TWO SWORN INTO WAVES -- Miss Dorothy Schoop, 111 East Locust, on the left and Miss Virginia Lee Cross, 818 West Fourteenth streets, are shown above being sworn into the WAVES at the local recruiting station by Ensign Nadine Holliday, Des Moines, office of naval office procurement. Miss Schoop has been employed in the accounting department at Voss Brothers and Miss Cross was employed in the production department of the same firm. They will leave soon for Hunter college, the Bronx, N.Y to start their training.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport, Iowa, September 6, 1943 (photo included)