Another Group of Tri-City Girls Entering the WAVES
Front Row, left to right: Norma Zahler, Davenport; Hazel Ruffcorn, Moline; Virginia Fleming, Davenport; and Margaret Hannon, Davenport.
Second Row: Lila Fessenden, Marguerite Wahlig and Rosemary Doyle, of Davenport; and Joyce Seibert of Moline.
Nineteen more were sworn into the WAVES yesterday at the Hotel Blackhawk, making a total of 111 tri-city women who have chosen this branch of the service to help win the war.
One group is already at Hunter college n New York. The majority will leave on Aug. 26 fot he east, and still another group will leave on Sept. 9.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - August 17, 1943 (photo included)
