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WASP Class 44-W-7

Dates: February 12,1944-September 8, 1944

Number of Trainees: 98 trainees, 59 graduates

Place: Gymnasium, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas

A review of trainees on the flight line followed the indoor ceremony

Graduation Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel Roy P. Ward, Commanding Officer, 2563rd AAF Base Unit Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas

Master of Ceremonies: Major Edwin W. Hubbard, Director of Training, 2563rd AAF Base Unit, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas

Distinguished Guest: Mrs. Ethel Sheehy, Special Field Assistant to Director of Women Pilots, AAF

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Graduates

Armstrong, Margarete McGrath 
Bauer, Ruth A. Reilly 
Beal, Edith K. Smith 
Benn, Velta C. Haney 
Bonansinga, Patricia J. Blackburn 
Brookings, Frances Winter 
Brown, Betty June Overman 
Burrill, Sylvia Miller Reich 
Campbell, M. Ellen Wimberly 
Carder, Mildred Eckert 
Carruth, Beverly Frisbie 
Conklin, Nancy Allison 
Connelly, Ann Pedroncelli 
Cross, Betty E. Roth 
Cunningham, L. Jane Harris 
Dreher, Mary Ann Walker 
Dunnam, Nancy Nordhoff 
Edwards, Mary Catherine Quist 
Fagan, Opal V. Hicks 
Ferguson, Eileen Wright
Garland, Margaret Parish 
Gough, Virginia Scotty Bradley 
Gunderson, Eleanor M. 
Haag, Hulda M. Chilcoat 
Haydu, Bernice Falk 
Henry, Annie J. 
Jones, Winnie Lee 
Jordan, Julia Eagan 
Kinney, Alberta Paskvan 
Krum, Virginia B. 
Landa, Jean I. 
Latta, Margaret L. Shaffer 
Lewis, Carol A. Nicholson 
Lotowycz, Grace E. Ashwell 
Lucas, Dorothy Ann Smith 
Magruder, Iola V. Clay 
Mann, Lila C. Moore 
Martin, Margaret E. Neyman 
McKesson, Joan Allen Smythe 
Moore, Naoma Halladay
Mullen, Virginia H. 
Nicholas, Mary E. Pettitt 
O'Connor, Ann E. Cawley 
Olinger, Geraldine F. Bowen 
Pickering, Nona H. Holt 
Pinkerton, Bernice M. Dannefer 
Reed, Betty Jo Streff 
Rexroat, Ola Mildred 
Reynolds, Muriel R. Rath 
Ruprecht, Mary G. Storm 
Schaefer, Adelaide 
Sheean, Mary E. Caffrey 
Smith, Edith K. Upson 
Sturdevant, Mary J. Barnes 
VanValkenburg, Dorothy Sorensen 
Vandeventer, Mary Alice Putnam 
Weiss, Margaret M.
Wessa, Patricia R. Smythe 

Williams, Vyvian Mae 
Wysocki, Irene N. Norris

Trainees

Ames, Juanita A. 
Baker, RaVenna Leigh 
Bentis, Georgianna G. 
Braman, Miriam E. 
Brickel, Florence M. 
Brown, Mary Lou Thompson
Carney, Evelyn S. Hoagland 
Cox, Lucille V. 
DeWolfe, Lucille G. 
Dean, Christine P.
Ellis, Blanche Wraske 
Flanders, Florence S. 
Jackson, Mary M.
Kent, Emma R.
Kerr, Isabelle 
Lenox, Fern B. 
Lewis, Emily K.
LoPinto, Winnie V. 
Lynch, Marie E. 
Manners, Jo Anne 
McCool, Nellie Richardson 
McCray, Bernice May 
McElligott, Grace E. 
McGalis, Mary G. 
O'Briant, Mary W. 
Schulz, Winifred A.
Seltzer, Eugenia Keiles
Shellenberger, Elisabeth 
Sherman, Jacqueline B. 
Towle, Joan P. R. 
Vickers, Lurlyne J. 
Warrick, Georgiana 
Wessa, Patricia R. Smythe 
Westbrook, Linda L. 
White, Georgia H. 
Whitmore, Alice B. Gartland 
Williams, Anne R. 
Wittman, Myrtle W. 
Wren, Katherine M.