'Outside World, Are You There?' Memories of OCS(W)
By Barbara Bradlyn Morris
A former woman naval officer writes home, often with tongue squarely in cheek, about the trials of Officer Candidate School. Although the late 1950s were supposedly simpler times, the basic wants and needs of young adults then dont seem all that different from today.
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Ms. Bradlyn Morris went from Key West to the office of the Commandant, Naval District Washington, then to Naval Communication Station, Honolulu, where she left the Navy to marry a fellow officer. She is the author of three books: The Fattest Baby in the Bronx: Snack-Size Stories from a Writing Woman's Life (Bangor, ME: Booklocker.com, Inc., 2006), Crazy for Cats: A Purr-fect Love Story (Grand Rapids, MI: Gollehon Press, Inc., 2002), and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: An Insider's Guide to Washington's Liveliest Memorial (McLean, VA: EPM Press, 1994). Her work has also appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Army/Navy Times, House Beautiful, Bon Appetit, Far East Traveler, and Maryland Magazine.
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