Front row: left to right: Lois Raskelly, Madeline Spelletich, Rosemary Schlak, Doris Finck and Betty Schmidt
Second row: Maxine Decker, Mable McNamara, Miriam Money, Ann Brooks, Barbra Bates, Fern Cather and Ensign Lucille Schoenfield
Third row: Mildred Filmer, Margarette Francis, Helen Crum, Sophie Peel, Margraten Goff and Betty Durand
Group of Enlistees in WAVES; Will Go to Hunter College Next Month
Shown above with Ensign Lucille Schoenfield, a recruiting officer, are some of the 36 girls who have enlisted in the WAVES, and received thier physical examinations Wednesday at the Hotel Blackhawk. They were sworn in by Lieut. William Black of Chicago, USN, with the exception of Miss McNamara, who will be sworn in next month when she has her 20th birthday.
Similar examinations are being held today for another group of 35 enlistees, secures during the 30-day campaign being conducted in the tri-cites.
One group of enlistees will leave for Hunter college in New York on Aug. 14; another group on Aug. 2; and still another on Aug. 28.
Source: The Daily Times, July 22, 1943 (photo included)
TWO SCOTT COUNTY WOMEN RESERVISTS ON ACTIVE DUTY
Alice Elizabeth "Betty" Durand, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Durand, 1006 Harrison street, and Jane Conkleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Conkleton, R.R. No. 1, Donahue, yeoman on the women's reservists, have reported for active duty to the chief of naval operations, Washington, D.C.
The two Scott County women graduated from the naval training school for yeoman at Oklahoma A&M university, Stillwater, Okla. After experience at their new station assignment, they will be eligible for higher advancement in the petty officer ratings.
Source: Quad-City Times, Davenport IA - December 5, 1943
