IOWA WAACs COMPLETE TRAINING
The six Iowa WAAC officer candidates who will be graduated and get their gold bars in ceremonies at Fort Des Moines Saturday got together to discuss their hopes for the future. From left to right are: Irene O. Galloway of Templeton; Ruth Elizabeth Woods of Des Moines; Helen C. Grote of Neola; Mrs. Kola Snyder of Council Bluffs; Elizabeth Louise Flanagan of Cedar Rapids, and Mrs. Marcella Miller McCue of Greely. Officer course is being completed by 243 women.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, September 11, 1942 (photo included)
S.U.I. Women and the WAC
Former students and Alumnae Now Serve Overseas and in Army Bases Throughout This Country
DES MOINES -- Take a cross section of American women - and you have the WAC. Take a cross section of the higher-education WAC groups, and you have S.U.I. WACs.
They range from captain to private. You find them working for Uncle Sam wearing his uniform in every part of the country. There's one in England; there's another in Africa; there's a third simply "overseas". You'll find them at the air bases driving trucks, tanks, and jeeps at army camps, working in army hospitals, sending out messages by radio, teaching army subjects to army people.
Here is a partial list of them -- Iowa home girls only -- where they are and what they are doing since they switched from S.U.I to G.I.
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CAPT. RUTH ELIZABETH WOODS of Des Moines of the second officer candidate class, composed of women selected from civilian life for officer's training, holds the coveted position of adjutant at Champaign, Ill. She taught school and was a supervisor at the ordnance plant in Des Moines before enlisting. Captain Woods who was commissioned a second lieutenant in September 1942, skipped the first lieutenancy and was made a captain last December. Following a special course of study at the inspector general school in Washington, D.C, she was inspector for the sixth service command headquarters unit in Chicago before being transferred to Champaign for her present assignment.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943
