With The Women In Service: October 6, 1942
With The Women In Service
Tappan Teacher Is Ensign In WAVES
An ever increasing number of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw county women are volunteering for service in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and the Women's Naval Reserve Corps, and for duty as Army, Navy and Red Cross nurses.
The first reported Ann Arbor woman to be commissioned as an officer in the WAVES at the time of taking the oath is Miss Noma Pearl Reid, Tappan Junior High school teacher, who will report to Smith College, Northampton, Mass., tomorrow as an ensign in the Naval Women's Reserve.
Miss Reid, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reid of Battle Creek and Allegan, was sworn in as an officer Sept. 26 in Detroit.
According to Ensign Reid, it was her experience in organizational work, particularly with the Girl Scouts, and her years of experience as excursion director of Tappan school that brought her the commission.
Born in Allegan, Ensign Reid attended high school there and went on to receive an A.B. from the University Literary College and a master's degree in education. She spent one summer at the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin and in 1937 became mathematics teacher and excursion director of Tappan school.
Ensign Reid is a member of the Ann Arbor Women’s Rifle Corps, retiring president of Pi Lambda Theta, and chairman of the mathematics conference of the Michigan School Master's Club. She was also cited for honors at the last annual Honors Day of Pi Lambda Theta.
Ensign Reid will receive a month's training in organizational work at Smith College.
ENSIGN NOMA REID
Nurse Made Officer
News has been received of the appointment of Elizabeth N. Fichtel of Calumet, to the rank of second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Cors. The appointment was announced by Maj.-Gen. H. S. Aurand, Commanding general of the sixth service command with headquarters in Chicago.
Lt. Fichtel was graduated from the University School of Nursing in 1933 and was stationed here for five years. Recently she was staff nurse at Houghton, Keweenau Health department in Hancock.
WAAC To Report
Vera Andres, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto G. Andres, 1505 Brooklyn Ave., reported at Fort Des Moines in Iowa Saturday to begin training as a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Accented by the WAACS the middle of last month, she was officially sworn in Sept. 16, three weeks after she had first applied for enlistment.
Miss Andres is a graduate of the University Literary College and of Hamilton Business College. At present she is a secretary at the institute for fisheries research of the Michigan department of conservation, a position which she has held for seven years.
Jean Carleen Burkhart, of Saline, reported for training the same day.
Vera Andres
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