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

              Friendly Atmosphere
at Copley Square
Officers Club
by Martha Leys, Lt. (jg)
"We want this club to be the nearest to
home that you could find away from
home."
That is the way Mrs. Nehemial Boyn-
ton, Jr., expresses the aim of the Copley
Square Officers Club, 520 Boylston Street,
Boston (next to the Hotel Brunswick).
Mrs. Boynton and the other hostesses,
both senior and junior, certainly are
friendly and manage to produce an atmosphere intimate yet smooth. The club is
open every day till eleven in the evening,
so drop in and see for yourself; and while
we are on the subject of junior hostesses,
you who are a bit shy about approaching
the junior hostesses may be surprised to
hear that they are a bit shy about approaching you.
Moderate Prices for Good Food
The food is excellent, and any day in
the week you may be sure of a good hot
supper for 50c. Of course there is a well-
stocked bar in case you're interested. There
is always plenty of company in the dining room and the hostesses want you to
meet people if you did not come with your
own crowd. One evening a young man
from Texas was introduced to a girl from
Alabama and they were delighted to find
that they had a mutual friend, so it us-
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Davisville, R. I., is Site of
Welfare Recreation Officer's
Training Conference
WAVES of the First Naval District will
be interested to know that a training conference for all Welfare-Recreation Officers
will take place at Davisville, R. I., March
16, 17, and 18, from which will come a
broadening of the program for WAVES on
each station.
The WAVES of Davisvilje, moreover, are
to take a practical part in this conference,
as the work-shop method will be used
and the WAVES will demonstrate their
own activities.
Dramatics Play Prominent Part
One day will be given over to music and
dramatics, when at least one enlisted personnel representing each activity in the
district will be present to take part in the
program. Skits will be worked out and a
complete play produced using members
of the conference as actors and technical
crew.
Costumes will be made by the group
as well as lighting arrangements and stage
sets. In the field of music there will be
some outstanding conductors of orchestras
and musical productions.
Summer Uniforms Available Soon
— 2000 Manufactured in Boston Weekly
The new summer greys, as modeled by
Lieut, (jg) Lillian Cryan of the District
Communications Office. Official U. S.
Navy Photograph.
! First Woman Medico
In This District
By Janice A. Rogers SK2c
Young and attractive Lieut, (jg) Sylvia
Ruby, USNR, of Brookline, Mass., is the
first woman medico to be sworn into the
Navy from the First Naval District. And
not only does she come from Greater
Boston, she is currently on duty in Greater Boston, at the Charlestown Navy Yard
Dispensary.
All of three weeks has Dr. Ruby been a
part of the Navy, knowing little of the
customs, language (lingo) or the traditions. For her it was a matter of going
home one night in civies and appearing
the next day in the Navy blue. When
asked her reaction to the sudden change,
she frankly answered, "It killed me to
give up my new green suit."
Her work at the present time consists
of administering to the WAVES and the
women Yard workers. The examinations
and industrial cases that come to her attention often amount to 100 patients per
day. Her hours are from nine to four and
true to Navy life with a watch every fourth
or fifth night.
Very trim in her new uniform, Dr. Ruby
attended Devotion School with a few years
at Girls' Latin and graduated from Brook-
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Overseas Caps, Slacks,
Sweaters, Official if
C. O. Approves
Plans for the much discussed new summer greys are now complete, and ComOne WAVES will be interested to know
that two seersuckers apiece will be available in all probability the first part of May,
and that they will be obtainable at all
licensed outfitters simultaneously.
A Boston manufacturer is turning them
out at the rate of 2,000 a week, sizes eight
to 42, and other firms throughout the
country have been at work for many
months. Naturally the first uniforms go
to the southern Districts; the WAVES in
Miami, for instance, are getting theirs
already.
Made of high-grade, grey and white
stripped seersucker, the uniform consists
of a one-piece dress with short sleeves and
a built-in belt, worn under a long sleeved
jacket with navy blue or gold detachable
buttons. Matching covers will be ready
for both officers' and enlisted girls' hats.
The material will wash well and require
only a minimum amount of pressing with
a moderate iron at the collars, cuffs, and
seams.
Black shoes go with the uniform, and
black gloves, although gloves are optional;
you don't have to wear them if you don't
want  to.
Greys are not to replace blues as the
summer uniform, they merely supplement
them.   They  are  optional,  not  required.
Blues will still be correct, both for work
and dress.
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[FOR SALE — One winter overcoat,
slightly used, size 10. If interested en-
[ quire Office of the District Director,
Women's Reserve.