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Cedar Rapids girl earns outstanding trainee honor at Fort McClellan
Pvt. Betty L. Rife, former McKinley high student, is named outstanding trainee at the WAC training center Fort McClellan Alabama. Previous Iowa honoree was Pvt. Mary E. Phelps. Rife, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Rife, is assigned to clerical training and studied typing after basic training.
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McKinley High School
Cedar Rapids
Fort McClellan
Ala
WAC
Betty L. Rife
John J. Rife
Mary E. Phelps
Charles R. Phelps
Mt. Vernon
Road SE
Iowa
American Optical Company
Women’s Army Corps
Pvt
Rife
Cedar Oo
Jacksonville
Fla
Immaculate Conception
University of Iowa
Marine Corps
Ronald F. O'Neill
Gerald O'Neill
Forty-first Street
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Roosevelt
William M. Bilsland
Ninth Street
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Ill
Dennis C.bradley
Donald R. Bradley
Eighth Street
George E. Meyr
Ernest Meyr
M Avenue NW
U.S. Army
William J. Prout
Naval Academy
Military Academy
West Point
James R. Wade
River Grove
Prout
William L. Prout
Third Avenue SE