Nearly 45 years have passed, but Catherine Van Sickle still remembers her job as a “Donut Dolly” during the Vietnam War. She had just graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in ...

Jackie Norris was just out of college when she found herself 8,000 miles away from home, talking to a GI at a rec center in Vietnam. “I was used to patting people when I talked,” she recalls. “So I ...

Red Cross Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas (SRAO), better known as donut dollies, volunteered to help boost morale during the Vietnam War. Two Nebraska Donut Dollies, Reesa Eisler and ...

Michigan Sen. Michael Webber (R-Rochester Hills) presented a state tribute to Rochester Hills resident Joann Kotcher on the floor of the Michigan Senate on Oct. 9 in honor of her service as a Donut ...

Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Nancy Warner was one of 625 women who formed the Donut Dollies, a Red Cross ...

Michigan Sen. Michael Webber (R-Rochester Hills) presented a state tribute to Rochester Hills resident Joann Kotcher on the floor of the Michigan Senate on Oct. 9 in honor of her service as a Donut ...

Dorset Anderson, 80, who was a Donut Dollie in the Vietnam War, laughs with her friend Irv Colby at the Worthington Veterans Day lunch. "She's a special one," said Colby about Anderson. CAROL LOLLIS / ...

A woman who worked at the American Red Cross during the Vietnam War will speak about her experience at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Broomfield Veterans Museum, 12 Garden Center, in Broomfield. Terre Deegan ...

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Cute or not, Donut Dolly duty could be dangerous. The young women, all civilians, shared many of the dangers of front-line troops as they navigated the war zone in the same trucks, jeeps and ...