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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1943

Page

5

Crescent Coe Honorary Taps Five Junior Girls

Five Coe College junior women were pledged to Crescent the women's senior honor society during a Thursday ceremony on Sinclair Memorial chapel steps after the final senior chapel meeting. The pledges are Katheryn Greene Dorothea Moser Dorothy Mueller Marjorie Parchman and Lorraine Peck.

Coe College Crescent Coe Sinclair Memorial Chapel Katheryn Greene Bever Avenue Dorothea Moser Twenty-first Street Dorothy Mueller C Avenue Marjorie Parchman Cresco Lorraine Peck Hawarden Lenore Sherrard Cambridge Ill Bernice Brandau Rudd Mary Towne Burlington Eleanor Peters Seventeenth Street Alice B. Salter Phi Kappa Phi National Salter

Armstrong Beck win in national window display contest

H A Fitzsimmons display manager of Armstrong clothing company and John Beck of John Beck Athletic Goods, both of Cecar Rapids, won honors in the National Baseball week window display contest sponsored by The Sporting Goods Dealer. The Armstrong display won third prize and the Beck window received honorable mention.

ST Louis H. A. Fitzsimmons Armstrong Clothing Company John Beck John Beck Athletic Goods Company Cecar Rapids Sporting Goods National Trade Journal Armstrong Beck

Waves Spars enlist 25 Iowa women in Cedar Rapids oath

Captain Edmund S. Root will swear in more than 25 eastern Iowa women at Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids Friday 7 30 p m. The event marks the first mass Waves S pars enlistment in the 13 state Ninth Naval district and features a 60 member Iowa City navy Preflight band and a flyover by seven navy fighters from Ottumwa.

Edmund S. Root U.S.N Chicago Ninth Naval District Cedar Rapids Iowa Memorial Coliseum Iowa City Navy Cedar Falls Truman Jones Preston McNarlen Anne Dorsey Des Moines Navy Coast Guard Root United States Naval Academy Annapolis Queenstown Northern Ireland U.S.S. Rizal Pacific Guam Eleventh Naval District Astoria Solomon Islands

Cedar Rapids Declares Wave Spar Day For Navy Enlistment

Friday afternoon Navy planes from Ottumwa will fly over the city from 5 30 to 6 p m and stay at Hunter field Cedar Rapids Friday night. Mayor Frank K Hahn issued a proclamation declaring Wave Spar Day and urging qualified women to consider Waves and Spars enlistment.

Navy Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Hunterfield Frank K. Hahn

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