The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-29

CHAPEL HILL, July 29.-The
81 WAVES at the Navy Pre-Fight
school here, along with $4,000 in
the naval service in the United
States and Hawaii, tomorrow will
observe the third anniversary OF
the Women's Reserve. The day
will mark the end of three years
in which the WAVES more and
more have taken over man-sized
jobs on the Navy team that is
fighting its way to final victory.
It will be a work day as usual
for those at the Pre-Flight school
work at the naval dispensary, in
the storeroom, and in the Office
or "business end' of the Navy.
But in the evening there'll be time
,out to celebrate the occasion, a
banquet in Lenoir hall exclusively
for the ladies in blue.
A Precautionary dance was
sponsored by the WAVES for the
male members of the Ships COM
pany at the Cruise club last Fri
day.
Members of the Women's Re-
serve now comprise about q per
cent of the enlisted complement at
the Pre-Flight school, more than
half of them being in the hospital
corps making their contribution to
the vital work of the schools med
ical department. For the Navy as
a whole, WAVES represent IS per
cent of the total personnel as
signed to shore establishments in
the U. S. They are on duty at
900 continental bases and in the
territory of Hawaii; they have re-
leased $4,000 men for duty afloat
or overseas, in addition to taking
over $4,000 other jobs in the great
ly expanded naval shore establish
ment.
Money and food are mighty i'm
portant to all servicemen, and
WAVES currently are responsible
for both at the Pre-Flight school.
Senior member of the Women s
Reserve at Pre-Fight and the
longest in service at Chapel Hill is
1t. Gg) Nancy M. VIM, SC W),
from Roanoke, Va. First attached
to the Viz unit of the University
of North Carolina on June IS, 1913,
she took over as disbursing Off
Ger at Pre-Flight in April, 1914,
and has been in charge of pay
roll and all disbursing accounts
ever since. Before entering the
Navy she handled civil service
payrolls for the Army Quartermas-
ter corps at Richmond. Va.
Dieitcian and mess officer is 1t.
(jg) Alice L. Branch, (W), Of
Memphis, Tenn, who has been
planning menus and keeping the
cadets food-happy since last No
vember. She is a graduate of State
Teachers college, Memphis, where
she specialized in home econom-
les.
Sixteen of TIL % enlisted
WAVES at the pre-FHght school
are serving in the naval dlspen-
sary, on general ward duty caring
for the sick, working as labora'
tory technicians, and as dental as
sistants.
About $4,000 of the Nays So,
900 Women Reservists are in the
hospital corps, and it is expected
that so per cent of the 10000 re-
cruits now being sought for the
service will be assigned to hos
pital corps duties. The need grows
greater with the steadily increas-
ing casualty lists from the Pacific.
Six enlisted WAVES at Pre-.
Flight are performing yeoman
duties, while seven are busy al
storekeeper assignments, two Of
them in the disbursing office.
All of the enlisted WAVES are
housed in Alexander hall, a pre-.
war University dormitory, where
they live two to a room and en-
joy the benefits of a recreation
room and facilities for preparing
that late evening snack before
Uniting the SACK Athletic facili.
ties available to them include the