Evening star., 1944-09-24

j SWEETWATER, Tex.-Four wOm-
en- from the Washington area re-
Gently were graduated from the
Army Air Forces Training Com
mand pilot school here and were
awarded wings as WAsPS. They are;
Mrs. Velta Claudene Haney, wife
of E. Delmer Haney, Washington
National Airport, and daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert l.. Snyder,
Vienna, Va; Miss Ola Mildred Rex
roat, daughter of Mrs. Clara Rex
roat, 3os North Carolina avenue
Sc; Miss Dorothy Ann Smith,
daughter of Mrs. Helen R. Smith,
28O0 Connecticut avenue NV, and
Miss Frances E. Winter, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis E. Winter,
843 Fifty-first street Sc.
Mrs. Haney, graduate of Vienna
and New Market (Va) public
schools, was associated with Ameri-
can Airlines before joining the
WASP. Her husband Is associated
with Transcontinental and Western
Airlines.
Miss Rexroat, a graduate of the
University Of New Mexico, was for
merly employed by the civil service
in Pine Ridge, S. Oak. She began
flying about year and half ago
In Ell Paso, Tex.
Miss Smith, graduate of Wood
row Wilson High School, began fly
ing in Frederick, Md, and received
preliminary training there before
joining the WASP. Two brothers,
1t. George M. Smith, Army Air
Forces, and Navy Yeoman c. c.
Smith, are overseas.
A former student of Hendrix Col
lege, Conway, Ark. and Oklahoma
College for Women. Chickasha,
Okla, Miss Winter was formerly en-
ployed as secretary in Vicksburg,
Miss, and Little Rock, Ark.
AUSTRALIA.-Sergt. Ruby STAN
ley, Women's Army Corps, formerly
of Washington, where she was en-
ployed in clerical work, has been
promoted to staff sergeant.
Pvt. Margaret M. Smith, WAC,
of 1923 First street Sc, who is sta
toned somewhere in the Southwest
Pacific, has been promoted to private
first class.
NAPLES, Italy.-Sergt. Anne P.
Quinn, secretary of the chief ad-
ministrative officer of the Allied
force headquarters here, who for
merly worked for the British Army
staff in Washington, has been ap-
pointed warrant officer Junior
grade. Miss Quinn, who attended
New York University, was secre-
tary to the vehicle liaison officer Of
the India Supply Mission, before en-
listing in the WAC in March, 1943.
Two brothers, Ensign James J.
Quinn, Navy, and Sergt. Henry J.
Quinn, Army Air Forces, are over
seas.
ENGLAND.-Eight Washington
WACS assigned to 9Th Air Force
headquarters here have been over
seas for more than year. They are:
Sergts. Norma Peak, stenographer in
the weather squadron, of 1921 K
street NV, and Constance Supplee,
supply section, of 1929 Columbia
road NV; Corpls. Astrid Peterson,
supply section, of 2511 Legation
street NV; Margaret Frank, tele-
phone operator, of 2403 Huidekoper
place NV; Jane Hastings, clerk
typist in the ordnance division, of
5610 Fourteenth street NV, and
Barbara Carow, teletypist in the sig
nal center, of 6104 Ridge drive,
Brookmont, and Pics. Sally Bennett,
clerk in the operational research
section, of 1928 Twelfth street NV,
and Paula Edwards, stenographer in
the judge advocate section, of 1919
Georgia avenue NV.
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga.-Pvt.
Hildegard Louise Bushman, 1929
Baker street NE, who has been as
signed here at the Sd WAC Training
Center. has been transferred to the
WAC detachment at Gravelly Point.
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