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"Heart
and Soul"
Site last updated
30 March 2008
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Vietnam Women Veterans, Inc.
All military staff and line officers, and enlisted women who
served in Vietnam are entitled to membership in the VWV.
 | President Claire Brisebois Starnes, Staff
Sergeant (E6), Women's Army Corps, U. S. Army Engineer Construction Agency Vietnam
(USAECAV), Long Binh, February to July 1969; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV)
Observer, Office of Information, Saigon, July 1969 to February 1971.
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| Vice-President Sandra Spatz-Wiszneauckas, Sergeant (E5), U.
S. Marine Corps, Naval Forces Command, Saigon, September 1968 to September
1969.
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| Treasurer Precilla Landry Wilkewitz,
Specialist 5 (E5), Women's Army Corps, U. S. Army Vietnam (USARV) Inspector General's
Office, Long Binh, January 1968 to September 1969.
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| Secretary
Virginia "Gini" Griffith, Technical Sergeant (E6), U. S. Air Force, CBPO, Tan
Son Nhut, April 1972 to March 1973.
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| Director of
Communications
Barbara A. Cramer, Staff Sergeant (E5), U. S. Air Force, Military Assistance
Command Vietnam (MACV), Logistics, Saigon, October 1969 to March 1970;
Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), Office of the Assistant Chief
Staff for Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS), Assistant
Administrative Supervisor Pacification Studies Group, Saigon, March 1970 to
April 1971. |
The purpose of the Vietnam Women Veterans, Inc. is:
| to help foster, encourage and promote the improvement of the condition of the
Vietnam female veteran; |
| to promote physical and cultural improvements, growth and development,
self-respect, self-confidence, and usefulness of Vietnam female veterans; |
| to foster new attitudes toward Vietnam female veterans; |
| to develop channel of communications which will assist the Vietnam female
veterans to maximize self realization; |
| to enhance female veteran membership representation in veteran organizations; |
| to create a more positive image of veterans in general; and, |
| to assist the disabled and needy veterans, including, but not limited to, the
Vietnam female veterans and their dependents, and the widows and orphans of deceased
veterans. |
ADVISORY BOARD
| Chair -- Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote, U.S.
Army Retired |
| Senior Air Force Representative -- Brigadier
General Maralin Coffinger, U.S. Air Force Retired |
| Senior Army Representative -- Brigadier General
Sherian G. Cadoria, U.S. Army Retired |
| Senior Navy Representative -- Captain Carol A.
Adsit, U.S. Navy Retired |
Advisory Board Members
| Colonel Pat Hess Jernigan, U.S. Army Retired |
| Chief Warrant Officer 3 Doris "Lucki"
Allen, U.S. Army Retired |
| First Sergeant Marion Crawford, U.S. Army Retired |
| First Sergeant Bridget V. Connolly, U.S. Marine
Corps Retired |
| Joanne Murphy, U.S. Army |
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