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)
SISTERS JOIN WAVES - Miss Jeannette Schlack (left) and Miss Rosemary Schlack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schlack, 2119 Scott street, had joined the WAVES.
Miss Rosemary Schlack has completed her training at Hunter college, New York City, and is now a member of the musical department at the college. She is a seaman, second class. She has appeared in many bond drive programs in New York City and represented the WAVEs at Vincent Lopez and Major Bowes programs. She also sang at the Stanton Island Halioran hospital for soldiers wounded in Sicily and Tunisia. She was well known in the Tri-cities as a vocalist.
Both girls are graduates of the Immaculate Conception academy. Miss Jeannette Schlack will leave Oct. 5 for her training at Hunter college. She has been employed by International Harvester Co. for the past nine years.
Source: The Quad City Times, September 28, 1943 (photo of each sister included)
Sisters are Serving in WAVES
Rosemary Schlack, at microphone, Jeannette Schlack, in uniform
Two Davenport sisters who are finding definite fields for wartime service in the WAVES are Rosemary and Jeannette Schlack, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schlack, 2119 Scott street.
Jeannette is at home at present prior to taking up duties at the United States Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, Ill. She has just finished her course at the storekeeper's school at the Georgia State college for Women in Milledgeville, Ga., which she entered following basic training at Hunter college, New York. She has a third class petty officer rating.
Rosemary, who was a well known vocalist and entertainer in the tri--cities, is continuing in her particular line, and as a seaman, first class, is attached to the band office at Hunter college where she arranges music schedules and broadcasts, and it featured on many programs.
The talented young woman since each Thursday at 3:30 p.m. over the Mutual Broadcasting Co, chain on "A Full Speed Ahead" program, a navy feature designed especially for the navy men outside of the United States. She appears at the Stage Door Canteen and war bond rallies in New York and at hospitals in that vicinity.
Source: The Daily Times, January 27, 1944 (photos included)
