Miss Jean Opstad left Iowa City Saturday for Washington, D.C., where she will take Red Cross training preliminary to an overseas assignment as a recreation staff assistant. Miss Opstad is the daughter of Supt. and Mrs. Iver A. Opstad, 613 East Bloomington street. A graduate of Iowa City high school and the University of Iowa, she has been a music teacher in the Muscatine schools.
Source: The Iowa City Press Citizen, Septemeber 18, 1944
Jean Opstad Is Serving Overseas With Red Cross
Word has been received by the Red Cross officials here that Miss Jean Opstad, 700 Sycamore street, has been employed as a staff member of the National Red Cross and reported to duty Sept. 18 as a staff assistant in an overseas Red Cross Club.
Prior to entering the Red Cross service, Miss Opstad was a music and literature instructor at the junior high school.
Source: Muscatine Journal News Tribune, September 27, 1944
Miss Jean Opstad and her brother, Sgt. Elwood Opstad, who were shown in an NEA Telephoto reprinted in Friday's Courier holding a reunion somewhere in Italy, are the niece and nephew of Mrs. C. E. Haldum, 824 West Second street. The brother and sister whose home is in Iowa City, Ia., met while Sergeant Opstad was being treated for wounds received while flying with a B-17 bomber group and his sister was serving as a Red Cross staff assistant in the hospital he was taken to.
Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA - December 15, 1944 (photo included)
Miss Jean Opstad and her brother, Sgt. Elwood Opstad, who were shown in an NEA Telephoto reprinted in Friday's Courier holding a reunion somewhere in Italy, are the niece and nephew of Mrs. C. E. Haldum, 824 West Second street. The brother and sister whose home is in Iowa City, Ia., met while Sergeant Opstad was being treated for wounds received while flying with a B-17 bomber group and his sister was serving as a Red Cross staff assistant in the hospital he was taken to.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - December 17, 1944
WOMEN IN SERVICE
Serving the armed forces in Italy as an American Red Cross staff assistant is Miss Jean D. Opstad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Iver A. Opstad, 613 East Bloomington street. Before entering service, she taught music in the Muscatine junior high school.
Miss Opstad was graduated from the Iowa City high school and the University of Iowa, where she was affiliated with Delta Detla Delta sorority.
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen, January 19, 1945 (photo included)
