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is-ayton-ofh-Staff Now Located Here[iars.e-mtoonai5-h-inIWACbeig:e.rorn,i-voin'Pidlyy.idesisn,rProbably as interesting a cross section of the membership of the Women's Army Corps as could be found anywhere in such a comoarativelv small group is the WAC staff which is now conducting a recruiting campaign in this city.The staff consists cf three officers and three enlisted personnel who were active, in different lines of endeavor in civilian life before joining the WACs.One of the officers, for instance, was 211 assistant, professor of English. Another was a school teacher. The third was employed in the advertising department of a newspaper. The enlisted personnel includes a former commercial artist, a public welfare administrator and a war production plant employe.-Before she became a WAC, Lieut. Ruth Shaver was assistant professor of French at the University of Northbrothers with the armed forcees.Private Muriel Foster at'one time was public welfare administrator in Lawrence, N. Y., her home town. At the time she joined the WACs she was chief of the department of stores, records, freight and invoice approval of the Aluminum Co., of America at Massena, N. Y. She’attended Syracuse university. In the near future she will go to an officer candidate school, having been accepted for the school the day after being sworn into the Women's Army Corps.Also associated with the staff located here is Private Ethel Weed who is spending most of her time in Canton where the WACs also will seek recruits. Private Weed operated a publicity office in Cleveland, her home town, and prepared publicity for many different campaigns before becoming a WAC. She is devotingCarolina. She is on leave of absence) much of her time now to pubiicih from the university for the duration, work in the interests of the Wo-Lieut. Shaver, incidentally, lived I men's Army Corps.idi-ri-55L55,dedLYI-5.Z.sin Massillon for a short time while a small girl. She is a native of Norwalk. She spent considerable time in France and received her master’s degree at the University of Paris. Her high regard for Fiance may have helped to induce her to job* the WACs so that she could do her part in helping to free the French people from German subjugation.Lieut.' Elizabeth ByJJesbv taught school in Nebraska before joining the WACs.. A native of Fairbury, Neb., she attended Stevens college and the University of Nebraska, she was one of the first WACs in the country, .having been a member of one of the original comoanies.Lieut. Genevieve Rustvold is quite familiar with the operation of a newspaper because before she became a WAC she was employed in the advertising department ” of a newspaper. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., she spent sometime in Oregon before going to Los Angeles where she was located when sh° joined the WACs. She has been a WAC since last March.The artist of the staff is Technician Fifth Grade Ruth Morton. A commercial artist, she ha A her own studio in Chicago where she did freeMembers of the recruiting staii wilt remain here for about two weeks during which time they will personally interview local girls and women who are eligible for and interested in the WAC. They will be aided in their efforts by information secured by block leaders of the Massillon Civilian Defense council in a survej conducted here the past few days They hope to recruit a number of WACs while in this citv.WAC, Members In Service TalkAt Legion MeelA WAC and two members win are now in service gave talks at i meeting of Massillon post No. 221 American Legion, at the Iegioi home Tuesday evening.The WAC was Lieut. Geneviev Rustvold, member of the WAC re crulting staff located here, whi told of the training which member of the organization receive and o the work they are doing.rrk- ==C«S3E homfon'V I ,-’ a, attenaed the Cnicago commented briefly on activities Art institute, she is utilizing her acuvniesart ability as a WAC by preparing posters and displays and doing other art work in connection with the work of the recruiting staff. She has painted pictures of a number of her fellow WACs.PFC. Marion Holm was’a war production plant worker when she enlisted. She worked at the Twin City ordnance plant in Minneapolis, Minn. Deronda. Wis., U her home town. She is the fifth member of her family In service as she has fourFort Sill.J. Edward Johns, field director c the American Red Cross stations with the Lightning Division e Camp Croft. N. c., told of the wor being done by the Re'd Cross i army camps.Announcement was made thE approximately 1,200 phonograp records donated by residents of th: city in a recent campaign conducte by the post to secure records fc men in sendee are now bein packed for shipment to camps large number of the records wer collected by local junior block leadrMaIierathLofDaOfT. of J the sonL.A Yoi be . the beD.Ethiiroo;BaiAMabeTr*derinaskBiCIV.Repchagre:: ton froi .spei coir rim reai B spc; fess4i -islathelt;i(dunereaienclt;nesi.'polibus:dueTyestcongrelt;repinessFCT Dr a Sat gro\swill
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Wed, Aug 18, 1943
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