DAILY NEWS PEOPLE : FREADE WOOD.Freade Wood and 30,000 other unsung heroines will be feted Saturday by rather distinguished company. The Navy veteran heads a delegation to Washington, D.C., for the dedication of the Women in Military Service for America (WIMSA WIMSA Working Group for Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa WIMSA Women In Military Service of America WIMSA Women in Motor Sport Association (Australia) WIMSA Microsoft Windows, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, and ASP ) memorial at Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery, 420 acres (170 hectares), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; est. 1864. More than 60,000 American war dead, as well as notables including Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, Gen. John J. . The week-long observance will include President and Mrs. Clinton, all living former presidents, top military officials and active and former servicewomen. Wood served during World War II in the U.S. Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) as a storekeeper at several U.S. bases. With with WAVES National, a veterans' group, she offers gifts, hair styling and a friendly face at the Veterans Administration Hospital in North Hills, where she has volunteered for 18 years, and other nursing homes. She has had lupus lupus (l  `pəs), noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances. , an autoimmune disease autoimmune disease, any of a number of abnormal conditions caused when the body produces antibodies to its own substances. In rheumatoid arthritis, a group of antibody molecules called collectively RF, or rheumatoid factor, is complexed to the individual's own gamma , since childhood. A computer register at the memorial contains the histories of servicewomen throughout U.S. history. To make a donation or record your (or someone else's) history, call Wood at (818) 895-9349 or WIMSA at (800) 472-5883. AGE: 80 RESIDENCE: North Hills BORN AND RAISED IN: Rome, N.Y. Wood enlisted en·list·ed adj. Of, relating to, or being a member of a military rank below a commissioned officer or warrant officer. enlisted Adjective from Philadelphia, Penn., and came to California in the early 1950s, moving to the Valley in 1982. OCCUPATION: Retired office manager, bookkeeper and accountant MARITAL STATUS marital status, n the legal standing of a person in regard to his or her marriage state. : Divorced. VOLUNTEERISM vol·un·teer·ism n. Use of or reliance on volunteers, especially to perform social or educational work in communities. volunteerism : Wood has run the VA hospital office for 14 years, promoting veterans' causes including WIMSA, and keeping calendars for residents in psychiatry psychiatry (səkī`ətrē, sī–), branch of medicine that concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety. - ``helping them grow up.'' She also aids needy need·y adj. need·i·er, need·i·est 1. Being in need; impoverished. See Synonyms at poor. 2. Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree. families through the organization Meeting Each Need With Dignity (M.E.N.D.) and assists several senior centers. On veterans: ``A lot of them, if they turned to the VA instead of (some) other things, they might be better off - if you follow me.'' HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED?: ``I was volunteering in occupational therapy ... I started to come home and feel sorry for these amputees. It was time to move on and do something else.'' WHY DO YOU VOLUNTEER?: I can sit here like so many people and do nothing, or I can get out there and help others and feel good.'' BIGGEST DILEMMA: ``Trying to get as many names recorded for this memorial as I can,'' especially nursing-home residents unfamiliar with WIMSA. ``They've earned it.'' She laments the conditions in nursing homes. ``One of the women they put on the street (in the recent Reseda Care Center bankruptcy) is somebody I had called on.'' On her medical condition, ``I have more years behind me than I have ahead of me. Other than the rashes, that's the way it affects me.'' MOST DIFFICULT DAILY TASK: ``I guess trying to get money out of people. It's costly to me because a lot of things I do, I do on my own.'' FAVORITE DAILY TASK: ``Just relaxing with a good book.'' BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: ``People not caring about other people.'' GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. whether I've accomplished anything or not; all I know is that I keep trying.'' GOALS FOR THE FUTURE: ``Hopefully, that my health will stay as it is ... and I can do some traveling in between, and keep doing the things I'm doing.'' ROLE MODELS: ``My role model was my grandfather who brought me up. I was taught charity, and not to look for rewards (but) to do things for people.'' HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS?: ``To me it's not money ... If you've done things right so that you can live with yourself, you're successful.'' FAVORITE VALLEY HANGOUTS: ``The Odyssey Odyssey (ŏd`ĭsē): see Homer. Odyssey Homer’s long, narrative poem centered on Odysseus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] See : Epic Odyssey (in Granada Hills) ... for the view out over the city - and the White Horse Inn (in Northridge). FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: ``I enjoy walking; I enjoy traveling, going to new places. I like cruises.'' HOBBIES: ``Mainly helping other people.'' WHAT WOULD BE A PERFECT DAY FOR YOU?:``If I get all these loose ends on this (Washington) trip tied up, I can sit back and relax. That would be a perfect day.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Freade Wood Gus Ruelas/Daily News |
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