QUAD-CITY RECRUITS FOR WAVES - Pictures are 22 of 30 girls of this community who will leave Wednesday for Chicago, there to join others of this Ninth naval district who will report at the United States naval training school at Hunter college, New York for their indoctrination course. This group is composed of girls who have enlisted since Jan. 1.
In this photograph, left to right are:
Front row, Harriet Trone, Pat Dixon and Elizabeth Engel, all of Rock Island; Marjorie Bettendorf, Davenport; Virginia Kile, Moline; Helen Pifer, East Moline, and Lorraine Meersman, Moline;
Second row, Ruth Saltzman, Rock Island; Gerladine Kizer, Moline; Mary Kramer, Rosemary Voelker and Laurabelle Butler, all of Rock Ialnd, and Joyce Keith and Jean Derry, both of Davenport;
Back row, Phyllis Petersen, East Moline; Natalie Otto, Rock Island; Jean Hall, Davenport; Lillian Nikischer, Rock Island; Patricia Mathews, Davenport; Betty Sprout, East Moline; Lila Coleman, Moline; and Jeannete Ames, East Moine.
Source: The Daily Times, February 22, 1944 (photograph included)
WAVE of the Day
Joyce Keith, storekeeper, third class, daughter of Mrs. Mildred Keith, 301 West Sixth street, Davenport, is home enroute to Farragut, where she will undertake her new duties.
Miss Keith enlisted in the navy in February of this year and received her "boot" training at Hunter college, New York City. She was stationed in the insurance office of Hunter for a month and then went to Georgia Sate Teacher's college where she studied to receive her third class rating.
When asked what she thinks of the WAVES, she answered, "I like it - it's the thing for me."
Storekeeper Keith was formerly employed at the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - August 1, 1944
Joyce M. Keith, storekeeper, third class, WAVES, is how on a 12-day leave from her base at Farragut, Ida. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith 1228 Main street.
Miss Keith enlisted in February, 1944, and received her training first at Hunter college, New York, then at Milledgeville, Ga., before being sent to Farragut to take up her duties as an accountant.
Source: The Daily Times, June 8, 1945 (photo included)
