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Haiti WAACSpeaks ManyVAACs Pass In Review FLanguagestM min' ■ yy yvl * 'ix' ■ '*It* 'Deeming it a privilege to exer-n ,c the right of her American ci* tzenship by joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Altagra-■/\i Rizk, daughter of a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, importer and exporter took her basic training atj *he Second WAAC Training Center, Daytona Reach, Florida,Auxiliary First Class Rizk was born m Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her parents were Amercan citizenff#4r»ginally emigrating from I^-banon, Syria, In 193! the family returned to Leb-anon where AFC Rizk attended the College of Soeurs de La Sages-.»* for seven years and majored in French At that time Lebanon wn under French mandate. It isnow under joint Allied occupation.AFC Rizk then attended the College of Sisters of Carmellite Nuns at Tripoli in Ldbanon studying French, Italian and Arabic. There are five different dialects of Arabic, and she has mastered thr«*e of them, She also speaks Haitian Creole, the tongue of the Haitian native.Before returning to the North Arii«»n in continent she made anThe entire WAAC battalion pass T. Walthall, WAAC, representativ Commanding General, 8th Service tion exercises of Class No. 1, WAA college on the morning of July 7.Sixth mC ACTS'Issued July 22ndlt;1!exhaustive t ur of Italy from the toe of the boot to the Alps, visiting the* ancient monuments andimportant cities.She has a sister, a member of the Order of Carmellite Nuns in Luca, Italy, from whom the family has heard nothing for many months.Returning t o Port-au-Prtnce, she remained there until last Ju ly vvheti she took a plane to America to Join the WAAC.Unable to speak any English when she arrived in this country, AFC Rizk has lived with a sister, Mrs. Rachel George, 153 Prospect Street, Wilkes-Barre, for the last nine months, studying English.Alta likes Alpine and is very grateful for all the help and guidance she has received.She was written up in the July 22 issue of WAAC Acts, a publication of Branch No. 7,The sixth issue of WAAC ACTSc ame out July 22. as a publicationfor WAACs of Branch No. 7 of Alpine, Texas,Featured officer of the paper was 3rd Officer Henault, while WAAC of the week was AFC Alta Rizk, of Haiti.• WAACs Live Like Girls atiistc'trCollege by Ernie Pyle, World-Telegram, showed how Alpine WAACs are living.The WAACs, like everybody else, said the article, are subject to many rumors. This might be as good a place as any to dispel one of the vicious ones. It has beens1I\IItIfwhispered that 25 per cent of the WAACs have been sent home. Thatis genuine libel. Only four WAACs have been sent back, and they were older women who simply couldn’t make the psychological adjustment to being so far from home. Actually, the WAACs are neither prissies nor toughles, but just nice natural girls the same as they would be back home.Eleanor Reed wrote of the resentII!1(trouble getting water There was an old man from Ft. Da via who owned a tract of land north of what is now that city, on which was the only running water in the vioinity. They tried to bargaiutrip to Big Bend National Park. Of the Rio Grande, she said, Forgetting the rock bottom and muddy water, it really is beautiful. Across the river, it is bordered by the sheer and majestic Santa HelenaCanyon that towers to the heavensOn the other side is fine sand andr■IIrIImud.Letters, remarks, poetry, and a cartoon provided the remainder of the sheet.'I
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Alpine Skyline
Alpine, Texas, US
Wed, Jul 28, 1943
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