IOWA WAACs COMPLETE TRAINING
The six Iowa WAAC officer candidates who will be graduated and get their gold bars in ceremonies at Fort Des Moines Saturday got together to discus their hopes for the future. From left to right are: Irene O. Galloway of Templeton; Ruth Elizabeth Woods of Des Moines; Helen C. Grote of Neola; Mrs. Kola Snyder of Council Bluffs; Elizabeth Louise Flanagan of Cedar Rapids, and Mrs. Marcella Miller McCue of Greely. Officer course is being completed by 243 women.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, September 11, 1942 (photo included)
Lieuts Bell, Flanagan Visit Coe Campus
Lieut. Mary Bell, former dean of women, and Lieut. Elizabeth Flanaghan, '41, daughter of Col. Flanaghan, both members of the W.A.A.C visited the Coe campus Saturday and Monday morning. Lieut. Bell is on her way to a new station and Lieut Flanagan is stationed at Ft. Des Moines.
Lieut Bell was one of the first two women from Iowa taken into the organization. Since receiving her commission she has been teaching company administration at Ft. Des Moines.
Source: Coe Cosmos, September 30, 1942
11 IOWA WAACS ARE ADVANCED
Washington, D.C. -- Promotions for eleven Iowans in the women's army auxiliary corps were announce Tuesday night.
The following officers were advanced to the rank of first officer, the WAAC equivalent of captain: Clara G. Han, 1063 Twenty-first st, Des Moines; Marion C. Lichty, Waterloo; Kathleen McClure, Iowa Falls, and Helen E. Hanson, 726 Guthrie st, Des Moines.
Promoted from the rank of third officer to second officer, WAAC equivalent of first lieutenant: Clara J. Courson, Belmond; Elizabeth L. Flanagan, Cedar Rapids; Kola S. Gallagher, Council Bluffs; Vera E. Stiver, 4309 Allison ave., Des Moines; Jeanne E. Hardie, Dubuque and Marcella M. McCue, Greeley.
Source: The Des Moines Register, April 21, 1943
COE GETS TOGETHER OVERSEAS
In the midst of a Coe reunion in Manila are, from left to right, Miss Dora Jane Hamblin, Red Cross, Sgt. George Shultz, Capt. Elizabeth Flanagan, Capt. N. Milton Swomley, Major Thomas N. Stewart, Carl Kane, yeoman (2/c) and Master Sgt. Loyal Meek
Fall Meeting, Coe Alumni Club in Manila
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Miss Hamblin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hamblin of Bedford (also Coe graduates), has been overseas for more than a year. Now temporarily transferred to Okinawa, she will move to Tokyo within a few weeks. (Dispatches by Miss Hamblin, a former Gazette reporter, frequently appear in The Gazette.)
Capt. Betty Flanagan and Miss Hamblin ran across each other in Port Moresby last November before coming to Manila. Captain Flanagan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Flanagan, is in charge of a larger censorship office composed chiefly of Filipino civilian censors. A member of the WACs for over three years, she has been overseas for fifteen months.
Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids IA - September 16, 1945 (group photo included)
