Salute by a WAVE to 5 Recruits
OFF TO JOIN THE WAVES, the five young women in civilian clothes in the picture take a lesson in saluting from Yeoman Third Class Maurene Munger, 1921 First avenue SE. The Waves-to-be are (left to right) Phyllis Gress, 203 First avenue SW; Betty Brown, 1220 Third avenue SE; Doris Fink, 1406 First street NW; Gertrude Hoyle, 2208 Fruitland boulevard SW, and Claire Roberts, 1015 Third avenue SE. Yeoman Munger, home on leave, will leave soon for duty at the Atlanta, Ga., naval air base. The picture was taken Monday afternoon as the 5 entrained for Des Moines.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 18, 1943 (photo included)
AS ONE YEOMAN TO ANOTHER .. Phyllis Sullivan, 417 Ninth street NW, of the Waves, took time out last week to explain the mysteries of navy yeomanry to Betty Brown, 1220 Third avenue SE, who hopes to be a yeoman soon.
Miss Brown will be sworn into the women's auxiliary to the navy at Cedar Rapids' first mass enlistment of women into the military organization scheduled for Friday evening, May 28, at the Cedar Rapids Memorial coliseum.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 23, 1943 (photo included)
