Girls Enlist in WAVES Together
Together from the days of kindergarten to "bobby socks" they're making sure they stay together - unless the navy sees differently.
Mary Jane McClure and Kathryn Cowles have been enlisted in the WAVES are hoping to be stationed together.
McClure, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. McClure, 2607 Fifth avenue, is employed as a headquarters clerk at the Union Pacific.
Cowles, a stenographer in the personnel department of the American Smelting and Refining company of Omaha, is the granddaughter of Mrs. May Cherry, 2018 Third avenue.
Both were graduated form Thomas Jefferson high school in 1940 and have brothers in the service.
As to being stationed together, they're reasonably sure of going through "boots" at the same time and place and according to Cowles -- we'll be in the navy then and it'll be up to them.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, May 12, 1944 (photo included)
Two Local Girls Finish Training
Two Council Bluff girls have completed their basic training and indoctrination course at the Naval Training school for WAVES, the Bronx, New York, and have received orders to report for further instructions at various naval establishments in the nation.
Mary Jane McClure, seaman 2/c, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. McClure, 2607 Fifth avenue, will report to the Anti-aircraft gunnery school, naval training station, Great Lakes, Ill. Before her enlistment, Seaman McClure was employed as clerk with the Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha. She attended Simpson College.
Kathryn Ann Cowles, seaman 2/c, 22, granddaughter of Mrs. Mae Cherry, 2018 Third avenue, will report to the U.S. naval hospital corps school, Bethesda, Md. Before her enlistment, Seaman Cowles was employed as stenographer in the American Smelting and Refining company She is a graduate of the Thomas Jefferson high school.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, August 16, 1944
