Evening star., 1943-08-29

s'sSssa saal414A G m m u n t Y
It. " NJ. smithson. Chest drives, the
Metropolitan Boys Club, civilian
defense work and Florence Critten-
ton Home activities. Prior to enter
ing the service, 1t. Smithson was
editor of the Monthly Catalog of
Public Documents
FORT OGLETHORPE. Ga.-First
1t. Elizabeth A, McHugh. who for
five years was director of emplov-
ment for the Works Progress Ad-
miniStration in Washington, has
been made classification and assign
ment officer here at the Third WAC
Training Center. A graduate of the
Office Candidate School. Fort Des
Moines Iowa, and the Adjutant Gen
erals School, Fort Washington. Md.
she formerly served at the Second
WAC Training Center at Daytona
Beach, Fla.
Begins Basic Training.
Pvt. Elizabeth Sigsbee Small.
daughter of Mrs. Robert Small, 1924
Belmont road NV, has begun her
basic training here at the Third
WAC Training Center. A cousin
of 1t Gen. Thomas Holcomb, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, and
granddaughter of Admiral Charles
S. Sigsbee. who was in command
of the battleship Maine when it was
blown up, she was employed by the
National Geographic Society for 16
years, travelling extensively in
Europe and the West Indies. Prior
to entering the service, she was
active in civilian defense work in
the District, as air raid warden, in
structor in gasses and bombs and as
night chief of the civilian protec-
ton section of the American
Women's Voluntary Services.
Another Washingtonian who has
begun her basic training here at the
Third WAC Training Center is Pvt.
Elizabeth English Benson, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Minnie H. Benson, Fred
erick, Md. Formerly an assistant
professor of speech at Gallaudet
College, she was a member of the
American Womens Voluntary Serv-
ices prior to entering the service
Pvt. Benson attended the Maryland
State Normal School, ToWson, Md,
George Washington University and
Gallaudet College She also is a
graduate of the Washington College
of Law and a member of the Dis
tricts Women's Bar Association.
Four Washingtonians Shifted.
Four Washington women who
have been stationed here at the
Third WAC Training Center have
received new assignments. They are
Pvts. Marjorie Victoria O'kelliher,
daughter of Col. v. j. O'Kelliher,
1925 Fulton street NV, who has
been assigned to a WAC communi-
cations company here; Louise Es-
telle Inman. 1408 Girard street NV.
who will go to Fort Mason, San
Francisco, Calf; Amelia M. James.
daughter of Mrs. Helen James, l412
Perry place NV. who has been Or
dered to Fort Moultrie, S. c., and
Dorothy E. Savage, daughter of
Mrs. Grace O. Savage, 2730 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV, who will report to
Fort Knox, KY.
lockwood ARSENAL. Md
Pvt. Helen Gargas, 1924 U street
Sc, has been promoted to corpo.'sl
here at the Chemical Warfare Serv-
ice where she is on duty.
81 Begin WAVE Training.
HUNTER COLLEGE. N. Y
Twenty one women from the WASH
ington area have reported here for
training as WAVES. They are
Helen Alberta Amick, 628 Maryland
avenue, Cumberland, Md; Sara Ell
len Anderson, 1912 Hobart street
NV; Marilyn Ola Evenson, lot
North Irving street, Arlington, Va;
Margaret Schellhaus Flake, 800
Fayette street, Cumberland, Md,
June Jacqueline Grisham, 1926 Ne
vada avenue NV: Charlotte Hins-
ley Guthrie, Beverly Park Gardens,
Alexandria. Va; Clara Belle Hardy,
1915 Tenth street NV; Eleanor
Catherine Hoffman, 1904 Fourth
street NV; Nellie Maye Hyatt. 14Ol
Fairmont street NV; Margaret
Jean Jackson, 1858 Monroe street
NV.
Frances Louise Masincup, 140o
Sixteenth street NV; Jean Iona
Swartout, 200 South Abingdon street,
Arlington, Va; Lorraine Cecilia
Messink, 526 Oneida place NV;
Gertrude Mohler Nicholson, It'll
Emerson road, West Lanham Hills.
Md; jeanette Penso, 1850 Irving
street NV; Christine Edith Purcell,
4704 Fifth street NV; Harriet
Rubin, 1924 Vermont avenue NV:
Virginia Kathryne Straightiff. 27l5
Connecticut avenue NV; Evelyn
Margaret Too