There were machines to decipher them, you read them, and eventually distributed them to the people that they were addressed and also to those who you thought needed the information. Navy and was stationed in Washington, DC, in the code room.ĭM: Code room-it was the office that received incoming radio transmissions in code. I was not quite twenty-one, and I became an officer in the U.S. So my parents did not object to my doing that. Toward the end of that, it was 1944-I’ve had a cold so I sound kind of stopped up, as you can hear-toward the end of that time, we were in the midst of World War II, and they were recruiting rather heavily in the colleges for graduates in the upper ten percent of their class, that they could enlist in officers’ training school.
My life history does not hang together in the usual way.ĭM: Well, at the time-we’re talking in the 1940s-there wasn’t much for a young woman to do except education, sales maybe, secretarial work, and as an only child I wanted to leave home as fast as I could, so I took the easiest courses for me. PC: There’s a pause at this end of the line.ĭM: I know. My education was Hunter High School, going on to Hunter College when it was still an all-women’s school. PC: We can start where you grew up and education.ĭM: I grew up in New York City. What I’d like to start with is some background about you. Merritt, may I have your permission to record the call? Doris Merritt, that’s M-E-R-R-I-T-T, on April 28, 2008. Doris MerrittĬonducted on April 28, 2008, by Philip Cantelon NINR History Project Telephone Interview with Dr. Created by Lyons, Michele (NIH/OD) on May 22, 2019ĭownload the PDF: Merritt_Doris_Oral_History_2008 (PDF 158 kB)
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