Miss Cay A. Wells, 23, of 222 Franklin street, Thursday had been accepted as a member of the Waves and was awaiting call to Hunter college, New York, to start her training as an enlisted member of the reserve. For 14 months Miss Wells has been a student here at Gates college. She also has been a saleswoman, artist and typist for Sweeney's women's wear shop. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Wells, Roselle Park, N.J. she is expecting her call within a month. Two cousins, Richard Wells and Forrest Scanlon, both former Manchester Ia/, residents, are in the navy, the former in Trinidad and the latter in a Tennessee training station. Miss Wells plans to go soon to her parents' home for a visit.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - April 29, 1943 (photo included)
Reunion in Washington
Visiting a service center in Washington, D.C., recently, Cay Wells, a WAVE of Waterloo, Ia., and Pvt. Richard Gage of Manchester, Ia. met for the first time since the war started. They were schoolmates back in civilian days.
Source: The DesMoines Register, June 10, 1944 (photo included)
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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Miss Cay A. Wells who is a native of New Jersey but worked as artist and typist for a Waterloo women's dress shop before enlisting in the Waves is ow an art major at the Cedar Falls college.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - Sunday, March 9, 1947
