School Secretary First Wave Sworn Here
Miss Pauline Dryden, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Dryden, 914 Grant avenue, is shown here as she became Waterloo's first Wave candidate to be sworn into service in Waterloo. Miss Dryden, who became an apprentice seaman in the Waves by taking the oath from Ensign Anne Dorsey, right, of Des MOines, has been employed here as a secretary at Longfellow school. A 1939 graduate of East Waterloo High school, she will be trained at Hunter College, New York City
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, September 26, 1943 (photo included)
Trying to get together on words and music is a group of Iowa WAVES gathered in "date" lounge of barracks at Ottumwa naval air station. Dorothy Faye Hinze, Hamburg is at piano. The others are (left to right) Pauline Dryden, Waterloo; Geraldine Kassler, Marion; Phoebe Ann McMillin, Sumner, barracks counselor; Harriet Neal, Greene; Bernice Geronzin, Clinton; Dorothy Appel, Mount Pleasant; Laura Stover, Des Moines; Virginia Chandler, Des Moines; Delores Busse, Britt, and Marjorie Durrell, Leon.
Source: The Des Moines Register, October 15, 1944 (photo included)
Miss Pauline Dryden, first Wave to be sworn in at Waterloo, is glad she accepted the navy's invitation to see the world. Wave Dryden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Dryden, 914 Grant avenue, got her "boot" training at Hunter college in New York City and yeoman training at Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls., She is now yeoman second class, working in the personnel section at the naval air station at Ottumwa.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - May 20, 1945 (photo included)
IOWA NEWS LETTER
The cigarette shortage (which, by the way, isn't talked about nearly as much as formerly) doesn't worry Pauline Dryden, Waterloo, yeoman second class at the Ottumwa naval air station. A friend in New York, N.Y., sent her 3,000 fags she'd won on a radio network program - about a 6-month supply under the N.A.S. rationing setup.
Source: The Des Moines Sunday Register, July 22, 1945
