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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PVT. BETTY J. MORCK of Ontario, who has three brothers in service, is pursuing her nursing career at the army-navy hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. In addition she is studying to be a medical technician and is taking courses in surgery. Previous to her enlistment in July, she was a nurses aid at Mary Greely hospital, Ames. Private Morck had her basic training at Ft. Oglethorpe. Two of her brothers, Richard and Sophus, Jr., are is the navy. The third, Galen, is in the army.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943
WOMEN IN SERVICE
BETTY MORCK HOME ON LEAVE
T/5 Betty Morck is expected home today to visit the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Sophus Morck at Ontario, Ia. She has been in service in the Tilton General hospital at Fort, Dix, N.J. She will also enjoy visiting with her brother, Galen, whom she has not seen for three years and who is also home on furlough.
Source: Ames Daily Tribune, March 20, 1945
