La Porte City Girl Leaves for East to Enter Waves School
La Porte, Ia. -- Miss Guinevere Barnhart, 21, left Waterloo Thursday night for Northampton, Mass, where on Saturday she will start training in an officers school for Waves at Smith college. On completion of the four-moth training she will be commissioned an ensign.
Miss Barnhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.V. Barnhart, La Porte City, joined the Waves in January. She was graduated from Coe college, Cedar Rapids, Ia, last June and has been teaching music and mathematics in Coggon, Ia. high school.
Her father is a member of the navy and is a recruiter in the Waterloo recruiting office.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, March 12, 1943
Ensign Guinevere Barnhart, daughter of C.V. Barnhart, special recruiter, first class, at Waterloo navy recruiting station and Mrs. Barnhart of LaPorte City, Ia., visited Waterloo this week. Miss Barnhart, who is the first Wave officer from Black Hawk county, was traveling on delayed orders from her Wave graduation at Smith college in North Hampton, Mass., to her first duty assignment.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - May 9, 1943 (photo included)
Dad Outranked
The tables are turned in the Barnhart family now. C.V. Barnhart, La Porte City, Ia., undertaker and casket salesman, enlisted in the navy last fall and was assigned to recruiting duty at Waterloo. His daughter, Jeanne, joined the WAVES last spring. For 20 years father gave orders to daughter, but now father is a petty officer first class and daughter has been commissioned an ensign.
Source: The Des Moines Register, May 30, 1943 (photo included)
