Shore salt: First Naval District Women's Reserve news monthly

              VOL. n No. 2
February 15, 1944
FIRST NAVAL DISTRICT WOMEN'S RESERVE NEWS MONTHLY
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Radcliffe Waves Now $\ Per Cent
of U. S. N. Supply Corps Officers
1st District School
Shows the Way
Governor's Wife Greets ComOne Waves
Official USN Photo by Lieut. Sargent Collier, U. S. N. R.
Left to Right:   Ensign Katharine Toll, Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall, Muriel Morse, Y2/c.
District Welfare Camp
Center for Sports
by Natalie Fultz, Y2/c
How are your mittens, WAVES? Itching
to throw a good snowball? Do you like
skiing on the Groton golf course? Or
toasting your toes in front of a crackling
pine fire, with a coke bottle in your hand
and a juke box playing?
If you do, the week-end spot for you is
the District Welfare Department's Recreation Camp at West Townsend, Mass.,
just forty miles from Boston, a center that
many congenial souls have sought out
this winter, both WAVES and Navy men,
officer and enlisted.
There's an Enlisted Week-end planned
this coming week-end, February 19th, and
another on February 26th. The officers
had an Officers' Week-end on February
12th and are looking forward to another
in March, when spring sports may have
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Mass. First Lady Proud
of Wave Daughter
By Katharine Toll, Ens.
To the WAVES of the First Naval District, Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall is not just
the wife of the Governor of Massachusetts; first and foremost she is the mother
of a WAVE, Emily Saltonstall, Radioman
2nd Class, and the first WAVE sworn in
from ComOne, a year and a half ago. And,
if the WAVES are interested in Mrs. Saltonstall, Mrs. Saltonstall returns the interest.
"I have the warmest affection not only
for the WAVES' uniform, but also for all
the girls who wear it," she said to a Shore
Salt reporter who went out to the Saltonstall house in Chestnut Hill for an interview recently.
Mrs. Saltonstall welcomed her with a
silver tray with a cup of steaming hot
morning coffee and cinnamon toast, served
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by Fay Corey, Ens.
One tenth of all Naval Supply Corps
officers on duty within the continental
limits of the United States are now WAVE
graduates of the Radcliffe Supply School
here in the First Naval District.
Not only that, but five and a half per
cent of the-total number of Naval Supply
Corps Officers are now WAVES.
SHORE SALT is the first publication to
carry these figures, and we consider it
something in the nature of a reportorial
scoop. When we telephoned to BuSandA
in Washington for permission to use the
information, Lieut. Comdr. Vida Buist
USNR (W-R), of the Detail Office said',
"Go right ahead and print it. It's good
publicity for the WAVES."
"Aren't you proud of their Supply Corps
record?" she was asked. "I think it's wonderful!"
To achieve this record, it required a
year of thorough training of class after
cHss out at Cambridge. The current class,
which reported for duty on January 17,
1944, finds itself part of an established
tradition, a tradition based in part, perhaps, on rivalry with the men of the
Supply Corps at the Harvard Supply
School  across  the  Charles  River.
From English majors, artists, dramatists, and social workers, all come the question, "Why am I here in this school?" In
spite of their varied backgrounds, the
course, essentially set-up for men servicing vessels afloat, has proved no mystery
to the Women's Reserve. Indeed, the members of the first class a year ago, astonished their commanding officer, Captain
Macintosh, by getting so many of themselves on the "privilege list" (a list of girls
above 85% who can stay out during study
hall at night), that the standard had to
be raised to 90%. Imagine the disgruntle-
ment across the river!
Successive classes have kept the torch
burning high under the watchful eyes of
their Senior Officer, Lt. (j.g.) Marie
Gaertner, and their instructors Lts. James
Hill and William Harvey, both of the
"fighting Navy." Now that there are two
groups In each class that comes to Rad-
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