Front row: left to right: Lois Raskelly, Madeline Spelletich, Rosemary Schlak, Doris Finck and Betty Schmidt
Second row: Maxine Decker, Mable McNamara, Miriam Money, Ann Brooks, Barbra Bates, Fern Cather and Ensign Lucille Schoenfield
Third row: Mildred Filmer, Margarette Francis, Helen Crum, Sophie Peel, Margraten Goff and Betty Durand
Group of Enlistees in WAVES; Will Go to Hunter College Next Month
Shown above with Ensign Lucille Schoenfield, a recruiting officer, are some of the 36 girls who have enlisted in the WAVES, and received thier physical examinations Wednesday at the Hotel Blackhawk. They were sworn in by Lieut. William Black of Chicago, USN, with the exception of Miss McNamara, who will be sworn in next month when she has her 20th birthday.
Similar examinations are being held today for another group of 35 enlistees, secures during the 30-day campaign being conducted in the tri-cites.
One group of enlistees will leave for Hunter college in New York on Aug. 14; another group on Aug. 2; and still another on Aug. 28.
Source: The Daily Times, July 22, 1943 (photo included)
Home on Initial Leave From Duty With the WAVES
Maxine Decker, daughter of Mrs. Martha Decker, 602 West Third street, specialist (Y) third class in the WAVES, is here visiting her mother and relatives in Davenport.
She is stationed at the navy field at Gainesville, Ga, on temporary duty from her base at Atlanta. She is charged with the responsibility of directing planes into the field by radio telling them what runway to use, the wind velocity, and such other details as may be required.
Maxine enlisted in the WAVES last August and received her"boot" training at Hunter college, New York, following which she attended the control tower school at Atlanta. In starting her leave she flew in an army bomber plane from Atlanta to Chicago.
Prior to enlisting in the WAVES she was employed at the Davenport Bank & Trust.
Source: The Daily Times, March 21, 1944 (photo included)
