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

              VOL. II No. 4
FIRST NAVAL DISTRICT WOMEN'S RESERVE NEWS MONTHLY
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April 15, 1944
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District Waves Go "Park Avenue"
Five New Barracks Include Penthouse
WAVES move in on first day of new Newport Barracks, April 1.
Official U. S. Navy Photograph
Air Waves Training
with Quonset LCNT
By Betty Ryan, Lt. (jg)
Quonset, R. I., April 15—The first WAVE
officers to join the Navy's air navigation
program began their training last August.
WAVE navigation officers are on duty
now at air stations all over the country.
A group of 18 officers are receiving advanced navigational training at the Naval
Air Station, Quonset Point, R. I.
The Link Celestial Navigation Trainer,
—the amazing $50,000 gadget that is speed-
the training of thousands of Naval cadets
and pilots,—is the special concern of the
WAVES at Quonset.
During a six weeks course, the L.C.N.T.
officers are getting acquainted with all the
intricacies of the "Big Link". In the fuselage of the trainer, fitted out with all the
instruments and controls of a bombing
plane, the WAVES are "flying" navigation
problems.
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Enlisted Waves Ta\e
Over "Old Rose
and Royal Blue
by Janice Rogers, SK2c
Recreation rooms, mobiles, and many
other centers have been opened for service men and women to cater to their
needs, but none that accomplished what
the new Enlisted Women's Lounge at 26
Temple Place, Boston, has in taking care
of the minute details for Hub girls and
WAVES from all over the District.
Conveniently located in the heart of the
shopping district and near to the theatres,
the lounge was opened April 1st for women
exclusively, but it is connected with the
music room and recreation room which
are still for men too.
The lounge is decorated in old rose and
royal blue, with deep cushioned chairs and
couches,   floor   lamps  and   tables.   There
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Quonset, Newport, Brunswick,
Hingham and Charlestown,
Growing Rapidly
The growing number of WAVES in ComOne has been especially rapid at five
stations. Within the past month bar-
acks, either newly built or newly converted,
have been opened for the Women's Reserve at Quonset, Newport, Brunswick,
Hingham, and presently will be at the
Charlestown  Navy  Yard.
Quonset ultimately will house the greatest number, the Charlestown Navy Yard
boasts the only penthouse and Hingham
claims a single and unique grape arbor,
but whatever the differences and distinctions of the five barracks, all of them
have one factor in common,—they are
here to accommodate girls in navy blue.
The Quonset barracks are in reality
quadruple, consisting of four new two-
story buildings of the standard Navy type.
Large as they are, however, the present
plans may be only a beginning. Each is
adorned with little cement-bordered flower
beds. Nobody has decided yet who the
gardeners will be this summer, but presumably WAVES, nor what the crop should
provide,—herbs for the Navy mess, or
pansies and geraniums. Or even WAVE
orchids.
Newport boasts a very spiffy set-up at
the Naval Training School. South Point,
the sea promintory there, is shared by
only two units, the WAVES and the USS
Constellation, sister ship of the USS Constitution. The barracks were formerly a
Supply Building, now 'supplied with
WAVES.
Next door another building houses the
galley, which in turn is connected by a
covered passage with a third building on
the ground floor of which is a large and
spacious mess hall. The second floor is
the recreation room, library, and ship's
service. Three evenings a week this recreation room will be open to visitors, both
male and female, and a number of parties
have already been planned. A grand
piano and a Spanish shawl were both
promised for the opening. On the evening
of the opening the piano was there all
right, but the Spanish shawl has yet to
appear.
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