The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16
BY BARLEY

Thew were Army nurses, Navy
nurses, WAVES, WACs, SPARS,
ana WRS, but they are Carolina
goods now. Almost a hundred
former service women have ex-
changed Uncle Sans uniform for
his S65 a month and are now Uni
versity Of North Carolina students.
Cardinals female veterans look
very much like the usual coed
but they have been places and
done things that make them espe-
cially different from the girls who
did not join the services. Many
women, especially Army and
Navy nurses, served overseas.
Wanda Reeves of Sparta was an
Army nurse in England, France
and Germany for % months. Ma
bel Hall of Murphy served with
the Army nurses in France, Swift
zerland, Belgium and Germany,
as did Thelma Hoffman Of Snow
Hill in England.
WAVE Alice Logan of Chapel
Hill saw VI day in Honolulu. Also
ir Hawaii was Navy nurse Ada
Boyd of Muskogee. Okla, and
Army nurse Dorothy Lunsford of
Petersburg. Va. In New Hebrides
and New Zealand was Sally Gray,
Navy nurse from Roanoke, Va.
June Watson of Kingston, N. Y,
and Clyde Hogsed Of Cornelia, Ga.
who are roommates here, were al
so together for five years as Army
nurses at Hawaii and Guam. Sta
tia Kowalski of Schenectady, N.
Y. was a Navy flight nurse with
home base at Guam. Marie Lusk
of Las Cruces, N. Mex, was with
the WACS in Australia and New
Zealand.
The jobs done by Cardinals
women veterans while they were
il service were as varied as the
places they served. Ann Beasley
Of Andalusia, Ala, was meteorol-
ogist in the Woman's Reserve Of
the Marine Corps and Maxine
shafer of Oxford, Nebr., was a
physiotherapist in the WAVE hos
pital corps. WAC Ellen Smith O.
Asheville, now starring in the
latest playmaker production, did
recruiting. The WAVES assigned
Betty Baker of Charlotte to medi-
cal technician work and Nina Lide
Of Wake Forest to temporary duty
as an usherette for theatre war
bond drives. Anita Harris of New
Rochelle, N. Y, had the special
job of being an Army nurse on
hospital trains.
Most of Cardinals women vet
Grams, however, have pushed serv-
ice travels and jobs to the back
OF their minds and are busy living
their lives today. The women are
studying more seriously and with
more purpose than non-veteran CO.
eds.
Just like the masculine veterr
ems, we women veterans have had
a few more years to dehide whatI
We want from life and we are
here to get it," Cleo Mangum.
Navy nurse from Bahama, Dur
ham county, explained. Eva Cum
bingham, WAVE from Tuscaloosa,
Ala. now studying bio-chemistry.
said that most Of the service WON,
On she knew We're carrying the
maximum number of academic
hours in order to get the most
rom the time spent in school.
i've learned that grades aren't
important at ALL" Betty Moore,
WAVE communications officer
from Winston-Salem, added. 'The|
amount Of knowledge you can ac-I
quire, whatever the professors es.|
t!mation, is the important thing"
she continued.
Chosen Caree
In many cases women veterans
are taking courses designed to aid
them in a career chosen while in
service. Lib Savage of Henderson.
WAC, now studying dramatic art
was a secretary before she bel
came interested in the stage|
through a special service group IN
England. The WACs gave La.I