Discussing the official WAAC hat at recruiting station Thursday were (left to right), Dorotha Tanner, Cedar Rapids; Golda Iowa Van Tasell, Fort Dodge, and Beulah Schaad of Burlington.
Source: The Des Moines Register, November 6, 1942
Corp. Golda I. Van Tasell, WAAC, assistant chief clerk in the central signal corps replacement training center headquarters, Camp Crowder, Mo., is spending a 10-day furlough with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Van Tasell, 1128 A avenue NW.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, April 24, 1943
6 IOWA WACS TO GRADUATE
Six Iowa women will be graduated in the thirty-seventh WAC officer candidate class Monday at Fort Des Moines training center.
The graduation will mark the first anniversary of the arrival of the WAC at Fort Des Moines.
Capt. Mary S. Bell, WAC director in the seventh service command at Omaha, Neb., and former dean of women at Coe college in Cedar Rapids, Ia., will be the speaker. She was a member of the first officer candidate graduating class.
Iowans to be graduated are: Aileen Lohrke, Nashua; Vivian V. Long, Davenport; Margaret L. Moore, Centerville; Golda I. Van Tasell, Cedar Rapids; and Dorothy A. deJong, 5004 Woodland ave., Des Moines.
Source: The Des Moines Register, July 17, 1943
Second Lt. Golda. I. Van Tasell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Van Tasell, 1128 A avenue NW, is on recruiting duty at Montgomery, Ala., but will move to a permanent assignment in recruiting at Charlotte, N.C. She takes pride in her initials: "G.I."
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, December 19, 1943
