Named P.R.O. At Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Detroit Mich. -- When WAC Lt. Phyllis Martha Lowe was named public relations officer at Fort Wayne, she became the first woman to hold this title in the fort's century of existence.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Lowe, 202 Twenty-ninth street NE, Cedar Rapids, Ia., Lt Lowe was engaged in the advertising business in Cedar Rapids.
She arrived at Fort Wayne in August, 1943, one of the first group of WACs to be stationed here. These Fort Wayne WAC officers were among the first assigned to understudy administrative duties held by army officers. Lt Lowe enlisted in February 1943 and was commissioned in June of that year.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, February 27, 1944 (photo included)
Lt. Phyllis M. Lowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Lowe, 202 Twenty-ninth street NE, is spending her pre-embarkation leave with her family. She will leave Sunday and will visit her sister at Long Beach enroute to the point of embarkation.
Lt. Lowe, who has been in the WAC since February 1943, was recently assigned to duty in Japan. Before receiving her overseas assignment, she was directing publicity for the Illinois recruiting district, with headquarters in Chicago. Previously she had been public relations officer for the Ft. Wayne post and ordnance depot at Detroit.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, September 19, 1946
