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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, .November 20, 1942.
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Diligently studying her first aid lesson is Miss Becky Waite,
Kappa Alpha Theta. Becky, a combination of beauty and brains, is
wearing her nurses aide uniform which is attractive as well as prac
tical. The apron is blue denim, topped with a wnite shirt. The red
cross insignia appears on the left sleeve, as well as on the brim of
the petite nurse's cap.
Tactics
(Continued from page 2.)
a rifle or knife, and tactics of
self-defense while being unarmed.
If time will allow and the proper
equipment can be secured, the
group will be given drill in the
use of gas masks.
According to the military de
partment, the course will continue
indefinitely, and will center prin
cipally around the science of com
mando teamwork in modern war
fare. With the organizing of the
physical fitness course of Dr. R.
G. Clapp, physical training will
receive secondary attention in re
spect to instruction of the actual
military tactics included in com
mando warfare.
The military department Is co
ordinating its instructions with
that of Dr. Clapp and advises its
students to enroll in his course.
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Miss Betty Jo Byllesby has recently been commissioned a
Third Officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at the
First WAAC Training Center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. She
was a graduated of the 1941 class and affiliated with Kappa
Alpha Theta.
Courteay Sunday Jnurnnl and Star.
War time dieticians, and wives of tomorrow, are Miss Dorothy Freeborn and Miss Frances Breed,
Tri-Delt. While working in the foods laboratory at ag college, they are neat and meticulous in their t
crisp white uniforms. These girls will receive their internship appointments in April.
Army Routine Good for Women, Declares
WAAC Officer Betty Jo Billesby in Letter
... To Rag Society Editors
The Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps offers the best chance of
having a career to the young
woman getting out of college in
these troublesome times, believes
Third Officer Betty Jo Byllesby
of Fairbury, Neb., graduate of the
University of Nebraska, class
of '41.
Third Officer Byllesby received
her gold bars at graduation of
officer candidates at the first
WAAC training center at Fort
Des Moines recently. She has
been assigned to classifying mem
bers of the WAAC for non
combatant jobs where they will
release men soldiers for fighting.
Miss Byllesby majored in psy
chology in college and it is her
training in this field which will
make her of service to the WAAC
in determining where WAACs
should be assigned.
Miss Byllesby has some view
points on army life which, while
being decidedly original and psy
chological, are also quite prac
ticnl, as they typify woman's re
actions. Army Best for Women.
She believes that the army pro
vides the best chance in the world
for the woman to shape her own
destiny, study her personality, size
up her own character and correct
defects where found.
To begin with, women all agree,
she says, that the first and sole
purpose ef every American today
must be an all-out effort to help
win the war and the best way for
a young college graduate to fit
into that picture is to become a
part of the war organization. She
will thus actually serve with the
army, by releasing some soldier
from a post behind the lines so
that he may go to the front with
a gun in his hand. Her career is
necessarily halted and curtailed
now in civilian life by war, and
there could be no better way of
service than the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps for a woman to
day. In so doing, she goes forth
to help safeguard the freedom of
opportunity lor her later life,
Third Officer Byllesby declares.
The idea so often heard that the
army forces too much regimenta
tion of people's lives is not true,
thinks Miss Byllesby, whose inter
est in phychology has led her to
study the mental processes of the
woman coming into the army life.
On the contrary, she thinks the
army provides the best chance in
the world for the woman to shape
her future.
Career Opportunity.
"There is plenty of opportunity
there for one to shape her career,"
she said. "One can make it one
of great accomplishments if one
wishes. The army gives a woman
a purposeful existence and creates
in her a desire to try and try
hard to make good.
"After dressing in uniform, aris
ing at the same early hour each
morning, eating at the same mess
hall, following the same rules,
etc., the field is wide open for
individuality.
"A woman may not at first like
so well to be considered always
as a unit in a group. Before long,
however, ahe begins to watch her
own progress as a part of an in
teresting experiment.
"It's kind of iike seeing a huge
pen write one's ups and downs,
failures and shortcomings on a
chart. One has the best chance
in the world to check tip on her
self. And if she wants to make
herself over, she can try to do so
without calling forth any observa
tions; as the chances are, she
will be serving in the army with
people who never saw her before,
in civilian life.
Survey of Jobs.
"To the college graduate, army
life also gives a chance to learn
about and see in operation many
different kinds of jobs so that she
may better choose which one to
pick in civilian life, later. The
army gives the girl a chance to
learn what ahe can do. What is
more important," believes Miss
Byllesby, "is that the army en
ables a girl to acquire the dis
cipline and self-control that is
necessary to attain success in any;
field.
"After completing their four
week;' Msic training. WAACs are
usually divided into three groups'
some are used as cadre, that is,
to help with the administrative
details of a company or to trairi
troops, some are sent on to spe
cialist schools for more training
and some are put right to worle
on the basis of past experience,
in army jobs. Following their
completion of specialist training;
for administration, motor corps
work or bakers' and cooks' schooU,
the girls are put to work in tha
field with the army.
"WAACs are already replacing
men in many important jobs ia
the army," she continued. "They
are serving as company com
manders, training other women,
working as clerks in post head
quarters, as dental assistants, in
the post hospital, as assistants tj
the adjutant, as buglers, as mu
sicians, chauffeurs, truck drivers,
and so forth."
School of Music Holds
General Recital at Temple
Students in the school of music
participated in a general recitaV
yesterday afternoon in th Temple
Theatre.
The varied program included
voice, trombone, piano, violin, and
flute trio numbers. The student.
taking part in the recital were
Ruth Ferguson, Leota Snecd, Nora
Maehara, Annamary Lee, Diclt
Foe, Earl Jenkins, Carol Jean
Wherry, Barbara Miller, Marvella
Werner, Ruth Way, Johnson
Beam, Roy Johnson, and Edntf
Sutorious. .
