Women at War:  Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Conflicts
by James Wise and Scott Baron

Part II: Vietnam


Not the National Library, The New York Academy of Medicine Library. Anne Marie was the assistant, translator and secretary, to Dr. Malloch who was an author and researcher. He stopped practicing medicine to focus on rare medical books. Later, the place where Malloch and Anne Marie worked was named the Malloch Rare Book Room. Malloch officed in the medical library portion of The New York Academy of Medicine. After meeting Anne Marie for the first time she was immediately hired with a substantial increase in pay from her job at The NY Times. At the Times, Anne Marie worked in the Advertising Department as a secretary, she was bored there and hated it. Especially the salesmen who didn't seem to be able to remember that she was a lady.. She adored Dr. Malloch who gave her a huge office with French windows overlooking Times Square. In the mornings Anne Marie read rare books, manuscripts and correspondences aloud from around the world translating as she went along to English. In the afternoons she translated replies back to Dr Malloch's colleagues in whatever language required and typed notes for his books. He is acknowledged in several books, at least 4 and the notations single her out as -pretty much awesome. She had an apartment nearby and walked to work through Central Park. She left Texas for NY in the first place to pursue her lifelong dream of Opera, her voice teacher was Betty Rustigian and she lived near Columbia University.

All of this, the 'fabulous career' she loved and her dream of The NY Opera, she left, knowing she couldn't return, to join the WAAC.
She saw it as an opportunity to pay back the United States for the privilege of being an American.