SISTERS JOIN WAVES - Miss Jeannette Schlack (left) and Miss Rosemary Schlack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schlack, 2119 Scott street, had joined the WAVES.
Miss Rosemary Schlack has completed her training at Hunter college, New York City, and is now a member of the musical department at the college. She is a seaman, second class. She has appeared in many bond drive programs in New York City and represented the WAVEs at Vincent Lopez and Major Bowes programs. She also sang at the Stanton Island Halioran hospital for soldiers wounded in Sicily and Tunisia. She was well known in the Tri-cities as a vocalist.
Both girls are graduates of the Immaculate Conception academy. Miss Jeannette Schlack will leave Oct. 5 for her training at Hunter college. She has been employed by International Harvester Co. for the past nine years.
Source: The Quad City Times, September 28, 1943 (photo of each sister included)
Sisters are Serving in WAVES
Rosemary Schlack, at microphone, Jeannette Schlack, in uniform
Two Davenport sisters who are finding definite fields for wartime service in the WAVES are Rosemary and Jeannette Schlack, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schlack, 2119 Scott street.
Jeannette is at home at present prior to taking up duties at the United States Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, Ill. She has just finished her course at the storekeeper's school at the Georgia State college for Women in Milledgeville, Ga., which she entered following basic training at Hunter college, New York. She has a third class petty officer rating.
Rosemary, who was a well known vocalist and entertainer in the tri--cities, is continuing in her particular line, and as a seaman, first class, is attached to the band office at Hunter college where she arranges music schedules and broadcasts, and it featured on many programs.
The talented young woman since each Thursday at 3:30 p.m. over the Mutual Broadcasting Co, chain on "A Full Speed Ahead" program, a navy feature designed especially for the navy men outside of the United States. She appears at the Stage Door Canteen and war bond rallies in New York and at hospitals in that vicinity.
Source: The Daily Times, January 27, 1944 (photos included)
IOWA WAVES -- Two WAVES from Iowa study a pair of charts on food values which are used to instruct chief commissary stewards at the U.S. naval training center at Great Lakes. Both girls are assigned to duty in the commissary education office. Jeannette Schlack, storekeeper, third class (left) is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F.C. Schlak, 2119 Scott street, Davenport. Betty Jean Nelson, storekeeper third class, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Nelson, Storm Lake, Ia.
Source: The Daily Times, July 30, 1944 (photo included)
Jeannette T. Schlak, 2119 Scott street, Davenport, was one of 10 officers and 203 enlisted members of the Women's Reserve, U.S. naval reserve, who sailed recently from a west coast port for duty in Hawaii. The group constituted the first contingent of navy women to sail for overseas duty, the vanguard of approximately 5,000 women who have been requested by various naval activities in the 14th naval district.
There were no scenes of tearful goodbyes or other similar peacetime sailing scenes as the uniformed women boarded their troopship. Only a navy band and port director officers were on the docks to bid the women farewell. Their sailing date kept secret to insure safe passage of the big ship which transported them. The leading of American's first overseas navy women was carried out methodically and quickly.
Prior to their embarkation shortly after Christmas, the 213 women had been trained for their new duties at a nearby west coast navy distribution center. The majority of these women will replace men for assignments with the fleet or for return to the Untied States under the rotation program.
Source: The Daily Times, January 11, 1945 (photo included)
