WASP Class 43-W-3
Dates: January 16, 1943-July 3, 1943
Number of Trainees: 55 trainees, 38 graduates
Place: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
This class entered training in Houston, Texas in January, 1943. On May 18 the 44 trainees remaining flew in BT’s from Houston to Sweetwater to complete their training and graduate.
Graduation Speaker: Brigadier General T. W. Blackburn, Commanding General, 31st Flying Training Wing, Enid, Oklahoma
Master of Ceremonies: Lieutenant Patrick B. McAnany, Intelligence Officer, 318th AAFFTD, Sweetwater, Texas
Distinguished Guest: Jacqueline Cochran, Director of Women's Flying Training Command
Band: Stanford AAF Drum and Bugle Corps
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Graduates
Bellassai, Marcia E. Courtney
Beritich, Mary N.
Berner, Esther D. Poole
Bessent, Clarice M.
Brick, Katherine A. Menges
Budde, Betty June Deuser
Chapin, Mildred Toner
Fernandes, Betty Archibald
Graba, Gretchen Gorman
Grimes, Frances F.
Hailey, Lois E. Brooks
Hanrahan, Marion
Isbell, Anna Franckman Atwood
Jones, Virginia Elaine
Kidd, Louise Elizabeth
Knight, Florence E.
Leatherbee, Mary L.
Mayfield, Grace Birge
Medes, Beatrice A.T.
Monaco, Elsie Dyer
Nielsen, Laurine Y.
Pearson, Jean Hanmer
Pierce, Virginia B. Crinklaw
Pyle, Elinore Owen
Qualls, Velma Lazar
Raimondi, Elin Harte
Rawlinson, Mabel
Richardson, Frederica McAfee
Roberts-Risdon, Lillian M. Conner
Secciani, Joyce E. Sherwood
Shale, Marie
Smith, Mary Belle Ahlstrom
Stinson, Isabel Fenton
McKeown, Dora Dougherty Strother
Thackara, Shirley Ingalls
Trasky, Bertha Link
Ware, Emma Coulter
Ziler, Lois Hollingsworth
Trainees
Artussy, Jane
Bristol, Eileen
Bower, Julia Sapp
Carl, Ann G. Baumgartner
Cook, Margaret A.
Daughady, Alice
Farley, Evelyn Laesch
Forster, Laura Jean
Gartrell, Mary Alice
Gray, Melva Doyle
Houchin, Gladys
Jermyn, Margaret Anne Clarke
Meikle, Mary Jane Stephens
Mickelson, Geraldine Ulmer
Mitchell, Dorothy Christenson
Phelan, Jean Ross Howard
Phillips, Doris Chisler
Proctor, Anne A. McClellan Armstrong
Roberts, Roberta
Rotbart, Annabelle Kekic
Ruechert, Ruth N.
Sanders, Beverly Y. Brandt Robson
Tucker, Marcella J. Fatjo