{"id":7,"date":"2010-01-06T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mollieswar.wordpress.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T19:15:29","slug":"authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cyndee Schaffer<\/strong> is the daughter of Mollie Weinstein Schaffer and co-author of the publication of her mother\u2019s letters.. \u201cMollie\u2019s War\u201d published by McFarland Publishers is the result of this endeavor.\u00a0Cyndee has been married to her husband, Douglas Schwartz, since 1975. They live in Northbrook, Illinois and\u00a0they have three children.<\/p>\n<p>Cyndee Schaffer is the editor of the monthly Midwest Writers Association newsletter. She received a BSE in mathematics\u00a0from Northwestern University and a MS in curriculum development from DePaul University. Cyndee\u2019s work experience has taken her into three divergent careers. \u00a0\u00a0First, she worked as a high school mathematics teacher in the inner city of Chicago. She co-wrote and edited mathematics textbooks for several publishing companies.\u00a0Her next career led her into the \u201chuman side of computers\u201d as an IT consultant writing training materials, conducting corporate training and testing computer systems. \u00a0\u00a0In 2008, she changed careers again and collaborated with her 91-year-old mother writing a book based on the letters that her mother sent home to her family while serving as a WAC stationed in Europe during WWII.\u00a0 \u201cMollie\u2019s War\u201d published by McFarland Publishers in 2010 is the result of this endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>Cyndee shares her mother\u2019s story by speaking to various groups including veterans groups, libraries, senior living facilities, women\u2019s groups, men\u2019s clubs and other organizations. She discusses the writing adventure from inspiration to publication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mollie Weinstein <\/strong>(now Schaffer) (1916 &#8211; 2012) was a shy, retiring young Jewish woman from Detroit who enlisted in the Women\u2019s Army Corps (WACs) just months after it was established in 1943.\u00a0Mollie Weinstein\u2019s letters to her sister Beck (Rebecca Winston, 1912-1999), brother Jack (Jack Weinstein, 1922 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0) and best friend Sarah (Sarah Weinstein, now Kaminsky) provide a chronology of her service as a WAC from its beginnings with her train trip to Daytona Beach, Florida for basic training in October 1943\u00a0to her first assignments in California and Georgia, her service overseas in England, France and Germany through her return to the United States on the Queen Mary in November 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Mollie married Jack Schaffer in January 1946.\u00a0 They had three children and lived in Chicago and Wheeling, Illinois.\u00a0\u00a0During her career, Mollie worked as a medical\u00a0records secretary at several local hospitals.\u00a0 \u00a0Jack passed away in 2000.\u00a0\u00a0 Mollie passed away on April 8, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyndee Schaffer is the daughter of Mollie Weinstein Schaffer and co-author of the publication of her mother\u2019s letters.. \u201cMollie\u2019s War\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?page_id=7\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P25RpX-7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}