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Lt Frances Rines Hay Oral History
Publication date: 30 July 2024
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title:
Lt Frances Rines Hay Oral History
creator:
Hay, Frances Theresa (Rines) (1917 October 13 - )
subject:
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
description:
Frances Theresa Hay (formerly Rines) was born on October 13, 1917 in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from a Girl’s Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts, took courses at Boston College, and attended Portia Law School. She graduated from law school in 1940 and passed the bar exam in 1941. She practiced with John Marley and Son in Boston until she enlisted in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve in April 1943. By July of that year, she was at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for basic training. After training, she was first sent to Cherry Point, North Carolina before being transferred to the Marine Corps Air Station in Mojave, California. There, she worked as a personnel officer, adjutant, and legal officer to replace men in those positions who had been sent overseas. While there, she met her future husband who was a Marine aviator, and also worked on the Uniform Code of Military Justice manual. She married her husband in Boston, Massachusetts before her discharge in October 1945. He was still in the Marines, so she went with him on his assignments and worked as a teacher. Her positions over the years include assistant to the president at Donnely School, a development officer at a private Catholic school, and a consultant for the development of a high school in San Luis Obispo, California. She and her husband had three children, and as of the interview she had five grandchildren. When she left the service Hay had reached the rank of 1st lieutenant, and for her service she was awarded an American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Wilson, Eleanor M.
date:
2004-05-21
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
409; 2004.409
source:
MCHC | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
040050
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-45
rights:
Unrestricted