Ten Sioux City Women Learn About Army in Waac Centers
Many Hope to See Service Abroad After Training
Other Waacs in training at Des Moines include Elva K. Davenport, Gladys R. Yeaman and Alfreda Zinser. Auxiliaries Kathryn M. Bolte and Irma L. Richardson are stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia and Auxiliary Hazel J. Hofstad is stationed with a Waac aircraft warning service company in Richmond, Virginia.
March was named “Waacruiting month” by Gov. Bourke B. Hickenlooper. The drive will be climaxed here on March 19 and 20, when the Waac recruiting team will visit the city to enlist new members.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 9, 1943
Men & Women In Service
Third Officer Gladys R. Yeaman was commissioned in the women’s army corps July 31 at the first Wac training center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Third Officer Yeaman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs George Yeaman, 2122 S. St. Aubin Street.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, August 6, 1943 (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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LIEUT. GLADYS R. YEAMAN of Sioux City is pursuing her legal career at the army air base, San Bernardino, Calif., where she is on duty in the judge advocate's department. Before her enlistment in September, 1942, she was an attorney, in partnership with her father and brother. Following basic training at Ft. Des Moines, she was assigned to Washington, D.C. and Ft. Myers, Va., where she did investigatory work. She was commissioned a second lieutenant on July 31. Lieutenant Yeaman is a member of the Quota club.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943
