Ensign Carolyn Davis (right) and Mary Jean Buckley
Ensign Carolyn Davis, 24, WAVES recruiting officer who arrived in Des Moines Monday, lost no time getting to work.
Within a few hours she had enlisted Mary Jean Buckley, 20, of 5828 Walnut Hill drive, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Buckley is Des Moines branch manager of the Western Newspaper Union.
Miss Buckley has been employed by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as a telephone and teletype operator and rate clerk.
She was graduated from Roosevelt High school where she was a member of the student council for two years and attended Iowa State college, Ames, Ia., for one year.
The new WAVE will be sent to the communications school at Madison, Wis.
Ensign Davis was graduated from the first officer training class of the WAVES at Smith college in Northampton, Mass.
Her home is as Lincoln, Neb., where she was graduate from the University of Nebraska.
For three and a half years she has been supervisor of interviewers at the Chicago, Ill. office of the United States employment service.
Source: DesMoines Register, October 14, 1942 (photo included)
IOWA WAVES AT TRAINING SCHOOL
Newly enrolled WAVES from Iowa, still in civilian clothes, and "old timers" attending the radio training schools on the University of Wisconsin campus, meet in one of the lounges at the student Memorial union. John McCraw, left above, is giving new recruits the "lowdown". Pictures are, left to right, McCraw, Carrol Frounfelter of Rockwell City, Ia., Mary Jean Buckley of Des Moines; John Benjamion; Victoria Kaczmarek; Frances Ely of Des Moines; and Marguerite Joyner.
Source: DesMoines Register, February 28, 1943 (photo included)
Iowans at WAVES Training School
Enjoying a game of table tennis in the basement of the University of Wisconsin Memorial union at Madison, Wis., are Mary Jean Buckley (left), Des Moines, and Carrol Frounfelter, Rockwall City, Ia., members of the second class of WAVES to begin training at the naval radio school at the University of Wisconsin.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - March 18, 1943 (photo included)
