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Haiti W A A CWAACs Pass In Review FMSpeaks Manyihmp ■aLanguagesej Deeming it a privilege to exer-or. iri i* the right of her American citizenship by joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Altagra-/: • Rizk, daughter of a Port-au-i-Prince, Haiti, importer and ex-tookSecondp-r, Daytona Hearn, Florida.. . a + a 4 • * *iy iAuxiliary First Class Rizk was'I-born m Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her parents were Amen-an citizenx^onginally emigrating from Lebanon, Syria. In1931 the family returned to Leb-;anon where AFC Rizk attended ‘, the College of S'*urs de La Sages-e for seven years and majored in French At that time Lebanon;w.i, under French mandate. It is now under joint Allied occupa-| tion.AFC Rizk then attended the Col-The entire WAAC battalion pass T. Walthall, WAAC, reprcsentativ Commanding General, 8th Service tion exercises of Class No. 1, WAA college on the morning of July 7.ar-Sixth WAAC ACIS'AIssued July 22ndfjlege of Sisters of Carmellite Nuns1itat Tripoli in Ldbanon studying French, Italian and Arabic. There are five different dialects of Arabic, and she has mastered thrive of them, She also speaks Haitian Creole, the tongue of the Haitian native.!Before returning to the North Arneri -an continent she made an exhaustive t ur of Italy from the toe of the boot to the Alps, visit-the ancient monuments andThe sixth issue of WAAC ACTScame 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 Che week was AFC Alta Rizk, of Haiti.• WAACs Live Like Girls at(1ttring!] important cities,a! She has a sister, a member ofr' the Order of Carmellite Nuns inLuca, Italy, from whom the family has heard nothing for manymonths.College” 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 been1:IItIfReturning to Port-au-Prtnce, she remained there until last July when 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 lastnine months, studying English.’j Alta likes Alpine and is very grateful for all the help and guid-t a nee she has received.whispered that 25 per cent of the WAACs have been sent home. ThatVis genuine liliel. Only four WAACs have been sent back, and they were older women who simply couldn’t make t h e psychological adjustment to being so far from home. Actually, the WAACs are neither prissies nor toughies, but just nice natural girls the same as they would be back home,”Hleanor Reed wrote of the recent!IIrt(She was written up in the July r 22 issue of WAAC Acts, a publira-f tion of Branch No. 7,trouble getting water. There was an old man from Ft. Davis whoowned a tract of land north ofwhat is now that city, on which wa^ the only running water in the vicinity. They tried to bargain with the old fellow. He was Scotch-Irish, and he said that they couldtrip 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 Helena Canyon that towers to the heavens. On the other side is fine sand and\rIt(I *smud.L/etters, remarks, poetry, and a cartoon provided the remainder of the sheet.’lt;changed to Murphyville, and so it remained from 1883 to 1887.(i:1
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Alpine Skyline
Alpine, Texas, US
Wed, Jul 28, 1943
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