3 Iowa Girls Among WAVES First Cooks
New York, N.Y. - The navy announced Sunday that the WAVES only school for cooks and bakers, at the "U.S.S. Hunter" in the Bronx had graduated its first class, including Cleo Mortensen, Spencer, Ia.; June Cox, Mason City, Ia.; and Evelyn Palmer, Nodaway, Ia.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, November 22, 1943
