Documents Gladys Lunsford Dimmick's time as a control tower operator in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) during World War II, as a student at the University of Florida, and as and employee of The University of North Carolina (UNC) and Judge J. Dickson Phillips. Dimmick mainly discusses her time in the WAVES and the jobs she held after WWII. She details her family's reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor, her reasons for joining the WAVES, boot camp at Hunter College, her control tower duties, President Franklin Roosevelt's death, her opinions about women in combat positions, and social life at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk. " Dimmick also describes her long-distance relationship with James Dimmick, stationed with the army in Western Europe, and their subsequent marriage. Post-war topics include her education and employment at the University of Florida and her work as a secretary for the UNC School of Law and Judge J. Dickson Phillips.