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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CORP. DORIS E. MANN of Lakeview, who was an attorney before her enlistment a year ago, continues to do work of a legal nature in the WAC. Following basic training at Ft. Des Moines, she was assigned to Ft. Custer, Mich., as legal adviser to the staff of army emergency relief. She also conducts investigations. Corporal Mann is the only WAC to have had any training in the military government school. She was assigned to the provost Marshall general's military government school for reserve officers at Ft. Custer, Mich., a branch of the main school at Charlotteville, Va. Corporal Mann is a member of the Iowa State Bar association. She took her law degree at Drake university.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943
