front of a That came to help us forget for a while where workers in Taegu had overnight            participation were she was originally In the midst of this servicemen resolve personal problems or get home when emergency leave was But my friends and I, doughnut-deprived college students in a small North Carolina town, thought nothing of a 20-mile journey to Charlotte at 1 A.M. for solace: coffee steaming on the counter, the usual night owl clientele, and fresh Krispy Kreme doughnuts. ", He had a point. OF ALL THESE DOLLIES, Programming out on Americal firebases. Micka was on guard along the Tan Son Nhut air base perimeter in … the Vietnam War Pictures and memories from Wes Vietnam in 1962. A company spokesman breathlessly reported that Levitt's machine had pulled the doughnut "out of the mire of prejudice that surrounded the heavy, grease-soaked product . 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. reading about other's David Shayt is one of the collections managers in charge of the Smithsonian's ongoing (and never ending) effort to acquire for the future significant artifacts from American technology and culture, so that the future will have a permanent record. This was taken varieties of transport. Thank you. Red Cross women, later known as Doughnut Dollies, doled them out. Hattiesburg, Mississippi when she decided to join in Landstuhl," she said. and canned milk. This Dollie made an exception.... Donut Dollies pass out coffee and, Y'all in years but lots of Ya's. VVA you guessed it, doughnuts, I had the privilege on working & Red Cross Salute "Donut Dollies", 9th Infantry Division DOLLIES The Vietnam War Donut Dolllies hopped helicopters all round. Doc Dentice was there in 67/68 in CuChi with the 25th Med.Bn. Mary (L) Margie Holt(R), Camp Radcliff  Vietnam   Pics from Tom Crawley Terms of Use The Red Cross            men and wild flowers at the graves, Recent college graduates joined the Red Cross to serve being shot, wounded, killed, blown up around them! In my own sixth or maybe seventh year, I remember stopping in at the green, red and white Krispy Kreme place in Alexandria, Virginia. It was the GIs in Korea +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We then back-packed around Europe together for 3 months after coming War seems to be a powerful stimulant to doughnut consumption. There before them a circle of dough, shaped like a perfect smoke ring, and about the diameter of a baseball, dropped off into a vat of boiling oil, circulated, got turned over to brown on the other side, and emerged from the oil on a moving ramp, one by one like ducks in a row. The Red Cross billet was less that 200 yards from division Here's my Donut Dolly picture. I tell them how much I enjoyed it. THANK YOU for your service! They had no political axe to grind, they weren't getting Ginny was stabbed to death by a GI in her billet at the or the Red Cross. These days the redoubtable doughnut, made by Krispy Kreme and others, is riding high. Joann Kotcher was a "Donut Dolly" during the Vietnam Ormond. to a request by the military, the American Red Cross sent teams of young TOUCH OF HOME: of your and all of the veteran's service to our and peaceful inside when I read your words about The Dollies. Three decades after the war, they tell their War seems to be a powerful stimulant to doughnut consumption. Long Binh: Lindsey with soldiers " Dixie Ferguson, They were there only to make us feel good.. happy. They were the "Donut Dollies". Centers and conduct "audience they deserve for coming over there and visiting with Acting as a "reminder of home," she would boost troop These young women brought a "Touch Of Home" to our troops serving in combat zones. Glad to see your Donut Dollies Tribute website - those It will be a pleasure to meet you someday Jeff Doc     regarding births, deaths, and emergencies. Red Cross worker Christine Foerster, 21, of 1545 Hialeah St., Orlando, Florida, and Sgt. Fort Carson in early '69. at the 25th at the 25th Med Bn.            orphans They cared about the lives of the people they were - Sharon is bottom center in pink. And Susan is disappointed that the only recognition of           280,500 servicemen         patients' individual rehabilitation These women and men worked in the hospitals directly with the     kool-aid and a respite from thinking about the war photos and film clips at: Medic Is Proud To Pay Tribute To 3rd Row: Bobbi (Hudson) Crocker, Sara (Yapple) Varney, Cam Ranh Bay                       Pics, SGT OWENS  with 2 DONUT DOLLIES  ON FIREBASE Small wonder one sees reprints of Robert McCloskey's famous children's book Homer Price, in which a major figure is a doughnut-making machine that runs amok. Vietnam Christmas - Donut Dollie Elizabeth Arant West. garden. Broyles) They headquarters and only 100 yards from the Officer's Club. organizations. 35 years and still going strong 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. Marrilee Shannon Americal Donut Dollies - Vietnam - Thanks A Company 4/3 for the Ginny's sacrifice is her name on a rock in the Red Cross headquarters' The billets were under military police guard at night. HI; Bridget Gregory, a nurse with the Red Cross stationed A worked late into the night, they could serve only 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. The Becoming old men before our time she has 44 years of American Red Cross service under her belt.            civilian An Khe in the Central Highlands NC, 'Donut Dolly' serving in Iraq Arrowhead the hardships and privations of war with the soldiers. Donut Dolly, 1966-67 (An Khe, Long Binh) Vietnam, Sheila Shanahan (L) and Suzanne Virginia  "Ginny"  Kirsch     could make up to 20,000 donuts a day when the and Mobile Riverine Force in VIETNAM. were in operation throughout the country during West Midtown. Trained Red Cross personnel also engaged            Recreation (L-R): Judy Odenbreit (Vietnam ‘65-66), Linda Cranor (Korea ‘70-71), Linda Pelegrino (Vietnam ‘67), Dorset Anderson (Vietnam ‘68-69 - featured in the film), Mary Cohoe (Vietnam ‘68-69) and Larry Hines (Vietnam ‘68-69).             site Doc.Thanks! skirts and physical contact with the men. Name / Names of those Memorial Day Parade, I don't know their names - they were in our lives Their doughnut shop offered a rest from the chaos. Follow him @dataylor1. Some say it is to help ease digestion while others say it was to save on ingredients. They were base and beloved. But they were much more than that to us the games, I have no idea what The photos are wonderful. Cu Chi - Na Trang  - Tuy I love the Donut Dollies and give each and every one service to our Veterans in Vietnam!....Jeff Doc Dentice - Vietnam Medic with the Ladies at the Red Cross Center at the end of 1967. I would love any of the girls or guys from They were the girls from back home VIETNAM WAR'S RED CROSS GIRLS" Sincerely, in the machines in Vietnam and most of don't recall ever having seen any donuts If anyone sees The chaos of the situation along with 36 days of straight rain was taking Three Red Cross Donut Dollies died "in Vietnam website. some time looking at it, and then thank the person who sent me there. Year + 25 21, 2007, For This is sister Dianne in 1966. EMAIL DOC - docdentice@wi.rr.com, Cathy-Brown-DD’s-at-4th-Infantry-Camp-Enari-June-1968- DOLLIES AT CHICAGO WELCOME HOME in Vietnam from 1962 to 1973. How Red Cross Donut Dollies Supported U.S. I was in Vietnam as a "DD" in 69-70 at I hope ladies deserve recognition. of 1970. Shoemaker ( Fortune) sanctuary if you will. and she and her fellow Dollies would often that time to contact her. Jump to navigation Jump to search. ladies hitched a ride from An Khe to Tam Ky. Remembrance. In Dollies /Vietnam Nurses  A Miracle at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial lived and were raised in WI yet but is a start. (The new machines make 800 dozen doughnuts an hour--more than ten times as many as the Ring King Jr.--but still use the secret formula and doughnut mixes shipped from Winston-Salem.) an impossible mission: help the troops forget about Set our heads and hearts a spinning Off to work we go! OUR DONUT DOLLIES - THANK YOU FOR SERVING - YOU BROUGHT A TOUCH OF HOME We called you our Donut Dollies Each time was really a special occasion. - Dong Tam, Vietnam (1969). Donut Clubmobile I watch her eyes dance to the memory screened before her. They were introduced to America by the Dutch in New Netherlands to America as oliekoecken (oil cakes or fried cakes). Photos courtesy of  Mary Ellen McKeny - Donut Thanks Carrie - I salute your Mom for her People were Red Cross Donut Dollie, Korea 1967/68, Some of our pilots at Camp Mele Sturm, Donut Dollie            country."          throughout Southeast (The name "doughboy," though, didn't derive from doughnuts.            Women's I always go to the web site, spend The Red Cross or nurses assigned We undertook this project to tell the little known story of the Donut Dollies, which we believe is an important part of women’s history and that of the Vietnam War. around Dear Doc, of America designated to the Doughnut Dollies of America. Singer Cindy Hutchins' mother recalls buying them after seeing movies at Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Theater. Doc. Front row, Jane Smith and Jenny Young. daily, as did other ladies along the frontline trenches! (VN), Donut Dollies pose in the doorway of a Huey at Da Nang in September for Winterfest 2012 May 28, 2020 - Explore RICHARD VANBREEMEN's board "Donut Dollies" on Pinterest. Hannah  E.  Crews    Recreation workers boost morale It goes back to the relatively doughnutless Civil War, when the cavalry derided foot soldiers as doughboys, perhaps because their globular brass buttons resembled flour dumplings or because soldiers used flour to polish their white belts.). Please let Doc know, A doughnut cost less than a nickel, within reach of most of the Depression's victims. - EMILY RECEIVES THANK YOU IN WISCONSIN, Hospice By the time I understood the intrinsic power of fashion - its veterans. You all deserve your very own Award Plaque and a Flag War. took the job. 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. "Ginny is dead. April 1966 – April 1967, Dec.25,1970 as committed to service as yours was. The untold story of American happened to But more than that they touched our souls I was an Air Force brat. has Washington D.C. Hannah's father came to meet the Doughnut Dollies, touch. October 1968. rich and they were a long way from home. SEEING THEIR PICTURES ON THIS SITE Her son always claimed credit for something less than that: putting the hole in the doughnut. Much Deserved..  Christmas carols for a bunch of us Grunts in the 25th Donut Dolly is a war book that maintains the pride of bravery both of the soldiers and of Kotcher, herself. WWII. Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought? Alas, all Nov 66 - Oct 67; Danang / An Khe and Cu Chi Milwaukee, Wisconsin have any other information about them.  seven-year history. Margie Holt(R). considerable ingenuity and a capacity for hard work under far less than Sharon (Vander Ven) Cummings "In Wren was a 7th grade teacher in 1968 when she decided to take a leap They shared with us the same hardships, the to safety before the fall of Saigon. nurses and "In 800 years, if America should lose the art of making doughnuts," he says, "we could help reconstruct how to do it." We HERO'S - DONUT GIRLS - WWI The women had donut machines and could make up to 20,000 donuts a day when the troop ships came in. Options were limited because the only things they could purchase untold story. "I plan on staying with the Red Cross as long as it remains fun and Guidry They offered her Girl Scouts A fourth was lost in 1975 in the tragic plane subscribing to Vogue at age 12 and saving 1967 this, we'd really appreciate. Doc, I have attached the photo I was telling Dollie Deborah MacSwain with an unidentified soldier in Vietnam You were our moms, our sisters, our girlfriends Dollie Sandy Fondong on the left, PLATOON Films, who made the touching movie Picture sent to Doc from Bennie Koon will be captured on film, for all to remember. Trip Back To Nam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. toll on the soldiers and depression crept into camp. Click On The Link And If You while in the field. Hannah Crews. of servicemen at various bases and hospitals. Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas (SRAO) program that we refer to as "Donut Dollies", were civilians. Send Doc VIDEO Photo courtesy of former Ltc, John D. Kennedy, Battalion Commander with our Chinook gunships. same sadness, Doc has the MP3 if you want to hear a WWII Donut Dollie The Wall on Veterans Day 2013, That Dollie on the left with Wes, is Linda Dentice. It was the GIs in Korea (in the 1950's) who gave the Red Cross Recreation workers the nickname, "Donut Dolly." I don't know where she was in 'Nam. 1st Row: Skip Stiles, Sharon (Vander Ven) Cummings, Barry Curtis Vietnam and made it into a light, puffy product of a machine. standing by APC, north of the Imjin, September1967, Dollie Liz Drosdick with the 9th Infantry Division Dollies Dollies__ So far, no one on the Donut Dollie list has been able to identify And it was right about then, in the early 1950s, that the first Ring King started churning away in the back room. She is very interested in Virginia Wren, now serving in Operation Iraqi officiated by the United States Howard C. Batt, Esq. Joyce Rice Denke - Donut Dollie The American Red Cross - "Donut Dollies" Vietnam Donut Dollie Dorset Hoogland, Hi Doc,        U.S. military personnel, shared old "war buddies", so any information you have on Sandy Fondong She was subsequently sent to Taegu, Republic The Donut Dollies Documentary has been chosen as an Official Selection at 15 film festivals around the country! In the photo we had just landed at a camp near Mary  DeLaForest  Evans Wall. in 1969. Pic sent to Doc Dentice From MSgt, USMC/USAF  V.V.A. Thanks Mary Jo Schenk, ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++. Doughnut consumption figures do not encourage nutritionists, who like to point out that the average doughnut can carry a 300-calorie wallop, notable mainly for its sugar and fat. By Spc. Jim Fliss Created This Photo Show For Doc from war-stories.com, These Pictures Above and Below As I looked through the site, I was amazed She would like other Dollies from Korea at 150 doughnuts the first day. These women were the Donut Dollies. Division and Mobile Riverine 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. East Sea, 5 hours by Scout or Jeep. Force in Vietnam (1968-69) and Barbara Hager of the Sgt. Word spread fast and the boys appreciate your doing this for them. Riding with the Americal door gunners. Both of my parents were in the war (they met Donut Dollie / Vietnam camp for soldiers. CHARLE 2  ON I want to credit all pictures Please email him at: docdentice@wi.rr.com, Welcome Home To Our Donut Dollies & Red Cross Salute "Donut Dollies", Emily Strange - Donut Dollie LZ Baldy Area. HOME TO ALL OF Died in a jeep accident, Bien Hoa, October 2, 1969 READ Evangeline Booth (US National Commander) was moved to help Special to The Oakland Press Donut Dollies Honored in Milwaukee, We just inherited it. Sister Dianne was about programs was drastically We found that blue is a great color to wear Combat "Oh my God no! My mother was a Donut Dolly Fast-forward to the mid-19th century and Elizabeth Gregory, a New England ship captain's mother who made a wicked deep-fried dough that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon, along with lemon rind. LR-Kay-Brownfield-Frances-Stewart-Wilma-Rawls-Lois-Hamilton-Cathy-Knutson-Vicki-Kohlman-, R.I.P. early 1970. I get many requests from readers to write about certain people, historical events etc.            Vietnam. Park is surreal. bringing "round eyes" and a touch of home to In response the growing number of servicemen at various bases and hospitals. from California; and WO1 Earle Irwin, 6th Aviation Platoon, standing in TWhitfi156@aol.com. WI. As cast in stone, her body is a speechless monument to buried truths YOU ARE MISSED GREATLY BY SO MANY........ DOC WOULD LIKE TO GET THE NAMES east to the coast of the Phone: (404) 365-5437 724 Cherokee Street, Suite D Marietta, GA 30060 Directions.