WASP Class 44-W-1
Dates: August 9, 1943-February 11, 1944
Number of Trainees: 99 trainees, 49 graduates
Place: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
Graduates were resplendent in the official Santiago Blue Uniform making its first appearance. Trainees continued to wear the traditional ‘general’s pants’, white shirts and flight caps. This graduation also inaugurated the class songs which were to be a highlight of all future graduations.
Graduation Speaker: Brigadier General Kenneth P. McNaughton, Assistant Chief of Staff, AAF Training Command
Master of Ceremonies: Lieutenant William H. LaRue, Physical Training Officer, 318th AAFFTD, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
Distinguished Guests:
- Brigadier General J. C. Bartholf, Commanding General of Special Troops, Camp Swift, Texas (General Bartholf's daughter was a member of the graduating class.)
- Mrs. Ethel Sheehy, Special Field Assistant to Director of Women Pilots
Graduates
Trainees
Adamson, Irene
Anderson, Edna B.
Bell, Virginia Grace
Belz, Velma M.
Bratko, Lelia Marie
Bronson, Myrtle T.
Burton, Jean Elizabeth
Cisternino, Frances L. Johnson
Cox, Inelda May
Crowell, Frances Kenney
DeKing, Jean
Dickens, Deborah P. Stempel
Doudiet, Ellenore W.
Easton, Jane Henderson
Eaton, Eileen B.
Ellingsen, Florence G.
Fertig, Marcia Gleicher
Fuller, JoAnne
Gerhardt, Margaret
Hahn, Sidney B.
Hedgecoke, Ivy L.
Hoffman, Kay E.
Howell, Mary B.
Hudgins, Virginia R.
Kalla, Lucy
Kasal, Eleanor J.
Kostuk, Nadja Gajdowski
Kraft, Virginia Steven
Loughan, Kay Barbara
Mayes, Fay McWhorter
McCaleb, Laura Marie
Meadows, Winifred Simpson
Meyerpeter, Ruth C.
Miller, Geneieve L. Yetter
Mustain, Wanda Cullen
Rogers, Mary E.
Rosholt, Mary
Shanemeyer, Lois E.
Sidwell, Jean G.
Todd, Elisabeth Joost
Turner, Doris E.
Wall, Mary A.
White, Mary J.
Whitman, Marjorie L.
Wilbur, Gail R.
Wiley, Phyllis A.
Willging, Katherine A.
Young, Pat Pollock