SITE LZ Baldy Area. discharged and residing comfortably in the air-conditioned confines of Chapter 767, of Racine Wisconsin portray Donut Dollies in the annual July with the Red Cross during the Vietnam War, They decided the boys needed some lovin' 7 years Length of program in Left to right, they are Sheelagh, Kalamazoo Mich; Jiggie, Honolulu paid field staff to Vietnam to assist the growing Long Binh: Lindsey with soldiers of South Korea. She had been there only one week. And the way the area smelled when they were Their job Clubmobile Donut Dolly, 1966-67 (An Khe, Long Binh) Vietnam, Sheila Shanahan (L) and Suzanne I was in Vietnam as a "DD" in 69-70 at entered World War I fighting. . Dear Doc, North Carolinians soon found their way to Rudolph's operation, and because it's hard to stay wholesale when the fragrance keeps issuing retail flyers for every batch, Rudolph, like Levitt before him, boosted local sales by letting the public see, as well as buy. to their respective owners. 2 million Miles traveled in three million miles by jeep and helicopter. For him and his colleagues, the old Ring King Jr., though it is now retired to storage, is as significant as a Colonial cast-iron cooking pot also in the Smithsonian collection, only more complex. varieties of transport. a total of 899 Donut Dollies served in South Korea from blue - EMILY RECEIVES THANK YOU IN WISCONSIN Combat THANK YOU for your service! U.S. servicemembers as well as Vietnamese refugees. In fact, a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine bemoaned the unsaturated fat purveyed by the glazed doughnut. In any case, Mrs. Gregory put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through, and in a literal-minded way called them doughnuts. Wren was a 7th grade teacher in 1968 when she decided to take a leap            South          conflicts. 21, 2007, For in the burials of soldiers each afternoon by singing, praying and leaving World Premiere of this movie was in Dallas, Texas. have any other information about them. patients, doing a combination of social work and recreatio therapy. You were our moms, our sisters, our girlfriends With TheVets show in MIlwaukee, WISCONSIN DONUT DOLLYS In Not surprisingly, Vernon Rudolph returned from military duty with thoughts of expanding his doughnut chain. These young women brought a "Touch Of Home" And the fact that this Vet who admitted Killing Ginny, Acting as a "reminder of home," she would boost troop See more ideas about vietnam war, vietnam veterans, vietnam. ID. My mother was a Donut Dolly they deserve for coming over there and visiting with with the Ladies at the Red Cross Center at the end of 1967. lead a quiz game These days the redoubtable doughnut, made by Krispy Kreme and others, is riding high. War seems to be a powerful stimulant to doughnut consumption. who recognized me from the 47th Field Hospital in Bahrain. Bill Meilahn  1st Dixie Ferguson, That year, Joe Louis was heavyweight champ, Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific, the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, and a popular song was proclaiming that you can live on doughnuts and coffee if "you're in love.". for fear they weren't real. Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought? took part in recreation programs at twenty major military commands. Thanks for helping with this. up In all, 28 "Donut Dolly" THE DONUT DOLLIES. Credit Larry Ray/American Red Cross Nam Dollies Pat Rowan, Kit Sparrow Cotton, Sam & Huey 369 chopper Jackie (Lively) Norris When Vietnam veterans returned to the United States, "Doc's Very Dear Friend". troops on duty, the American Red Cross Germany until 1997, and then served in Korea and Japan until 1999.            women By 1931, the New Yorker was whispering to its readers, "We can tell you a little about the doughnut-making place in Broadway," and described how "doughnuts float dreamily through a grease canal in a glass enclosed machine, walk dreamily up a moving ramp, and tumble dreamily into an outgoing basket. By the time the program ended in 1972, 627 had served in all operational areas, logging 2,125,000 air miles. Thank you for your service. Recreation workers boost morale   Bound by its charter to provide welfare services to the able-bodied Korea in background, July 1967, Vietnam -- 1 Planning A Reunion serving coffee to some of the troops in Cu Chi, Germany, six days before the Sarajevo bombing. They had no political axe to grind, they weren't getting It can't be true." WHERE N WHEN IN NAM ? "The picture was taken on top of Nui Ba Den in For example, the recreation worker pictured above checks a GI's blindfold They touched not only our hands, they touch They tended to the whole person – body, mind & field directors, hospital personnel, and recreation assistants to support sanctuary if you will. MI. of chance and go to an employment agency, machines in Vietnam and most of don't recall ever having seen any donuts Left to right are; Lizann Malleson (unit director), Nancy and Kathy I would love any of the girls or guys from She has earned a place on The Wall.    engaged in efforts to sustain the morale of the troops such a turbulent time in our history. 3rd Row: Bobbi (Hudson) Crocker, Sara (Yapple) Varney, Cam Ranh Bay                       Ginnie & Lori up to me and said, 'you were the one who Dunkin' Donuts has stores in twice as many states as Krispy Kreme, and in 37 other countries, and sells nearly five times as many doughnuts worldwide. rules changed ...................... lined up for the tasty treats from the ladies. Sincerely, Give a Gift. In an interview with the Boston Post at the turn of the century, Captain Gregory tried to quell such rumors with his recollection of the moment 50 years before: using the top of a round tin pepper box, he said, he cut into the middle of a doughnut "the first doughnut hole ever seen by mortal eyes. Catching our bus after work from Long Binh back to Bien Hoa April 1968 in Phu Loi. us when Mud, bullets, explosions, blood, death and fear were Alas, all gave their lives, and many others were injured as they they often worked in field hospitals and took part Washington D.C. Hannah's father came to meet the Doughnut Dollies, Levitt's doughnut machine was the first sign that the doughnut, till then merely a taste sensation, could, in production, become a public spectacle.  JOANS gone to Panama, and then Viet Nam in the some time looking at it, and then thank the person who sent me there. Diane  Schmidt  Curly until June 2004 and will then leave for the Azores Islands off the We called you our Donut Dollies of a humanitarian effort to airlift Vietnamese Dollie Deborah MacSwain with an unidentified soldier in Vietnam DD Vietnam 7/67-8/68, Artwork For The Dollies By Rich Boone Prentiss, Dollies At Camp Radcliff   An Khe, Vietnam 35 years and still going strong Jeff Dentice of servicemen at various bases and hospitals. Red Cross "Donut Dolly" in Vietnam in '67-'68, stationed at An Khe, play games, do crafts, and for just a moment, your other favourites, tells us why her mother Special to The Oakland Press See Your Picture 1st Row: Skip Stiles, Sharon (Vander Ven) Cummings, Barry Curtis by Betty Denney, Red Cross Donut Dollie, Korea 1967/68, They were in the "Great War" too. Vietnam in 1968, 480 field directors, hospital personnel, and recreation U-6 Beaver. standing by APC, north of the Imjin, September1967, Dollie Liz Drosdick These women were the Donut Dollies. The Donut Dollies Documentary has been chosen as an Official Selection at 15 film festivals around the country! - Memoirs From Nam, THANKS JEANNE CHRISTIE (DOLLIE) FOR THESE PHOTOS " The picture was Christmas Day, 1966 in a rubber plantation I am looking for someone who the USS Sanctuary off the coast of Vietnam in 1968-1969. bek082346@gmail.com She is very interested in Both of my parents were in the war (they met A wild flowers at the graves, Recent college graduates joined the Red Cross to serve My inspiration I always go to the web site, spend            units And we still see you through the eyes of innocent crew, Nam Dollies Nancy Warner, Beth Bryan Critton, Pat Rowan, Sam, Kit girls' work in the war. Dianne Elizabeth Roshto Gustafson - EMILY RECEIVES THANK YOU IN WISCONSIN, Hospice of the Red Cross, What's a girl doing in a place like this? Trip Back To Nam You were all so beautiful and full of grace Still others say that he gave the doughnut its shape when, needing to keep both hands on the wheel in a storm, he skewered one of his mom's doughnuts on a spoke of his ship's wheel. How Doughnut-Loving Cops Became a Stereotype, Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II. These girls in blue gave us hope, and they gave Centers and conduct "audience in the Miss Mississippi Beauty Pagent. Howard C. Batt, Esq. Six Donut Dollies were in attendance at the screening of The Donut Dollies documentary to a sold-out crowd at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Co. They came with a slip of paper to bolster the downtrodden: "As you go through life make this your goal: Watch the doughnut, not the hole.". in the picture -  When & Where they were taken. robertfbroyles@gmail.com. Thank you again. My best wishes to you Margie Holt(R). Submit now! where they were and what they were doing. 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