MILDRED MCAFEE
(Mildred Helen McAfee Horton)
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She had just been appointed as the first female vice president of the Federal Council of Churches. Her husband was one of the leading theologians in the country and the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School.
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Mildred Helen McAfee Horton was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy. She was the first woman commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the first woman to receive the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.
