Clayton County

 
Pfc. Bernita J. White

 

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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PFC. BERNITA J. WHITE of Guttenberg, who taught school before her enlistment in June, 1943, is now a statistician in the office of the engineering director at army air field, Hobbs, N.M.

Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943