LINE UP FOR A RIDE
Six Iowa women, applicants for enlistment in the WAAC as basic auxiliaries (private), line up at the army recruiting office for a ride to Fort Des Moines army post. From left are Charlotte James, Charlotta Evans, Nina Talbott, Margaret Bultman, Mabel Clark and Miriam Holst. They expected to take the WAAC oath after final physical examination and interviews.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, August 7, 1942 (photograph included)
Miss Miriam Evans, former hostess at Hotel Utah and Salt Lake City, Utah, arrived Sunday morning from San Francisco, Cal., where she was accepted as a Red Cross recreational worked, to visit with her father, Homer Evans, 1109 Twenty-eighth st. She is leaving today to spend a few days with her sister, Lieut. Charlotta Evans of the WAC at Duluth, Minn. The two will return to Des Moines Dec 24. Lieutenant Evans will return to Duluth Christmas night, and Miss Evans will leave for Washington D.C., to begin training for overseas duty.
Source: The DesMoines Register, December 16, 1943
Promotions
Charlotta Evans, of Des Moines, to captain in the WAC, in Manila.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, September 13, 1945
Miss Charlotta Evans, formerly of Des Moines, has concluded a visit with Misses Alice Boyer and Margaret Brick, 848 Twenty -ninth st and has left for the east. She will sail July 1 from Quebec, Canada, for the island of Texel in The Netherlands, where she will work with the international council of the World Service Student organization.
Miss Evans will return in time to be enrolled for the fall semester at the University of Chicago, where she will completed her last semester for an M.A. degree.
During the summer she will visit her sister, Miss Miriam Evans, formerly of Des Moines, who has been employed by the U.S. government for the last three years in Wetzlar, Germany.
Source: The DesMoines Register, June 20, 1948
