Evening star., 1942-12-20
Central High School to Honor
WAAC as Ranking AIumnus
1t. Mory-Agnes Brown to Be Cited
Saturday With Admiral, Banker, Judge

the inevitable result, not only of
the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
and other uniformed services, but of
women in industry and the hcmes
who are sharing the responsibilities
of this war. Out of this sharing,
she believes, a new era in human
relations is unfolding which will be
factor in helping men and women
in living and working together with
greater understanding and respect.
1t may be, she pointed out, that
there is already evidence of this
in the fact that several girls schools
throughout the country have con-
verted courses of study into pro-
grams calculated to train young
women for more useful lives. An
other significant educational straw
in the wind, she declared, may be
the formation of girl cadet COM
panies in the District of Columbia
at the Anacostia High School and
the Mckinley High.
1t. Brown is a graduate of the
first WAAC officers training CEN
ter at Fort Des Moines and has
seen the development of the corps.
Units are now operating in 20
States. Personnel attends to duties
as clerks, secretaries, motor trans
port drivers, telephone and radio
operators, cooks and bakers and
other jobs. WAAC officers are in
sole charge of administering the
welfare and discipline of these units,
under the supervision of the COM
manding officer of the post to which
they are attached. In addition to
this, WAACS are in operation of
aircraft warning companies and
information and filter stations in 10
different States. They perform
such duties as plotters, tellers, clerks
and machine operators.
Drill Heightens Discipline.
1t. Brown expressed regrets that
WAACS back at desk jobs no longer
have the opportunity to drill that
they did at Fort Des Moines. Drill
ing" she declares, makes for preci-
sion, builds an esprit de corps and
enables one to realize that one can
not give orders until one has learned
to take them
Women are having their part in
the issues being tried today, not only
on the traditional battlefields but in
the more numerous theaters of op-
Grafton which total warfare has Gre
ated," says 1t. Brown. This trial is
taking place-in factories and Of
fees, mines and farms, communica-
ton systems, homes and churches
In every phase of life which recoils
against the threat of slavery. Those
OF us who are serving in uniform
have a well-deflned mission which
we shall perform with increasing
vigor. 1t is to speed the day when
free men shall finally determine
that democracy must continue to be
the instrument by which their lives
are governed. To this purpose our
lives are dedicated in the service OF
our country and that of the Allies"
1t. Brown has her B. A., LII. B
and doctor Of juridical science from
the George Washington University
and holds membership in Sigma
Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon Journal
istic Sorority and the Phi Delta So
rority. She is member of the Dis
trict of Columbia bar, Federal bar
and bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and was the assistant
editor of Federal Laws Relating to
Veterans Of Wars of the United
States" published by the Seventy
second Congress A linguist to whom
Spanish presents no difficulties. 1t
Brown has travelled extensively in
Latin American countries and spe-
cialized in both cultural and legal
subjects at the sessions of the Uni
versity of Mexico.