Nine women enlisted in the WAVES-SPARS and 16 men joined the navy in Des Moines Wednesday.
For Betty Jean Beverley, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Beverley, 1315 Thirty-third st., who joined the WAVES, there'll be no canoe trip this summer. She and he sister Dorothy, 17, have made a canoe trip each summer for several years in northern Minnesota. Betty Jean has been employed by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.
Source: The Des Moines Register, April 1, 1943 (photo included)
Four Des Moines girls are now on duty in Washington, D.C., as WAVES. They are Anne King, daughter of Mrs Charles E. King, 711 Seventh st; Betty Jean Beverley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Beverley, 1315 Thirty-Third st; Roberta Carper, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Carper, 11149 Twenty-eighth st; and Phyllis Kelso, daughter of Mr. J W. Kelso, Jr., 939 Thirtieth st. All hold the rating of yeoman, third class.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, October 12, 1943
