Alene Duerk

Alene Bertha Duerk ( born March 29, 1920 in Defiance, Ohio) is an American military person. She was the first female flag officer of the United States Navy.

Life

Alene B. Duerk grew up as the daughter of Albert and Emma Duerk on in Defiance, Ohio. 1941 Made Duerk her Nurse Diploma at the Hospital School of Nursing in Toledo, Ohio before she went to the United States Navy in 1942. After Duerk was appointed an officer and a few stations in the medical corps of the Navy went through ( Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia and Bethesda, Maryland, and on the USS Benevolence ), she left the Navy in 1946 at his own request.

A few years later studied at the Frances Payne Bolton Duerk School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Ward Management and Teaching, Medical and Surgical Nursing in 1948.

In June 1951 Duerk was ordered back to active duty and went as a staff nurse in the Naval Hospital Portsmouth, Virginia. This was followed by positions as instructor in the Naval Hospital Corps School, Portsmouth and Chief Nurse in the U.S. Naval Station Hospital in Subic Bay in the Philippines and from April 1962 as Assistant Chief Nurse of the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan.

From 1970 Duerk as Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ( BUMED ) has been appointed with simultaneous promotion to captain. On decision of the Congress and after a rank reform Duerk was appointed Admiral with effect from 1 June 1972 Rear and thus promoted the first woman to flag rank.

1975 dismissed the Navy Duerk honorable retirement.