WASP Class 44-W-2
Dates: September 6, 1943-March 11, 1944
Number of Trainees: 109 trainees, 49 graduates
Place: Gymnasium, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
Graduation Speaker: General H. H. Arnold, Commanding General, AAF
Master of Ceremonies: Captain N. O. Monserud, Commanding Officer, Station Hospital 318th AAFFTD, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
Distinguished Guests:
- Lieutenant General Barton K. Yount, Commanding General, AAF Training Command
- Jacqueline Cochran, Director of Women Pilots, AAF
- Major General H. L. George, Commanding General Air Transport Command
- Major General H. A. Craig, Ass’t Chief of Air Staff, Operations, Commitments and Assignments, AAF
- Major General M. Fairchild, Secretary Combined Chiefs of Staff
- Brigadier General Isiah Davies, Commanding General, Central Flying Flying Training Command.
- Brigadier General Charles Glenn, Flight Surgeon AAF Training Command
- Nancy Harkness Love, WASP Executive, Air Transport Command Ferrying Division
Special Awards: WAF Barbara Erickson awarded the Air Medal by General Arnold in recognition of outstanding service
Band: Big Springs Bombardier School Band
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Graduates
Adams, Kate Lee Harris
Adams, Ruth
Andrews, Twila Edwards
Bergemann, Clarice I. Siddall
Brady, Eleanor J. Patterson
Browning, Maisie Kay Cleverly
Bulecheck, Annelle Henderson
Campbell, Virginia Dulaney
Clarke, Susan Parker
Cole, Jean H. Hascall
Felker, Phyllis Sally Tobias
Goot, Dorothy C. Hawkins
Hamaker, Doris J. Elkington
Heckman, Mary L.
Herman, Kathryn F.
Jennings, Verda-Mae Lowe
Johnson, Marjorie J.
Keil, Mary Ellen
Kunkle, Ruth M. Weller
LeFevre, Betty M.
Lesnikowski, Anna E. Berry
Lyle, Joan Whelan
Magid, Elizabeth MacKethan
McCallum, Mary J. McCrea
Montgomery, Alice M.
Moss, Annabelle Craft
Noffke, Esther E.
O'Donnell, Madeline E. Sullivan
Orr, Joanne Wallace
Palmer, Mildred W. Grossman
Pattee, Anna Mae Petteys
Peter, Mary V. Strok
Petry, Ruth Mary
Potter, Rose Lourette Puett
Reese, Rose D.
Robinson, Marie Michell
Rodgers, Lorraine H. Zillner
Segall, Muriel Lindstrom
Smith, Frances Laraway
Soard, Harriet Jean Moore
Stafford, Yvonne
Stewart, Marjorie Gilbert
Tuchband, Frances M. Smith
Twito, Margaret Ehlers
Walker, Margaret J. Needham
Willson, Mary M. Saunders
Wiswell, Jane Rutherford
Woods, W. Ruth
Zimmer, Leona M. Golbinec
Trainees
Anderson, Kathryn R.
Anderson, Olga
Bell, Rena Lourette
Bloomfield, Maralee M. Laufman
Burnside, Phyllis G.
Callahan, Ruth M.
Christian, Jeanne C.
Church, Patricia E.
Clark Joan, M.
Cohen, Sylvia
Combs, Margaret K.
Coonley, Eleanor K.
Cutler, Lois C.
Del Giorno, Velma G. Baumann
Drew, Barbara Ray
Eichenwald, Doris R. Friedman
Fisher, Frances L.
Forbes, Ina L. Story
Fries, Lorraine D.
Green, Gale R.
Handerson, Lyle R.
Hicks, Mary L. Barnes
Hoffman, Virginia M.
Hollander, Frances E.
Jacoby, Dahlia L.
Keefer, Virginia Flugel
Lamar, Sally Jane
Lambert, Marian E.
Lanzdorf, Bette R.
Masonhall, Wynema
Mathis, Mary Grace
Mendes, Charlotte L.
Merrylees, Elizabeth C.
Miner, Ruth Minnie
Outerson, Eleanor V.
Patten, Elizabeth M.
Peters, Elinor, M.
Price, Elizabeth
Purdue, Alice Rose
Ransbottom, Rosemary W.
Renn, Mary Ruth
Roberts, Agnes I.
Rosso, Kathyryn E.
Sauerbert, Kathryn E.
Schramm, Shirley C.
Shultz, Jennie E.
Sinnett, Elise
Skogsberg, Eleanore E.
Smith, Helen E.
Snelling, Janet M.
Stair, Alice E.
Stevens, Lola M.
Stine, Betty Pauline
Thomas, Dorothy E.
Thomas Myrtle
Voyles, Virginia P.
Walsh, Mary L. Wentling
White, Carol J.
White, Mary V.
Willis, Mary K.
Wise, Jeanne M.