In the spring of 1942, a College of Charleston student by the name of Mary Croghan was called, along with a few of her female classmates, to the president’s office in Randolph Hall. There they learned they had been selected to serve in a top-secret capacity amid the United States’ growing involvement in World War II. Telling anyone of their duties, the young women were told, would carry a heavy penalty.

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