Papers (1870, 1919-1974) of the U.S. Navy officer, including correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings, certificates, and miscellaneous materials.
Barney Oldfield Green was born on October 9, 1919, in Caruthersville, Missouri to Joseph C. and Eunice (Shrum) Green. He graduated from Chaffee Central High School, Chaffee, Missouri in 1937. Green initially attended college at Montgomery Jr. College in Maryland and then transferred to Lake Forest College in Illinois in 1949. He would go on to attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1952 to 1954.
In November 1937, Barney Green enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was commissioned in 1945. He attained the job of Assistant Administrator in 1954 at the National Naval Medical Center; a position which he would have until February 1957. Mr. Green would eventually hold positions in NATO, the Navy Department in Washington, D.C. and in the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Inc., also in Washington, D.C., during the 1950s and 1960s.
Barney Green married Opal Jeffries Green (1919-1988) in November 16, 1941. They had a daughter named Linda Lou Green (1946-2020) and one son, Barney Edwin Green (1959-2021). Barney Oldfield Green died on July 25, 1972.
Source: Barney Oldfield Green Papers, #0665, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858
The Barney Oldfield Green Papers focus on the life of Barney Oldfield Green, his service in the United States Navy and on his professional career. The papers are divided up into series. Series one has personal papers that focus on Barney O. Green's personal life. Series two is devoted to his years in the U.S. Navy. Series three focus on his professional career in the health care field.
The personal papers contain records of Barney Green's birth, marriage and death. There are also some family history records. One box in the series has photographs as well as certificates with some of the photos featuring Barney Green and his wife, Opal. The papers also include Green's bachelor's degree and master's degree in business administration, graduate programs, and his high school diploma.
The naval records include correspondence, and miscellaneous records from Green's naval service such as citations and his appointments. Biographical sketches that are among his personal papers include information of his WWII service. The bulk of the naval records are Barney Green's officer fitness reports which give information on his job performance while in the Navy. Of particular interest are the documents that give the details of Barney Green's discharge from the Navy and histories of U.S.S. naval ships such as the U.S.S. Brown and the U.S.S. Fuller, two naval ships which Barney Green was assigned to during WWII.
The professional records include information on Central State Hospital, an mental health institution located in Petersburg, Virginia that was historically known to be the first institution to treat African Americans. The information comes in the form of the Central State Hospital Observer which is the hospital's newsletter and two booklets on the history of Central State Hospital. Among the records are the 1972 report on the Northern Virginia Training Center that Barney Green co-authored to establish policies for the Training Center's operations and the documents on the 1974 dedication by the Northern Virginia Training Center of one of its buildings to Barney Green. Noteworthy items that are in the Professional Information folder is a 1965 report on mental health along with Barney Green's nursing license and its application. The papers also include certificates, clippings, and correspondence.
Gift of Ms. Linda L. Green
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