WAAC Officer Candidates
Five Iowa women who were sworn in as WAAC officer candidates here Wednesday watched as one of their group, Jeanne Hardin of Dubuque, put finishing touches on a knitted sweater. From left, the candidates are Jane Courson and Eva Yost, Des Moines; Pauline McNally, Waterloo; Miss Hardie and Mrs. Vera Stiver, also of Des Moines.
Source: The Des Moines Tribune, August 5, 1942 (photo included)
Waterloo Girls in WAAC
Both former students of Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls and Columbia university, New York, the Misses Pauline McNally and Christine Tollefson of Waterloo, are officer candidates in the women's army auxiliary corps at Fort Des Moines.
Miss McNally, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.M. McNally, 2720 East Fourth street, has been employed in the children's department of the west side public library this past year, and was employed there three years before taking a course in the Columbia university's library school of science, graduating in 1940.
Miss Tollefson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Tollefson, 410 Clay street, has been teaching in the Columbia high school, South Orange, N.J. for the past 10 years.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - August 7, 1942 (photo included)
Sioux City Woman Among W.A.A.C.’s to Be Commissioned
Fort Des Moines—One hundred twenty-three officer candidates of the women’s army auxiliary corps will be commissioned third officers at the Seventh graduating exercise at the training center Saturday.
The class includes six Iowan’s;
The Iowan’s: Clara Jane Courson, Belmond; Mary Bernadine Dinneen, Melrose; Elaine Clara Homan, Remsen; Pauline Mary McNally, Waterloo; Vera Ervin Stiver, Des Moines; Eloise Norma Wissing (1723 S. Patterson) Sioux City.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 1942
Where Are Those GI Janes Since They've Again Become Civilians?
What has happened to those Waterloo girls who looked so smart in Wave, Wac or Spar uniforms, traveled the country and the world and the were discharged from service to return to civilian life?
Well, many of them were married while in the service and have settled in other states or brought their husbands to Waterloo to live. Still others entered new fields of work and have gone on to college through the benefits of education provision of the GI bill of rights.
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Also living in the east is Mrs. Anthony Kaires who was Wac Capt. Pauline McNally, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.M. McNally, 2720 East Fourth street, before her marriage. Her husband is a lieutenant commander stationed in St. Albans navy hospital in Queens, Long Island, N.Y., and she is living in nearby Jamaica.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - Sunday, March 9, 1947
