Wanda Bears (Harubin Moore)Financial investigator, legal secretary
Born Hamtramck, (Ml); daughter of Joseph (born Poland) and Katarzyna (Prusinowska) Harubin (born Poland); married Allin C. B. (former Lt. Col. USAF, Fighter Squadron, 1942-46, European Theater of Operations (ETO), Battle of Britain); child: Michael Craig Moore.
Education: High School diploma (commercial business), Hamtramck H.S.; Wayne University Liberal Arts; Associate in Arts (A.A.), Orange Coast College; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (sociology), California State University, Fresno, Fullerton (CSUF), 1973; World Campus Afloat, Chapman College.
Languages: Polish, English.
Career: Financial secretary; probate court; legal secretary; deputy city clerk; military court reporter; real estate sales.
Military: Military Air Transport Command - Women's Army Corps (MATC-WAC), corporal, Pacific Theatre, 1944-46.
Member of: Past president, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), California Chapter; past treasurer, Polish American Cultural Network (PACN); Polish American Congress (PAC), California; Polish University CIub; Modjeska Foundation; Southwest Oral Historical CIub (SO-HO).
Avocations: world-wide travel, art.
Resident: Mexico, 1949; Alaska, 1958-59; Puerto Rico, 1967; Oceanside, CA.
From: "Polish Americans in California, vol. II," National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs & Polish American Historical Association. California 1995.