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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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JUNE 4,1947
COED'S CORNER
She Wanted A Change So She Joined The Marines
She's just another College junior now, but Louise Haase of Hopkins hall was once a leatherneck.
"Lou" says the two years she spent in the women's marnies will always be her favorite memory.
She had spent two years at Emporia State Teacher's college, and was in search of a change. Four months in a California defense plant making rubber gasoline tanks for armored jeeps, plus two months at the Sunflower Ordnance plant failed to provide change enough, so she decided to enter the service.
She chose the marine corps because of family reasons. Brothers Were In Service
"One brother was in the army, another in the navy, and it looked like it was up to me to represent the marines. I was so eager that I enlisted on my birthday anniversary, 2014. In March 2015 we were weeks of boot training at Camp Lejeune, N. C., cooled her ardour."
"Boot camp was rough--like K. U. during final week. All training was aimed at making the enlisted women feel subordinate to the officers—even the most composed recruits felt the strain of constant discipline.
"We got up every morning at five. Then we had to stretch the covers on our bunks so tightly that we could flip a quarter on them. Clothing and equipment had to be in that exact order every veteran knows about.
Had Intensified Courses
"We attended intensified courses on marine corps administration, office work, personnel, hygiene, and so forth. Then of course there were drills, parades, and physical education.
It Louise was expecting a little relaxation after boot training, she was disappointed. By a cruel stroke of fate, she drew all 30 days of a marine's mess duty at one time. I rolled out.
was order as I placed out and
*eats and spent the day washing silverware and plates.
ing, steelware and plates.
"Those on mess wore fatigue clothes. The old boots used to tell the new recruits that we were prisoners of the outfit, and what with our prisonlike clothes and our beaten-dog expression we looked the part."
Went To San Diego
In May, Louse was transferred to the marine base at San Diego. Relieved of the rigours of her earlier training, she began to see a happier side to a woman marine's existence. She enjoyed the job as clerk typist in an office at the base and kept that duty until separation a year later.
"We rode on everything from a "Filipino" crate to a C-47." Lounge resale
Just before discharge, Louise and a couple of girls friends were served tea. Their uniforms, allowed them to take plane trips all over the country.
Within 15 days, they had seen San Antonio, Montgomery, Washington, D.C., New York, Dalton, Albuquerque, Sacramento, and San Francisco.
Discharged In May
In May, 1946 the women were discharged from the San Diego base, and Louise came home to Plainville, in western Kansas.
She entered K.U. this fall with plans for a major in sociology.
She got the idea in the service when a leatherneck from an eastern copolis told her of a new family named homoeum—body-mocking—that of being "police women."
Requirements for such a job include a college degree in sociology and the passing of a civil service examination. Lou is taking the first step—the college education
Where Were You Yesterday Afternoon?
If you are a veteran, and if you were in the Lawrence office Monday afternoon, this notice may be for you.
The office at 1035 Massachusetts reported that it does not know the name or address of a veteran, but it wants to get in touch with him. The office asks:
"Would the veteran who was in the Veterans Administration office at 1035 Massachusetts at 2:30 p.m. on June 3, regarding cancelled checks for his insurance, please call 586?"
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