The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-28

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 Mary Ann was Asst. State Di- rector of Recreation for the State of Indiana before she joined the Red Cross With so many thousands of males about, it seems incredible that romance should not be knocking at her door, but Mary Ann claims she is so busy that there is hardly time for concentrating on one man.
 Ruggedness of Work
 Margaret Becker, staff assistant at the service club, who formerly was secretary of a psychiatric hos pital in New York City, emphasizes the ruggedness of the life as Red Cross hostess.
 Arriving in Alaska several months ago, Margaret was pitched headlong into the whirl of activities. The first week she attended an underground dance in messhall. Wishing to please the men, she removed her rather plain uniform and put on something fluffier. T didn't count the number of soldiers I danced with. but later found this averaged 56 cut-ins during any given eve ningl"
 Fluffy Dress-Trouble
 Another Red Cross girl, Nancy Meister, of Sacramento. Calf, made the mistake of wearing something a little too fluffy to the same dance and was cut-in on 43 times during one numberl
 Margaret found it a little difficult to walk following her first three or four GI. dances, but now she is hardened T can dance all evening with innumerable soldiers and never tire" she claims. Not only that. I have learned all the little steps and pecularities of dancing from the var ious sections of the country. know all the different types of. small talk too The men from Oklahoma and Texas are the funniest They flat ter the very devil out of you, but they are charming about it."
 Even the girls who do strictly clerical work for Red Cross head quarters here get out to social events --on their own time. Margaret's sister, Roberta Becker. who was formerly executive secretary for George Abbott Productions, New York, spends many of her evenings going to G.I. mess halls at the out posts, dances and other activities.
 Work Interesting
 Donna Ann Buttner, of Mill Val ley, Calif., who was technical file clerk for Shell Development Com pany before joining the Red Cross, finds her work in Alaska a means of continuing the work she has al- ways been most interested in,-so- cial and group work activities.
 '"The men, for the most part, have a girl or a wife at home, and they like to tell me about them. During the course of day talk informally and sometimes rather intimately with dozens of soldiers. I am im- pressed with their fidelity to that girl at home, although they may not have seen her for two or three years"
 Donna Ann is now a qualified expert on the likes and dislikes of the far north soldier Before com- ing to this post. she spent several months along the rugged Alaska Highway.
 Sue Easton, medical secretary from San Francisco, finds the sold- iers who come up from the Aleu- tians most fascinating. "The news papers give a lot of publicity to what the Aleutian soldier has gone through, but they tell little of what he is like,' Sue claims.
 Aleutian Boys Think
 Every so often one of the Aleu- ian boys comes into our little office n the service club. He is very shy. He stands around timidly until the ice Is broken, then he is the best alker of all. The soldiers in the .leutians are doing lot of think ing"
 All of the girls at the service club are hand picked by the Red Cross for their all around abilities, per- sonality and intelligence. Tn addi- tion, each has a specially Mary Ann Madigan is capable executive. Sue Easton is a qualified bridge expert. Donna Ann Buttner is recreational expert aSd Margaret Becker has had years of experience