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1st Lieutenant Adams was the first woman physician appointed to the Regular Army Medical Corps. She was appointed in March 1953.
She went on to become the U.S. Army’s first black female physician to attain the rank of colonel in 1955.
She spent three years of her life as a WAC during the Korean War as a dental technician. She grew up on a family farm in West Virginia. She met Donald Ethier, a fellow dental technician, at Ft. Dix. Two weeks later they married. Bernice was the first woman and Korean War veteran to serve as commander of the Brockton Veterans Council in 1900. She was a longtime volunteer at Brockton VA Medical Center. Bernice died in May of 2016 and Donald died in 1994.
Sara Gdulin studied dentistry in the Ukraine and Latvia before moving to Chicago, Illinois. She attended the University of Illinois College of Dentistry and obtained her dental license in 1924. She married a psychologist, had a daughter, and then opened a private practice in Chicago. She joined the WAVES as a Lieutenant. She was an active duty dentist at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station from 1944-46. She remained in the US Naval Reserve until retiring as a commander on December 01, 1961. After serving in the WAVES she served on the staff of the Women and Children's Hospital of Chicago. She was a member of the Association of Military Surgeons.
She was the first woman to serve as an Army dental officer. She was commissioned into the Army Dental Corps with the rank of Captain. A 1941 graduate of Temple University, she reported for duty at Fort Lee, Virginia, on March 21, 1951.