LEAVES FOR WAAC DUTY
Miss Elizabeth Chavannes, who has been visiting her father, Adrian J. Chavannes of the Globe Publishing Co. here, and her aunt at Altoona, Ia., left last week for Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for active duty with the WAAC.
Miss Chavannes, a Roosevelt High school graduate has been working in the editorial medical department of the American Medical association's publications at Chicago, Ill. After her graduation from Grinnell (Ia.) college, she obtained a Doctor's degree in botany at the University of Wisconsin.
In addition to research work there, she did pen and ink illustrations for a book on water plants published by the university. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and national journalism fraternity.
Source: The DesMoines Register, May 3, 1943 (photo included)
Four Iowa Women In WAC Graduation
Four Iowa women are among the graduates of the 36th officer candidate class which will be commissioned at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Allen circle at the first WAC training center at Fort Des Moines.
Robert Burlingame, radio station WHO newsman, will address the class, the second to be graduated since the WAC became a part of the army.
The Iowans are Elizabeth Chavannes, Altoona; Orla L. Geick, Rock Rapids, Adela M. Peterson, Council Bluffs and Elsie M. Olson, Davenport.
Source: The DesMoines Register, July 13, 1943
