Happy 2015! This is the yearbook from Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls (now Northern Iowa University),where the WAVES had a training school.
It comes from the college’s Archives and Special Collections.
Tag Archives: yearbook
The Navy, Part II
This is the second two page spread the Old Gold dedicated to the work of the Navy at Iowa State Teacher’s College. The yearbook focused in this section on the WAVES’ daily routine.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
The Navy
The Old Gold dedicated two, two page spreads to the work of the Navy at Iowa State Teacher’s College. The yearbook began with the first days the WAVES arrived in November of 1942.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
The Army Too
In all of our discussion of the WAVES at the Iowa State Teacher’s College, it’s important to remember that Army men trained there too. Here, the Old Gold, the yearbook from the Iowa State Teacher’s College, tells us about an “average” day for the Army cadets.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
WAVES at Work
The Old Gold, the yearbook from the Iowa State Teacher’s College, followed the WAVES through all aspects of their training regimen, including some of the more mundane daily tasks like filing.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
Spring Training
The Old Gold, the yearbook from the Iowa State Teacher’s College, found another difference as the WAVE boot camp transformed into a Yeoman training facility in Spring 1943: the better weather meant the women were using the quads outdoors for their marching drills.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
Yeoman School
By Spring of 1943, the WAVES boot camp at Cedar Falls had been transformed into a yeoman training facility. And Old Gold, the yearbook for the Iowa State Teacher’s College, found them “smart, snappy, and plenty neat.”
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
The Officers
Navy officers who ran the training facilities on the campus of Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls.
The 1943 edition of the Old Gold yearbook comes from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
WAVES Quarters
Bartlett Hall, WAVES Quarters, Iowas State Teacher’s College, c 1943 as seen in the pages of the Old Gold yearbook.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
The New Normal
And by Winter term, this is what Bartlett Hall looked like. As the the 1943 edition of Old Gold reminds us, the dorm at the Iowa State Teacher’s College was transformed into a home for WAVES-in-training, first in boot camp and later in the Yeoman training school.
The yearbooks come from the archives and special collections at the University of Northern Iowa.
Hinges of History 