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Reviewl Dancel Dinnerl Wave Birthday on Monday

800 Waves to
Open Letter to Clll/FORN/11 BORN /IND IRED Lt. Williamson
March in Military
The Waves of Interviewed On
Review at 1630
Treasure Island T. I. Waves
The Women's Naval Reserve will
"As the Commander, U . S. Naval celebrate its third birthday offici- Lt. Irene Williamson, Women's
Training and Distribution Center, ally Monday, July 30. Highlight- Reserve Representative for Treas-
San Francisco, I am taking this ing the celebration on Treasure ure Island, took time this week to
opportunity to wish the Waves of Island will be a military review of talk on one of her favorite subjects,
Treasure Island a happy birthday all Waves to be held at 1630 on the "Waves".
on this, the celebration of their Receiving Ship mustering field.
Commodore R. W. Cary will take "It pleases me to think that
third anniversary. I am exception- of the 80,000 Waves now in
the review, assisted by Lt. Irene
ally proud of the service they have the Navy, the 800 we have on
rendered to the Navy and more Williamson, senior Wave officer.
Eight hundred Waves are expected Treasure Island are a representa-
specifically to Treasure Island. tive group of the whole. On every
"Two years and nine months ago to participate. station in the United States anct
the first Wave offr::er arrived on Following the review the big
birthday cake will be cut at Wave's on those in Hawaii, the Waves are
the island, to be follcwed a few
Galley and the birthday dinner will living much the same as we are.
weeks hter by yeomen, pharmacist
be served at 1800. They work, play, eat, sleep and yes,
mates and storekeepers. This orig- they get married, too, even as our
. inal draft adapted themselves so Waves and their invited guests
will dance to the music of the girls do. It is true that on some
well that island activitie-s requested
Hunter's Point band at the Wave stations fewer liberties are granted
more Waves as soon as possib e.
1
dance to be held in the foyer of the while on others there are less re-
From all parts of the United Staten
Administration building Monday strictions than here, but on the
they reported here for duty, and
night. Dancing will begin at 2000 whole we are an average group,
today eight hundred Navy women
and conclude at 2400. An excellent and a group of which I am proud."
are replacing men badly needed in
floorshow will provide entertain- THREE PHARMACIST MATES FROM SUNNY CALIFORNIA left to
the Pacific. ment and a buffet supper will be right are Mary Holmes, PhM1c of Riverside, Calif.; Charlotte Morelock, Lt. Williamson received her com-
"Their cooperation and hard work PhM2c and Betty Juleen, PhM2c both of Hollywood. See story below. mission in September, 1942. She
served during the evening. Decora- was formerly a professor at Mills
during the past months have been tions will ca rry out the birthday
invaluable to the various com- theme. College, Oakland, Calif., and makes
mands which they serve, and I am Hospital Waves Facts and Figures her home in Alameda. During her
All Waves on Treasure Island
sure that their individual com- three years service in the Navy she
will participate in the review, and From Hollywood About T. I. Waves
manding officers will agree th at all are invited to the birthday din- has seen many Waves and had a
their combined and continued effort ner and dance. Eight hundred Waves should good opportunity to observe them
is necessary if Treasure Island is Meet On T. I. on various stations. Her first as-
possess some definite similarities
to do its share in bringing our war signment was to the storekeeper
Three hospital corps Waves took and exhibit some unusual factors
with Japan to a successful con- MARRIAGE RATE time out last week to talk about as well. With this thought in mind school at Bloomington, Ind., fol-
clusion. home. Charlotte Morelock, PhM2c, The Masthead conducted a survey lowed by a tour of duty at the
INCREASES Mary Holmes, PhMlc and Betty of a representative group and found
"To the officers and enlisted radio school in Madison, Wis. She
Waves of Treasure Island belong Juleen, PhM2c are all from down out some interesting facts and then took up recruiting duty for
our congratulations for a job 'well AMONG WAVES Los Angeles way, Betty and Char- figures. (By figures we mean those the Twelfth Naval District and has
done', and the hope that the com- The last few months have been lotte claiming Hollywood as home which can be noted by Roman traveled through California, Ne-
ing fourth year of their service will busy ones for Treasure Island and Mary, coming from Riverside, numerals.) vada, Colorado and Wyoming pro-
be even more successful than the curing women for the Navy.
Waves with matrimony in mind. If Calif. Forty per cent of all the Waves
past three years have been."
Treasure Island can properly be Charlotte enlisted in the Navy in on the island claim the west coast "Treasure Island is one of the
R. W . CARY, Commodore, USN.
called tropical then perhaps it is Los Angeles in the fall of 1943. The as home, and twenty per cent of best stations for Waves that I have
true that tropical isles and romance girls were comparing notes on their this forty are from California. The seen," said Miss Williamson. "Be-
"SPINSTER SISTERS" go hand in hand. reasons for entering service and east coast rates second with thirty fore we forget it, I want to wish
The island chapel has been a Charlotte gave her previous em- per cerit followed by a percentage all the Waves on the island a happy
TO COLLECT SOON favorite wedding place for service ployment as one of her reasons .. of twenty-five from the middle birthday and that includes those
The famous "Spinster Sister- brides. A recent survey of chapel She was formerly employed by the west and a small percentage of five who have gone from here to the
hood", organized by hopeful but files disclosed that in the three Adel Precision Corporation which from the south. This would seem to Fourteenth Naval District. The
temporarily unattached Waves at years since the commissioning of makes precision instruments. Her indicate a definite shortage of Waves are one of the grandest
the Armed Guard Center, is about the chapel, one hundred and fifteen job was to assist the nurse in the southern belles. Men from Texas groups of women I have ever met.
to pay off. The charter states that women in service have taken their company dispensary, and her duties will have a hard time finding their They promised to serve for the
when any of the undersigned mem- marriage vows in front of its altar, ranged all the way from filing of soul-mates on Treasure Island. duration and six months and they
bers violate the contract by enter- many being Waves stationed on records to first aid for burns and Our girls are for the most part are keeping that promise. They
ing into the state of matrimony Treasure Island. cuts. between the ages of twenty and have made a place for themselves
they shall take the rest of the Things are simplified too, for the Leaving her job as a social and twenty-three. Thirty-five per cent in the Navy and a good record of
"Sisterhood" to dinner and foot the busy service bride. The Treasure medical case-worker, Mary Holmes of them have seen their twenty- service. This is not only a happy
entire bill for the organization. Island Hostess House provides the br-ought that experience to the Los fourth to twenty-seventh birthday, birthday for all of us, but a ter-
First member to break faith will perfect setting for her wedding re- Angeles recruiting office and they, ten per cent claim to be anywhere mination of three successful years,
be Thelma Mello, Ylc, of the Armed ception and its hostesses are ready needing experienced hospital per- from twenty-eight to thirty-one and the beginning of an even more
Guard personnel office. Her forth- and willing to advise and cooperate sonnel, sent her off to Hunter boot and only five per cent can claim successful fourth. Yes, if you really
coming marriage will put her on in making things as easy as pos- school with the recommendation the worldly wisdom which belongs want the truth, I am enthusiastic
the list of honorary members and sible. The Hostess House even has for further training in the hospital to the ages of thirty-two and up. about Waves. I think I have a right
also make her the first of the co- a bridal gown and veil for those corps. An unusual result of our search to be, and I am proud to count
signers to execute the charter. who find their prospective husbands The last of the trio is the veteran was the startling fact that fifty- them among my friends."
The original fifteen members, arriving unexpectedly and them- of the gr,oup. Betty Juleen was in five per cent have had educll;tion
thus depleted by one, wait hope- selves with no time for trousseau nurses' training when she enlisted beyond high school graduation. Of
fully for their next victim. One of buying. in the Navy and left West Holly- that fifty-five per cent ten per cent
the girls, Marian Sorenson, has Waves who have met and mar- wood to go to New York for boot are college graduates, but the re- Balboa Park to
been transferred to the Ferry ried on the island are numerous, training more than two years ago. mainder have had anywhere from
building but still claims, member- and some weddings add a foreign one to three years in university, Be Commissioned
ship. All fourteen are busy guessing flavor. A recent ceremony found a Mary and Charlotte were to be- business college or special technical
the source of their next free meal. Wave ensign saying "I do" to an come better acquainted when they schools. This would seem to indi- The twenty-nine acre tract which
officer in the Royal Air Force who were both sent to Corona, Calif., cate that since a large percentage comprises the new Wave housing
for hospital corps school. Their
S11,!te1• St. lV ave Dmiee had been released a few weeks pre- class was one of the few to gradu- are from the west coast the possi- unit, Balboa Park, will be com-
viously from a German prison missioned Sunday, July 29, at 1500.
Waves at the Sutter street ate from the Naval hospital there bilities for higher education are
quarters will keynote their cele- camp. One of the Waves on the and their graduation assignments adequate out here. Also that these The unit, which is located at Ocean
chapel staff, Juanita Hunnex, Y3c,
bration of the Wave's third birth- sent them both to Treasure Island. girls are not only well-educated but and Phelan streets in San Fran-
exposed to all this romance, chose
day at an anniversary dance to be Charlotte is now assigned as a smart. · cisco, will accommodate some one
the chapel as the spot for her
held Monday, July 30 in the ball- secretarial assistant to the Chief Thirty-five per cent are married thousand Waves now living on sub-
marriage to her college sweetheart,
room at the quarter!l. Nurse, and Mary works on records which leaves plenty of eligibles and sistence and in other quarters in
The Armed Guard band from Donald R. Wood, AOM2c. and histories in the hospital record according to our figures, young the Twelfth Naval District.
Treasure Island will provide music Interesting is the fact that about office. Both girls have put their and well-educated young women
and special entertainment will be a seventy per cent of these service civilian experience to good use and for any and all interested T. I. Nine buildings are -planned to
part of the evening's program. women choose to be married in the are doing work they like and in suitors. provide Navy women with bar-
traditional white wedding gown. At racks, messing facilities, a recrea-
............................ ' least _another fifteen per cent choose which they are proficient. The result of the survey is pre- tion building, administration build-
Unlike the others Betty Juleen sented here in order that you may
the white dress uniform of the ing, dispensary and sick bay.
Nav·y Accommodates Waves and the remainder go to the came to the Oak Knoil hospital at draw your own conclusions and de- Quarters will berth both officers
altar in their "dress blues." Oakland, Ca1if., for her training as ductions. The Masthead regrets and enlisted women.
Discharged Waves Yes, Cupid finds plenty of work a corps Wave. Her first and inter- that there is at present no accurate
on Treasure Island, and even as esting assignment was to care for tally of redheads, blondes and bru- Each barracks is divided into
The Navy department has hospitalized Marines at the Oak nettes, but should such figures be bays, each bay accommodating
this is written the marriage rate
fashioned the honorable dis- Knoll hospital, and lat"r she went available we will notify you at our four Waves. Total berthing for
continues to climb among the Navy
charge button to fit the needs of Waves on T .I. to duty on the out-patient wards. earliest convenience. each barracks will be one hundred
its feminine personn~I. The but- An Army air forces lieutenant and fourteen.
ton orig inally designed as a lapel changed her name a few months Navy department is beginning the Commissioning ceremonies will
insignia will, in the case of dis- Gee, That's Tough ago and now as Mrs. Juleen has third year of the Women's Reserve include addresses by Twelfth Naval
charged Waves, be made as a pin. Arthur Walsh, movie actor, re- been re-assigned to the Treasure with a plan to recruit civilian wo- District admin\strating officers, de-
It need not be worn on a lapel, ports the MGM publicity office, Island hospital and is working on men for duty in the Navy hospital vot~onal services led by Chaplain
and the girls are authorized to "can't get out of uniform for his patient's records in the hospital corps. Wave hospital corps mem- R. W. Truitt, Captain (Che) and
wear it anywhere on their cloth-
.. . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . strating the real reason why the city proud of their service, tary band .
screen roles." Seems he's had seven record office.
bers are doing a good job and' one music by the Wave Quarters'
ing.
straight parts as a soldier or a
These three Waves are demon- to make Los Angeles or any-(}ther chorus and Treasure Isliµid milis
sailor.