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THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE WOMEN OF THE SEA SERVICES

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WAVES National Michigan Unit 32 Newsletter

 Dolores M. Maillette
Editor
shorelines@womenofthewaves.com
May/June 1999  -   Page 4                    "Still Something Special"                                               May/June 1999

The Life and Times of

Marion Scheele Grattan

Marion served as vice president-membership-name tags of Unit 32 for two years. She attended boot camp at Hunter College in 1944, was sent to airplane instrument repair school in Chicago, stationed at Quonset Point, Rhode Island and Pensacola, Florida, and was discharged in 1945.

She spent 32 years as woman’s editor and reporter at the Jackson Citizen Patriot, and still resides in Jackson.

Marion is an active member and past president of Michigan Press Women, the Jackson County Historical Society, Friends of the Dahlem Environmental Center, National Organization for Women and Jacksonburgh Chapter 194, Questers International.


Betty Maloney

Betty enlisted in February 1944 and was discharged August 1946 as a Yeoman 1C. After boot camp at Hunter, she was sent to Yeoman School in Cedar Falls, Iowa., and from there to the Naval Air Base in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Betty met her husband soon after discharge and he died just a few months before they would have celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1998. Her grown children live nearby and she enjoys spending time with her five grandchildren. She serves as a docent at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing.


Patricia Saint Amour

Originally from New Haven, Connecticut, Pat enlisted in the Navy in 1966 and attended boot camp in Bainbridge, Maryland, Corpsman A School at Great Lakes, and served active duty at NAS Moffett Field, California.

After ten years of broken service, Pat reaffiliated in Grand Rapids in 1986, and is a Corpsman 1C with the Amphibious Construction Battalion. She is a life member of the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association and belongs to American Legion Post 0047 in Grand Rapids.

Pat attended St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut, Lansing Community College and Michigan State University. She is employed at Twin City Foods, supervising three laboratories. A charter member of Unit 32, she has served as president, vice president and treasurer.

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TREASURER'S REPORT
WEB Editor's note: - Treasurer's Report amounts are not published on the Web - they can be found in your May-June issue of Shorelines

Beginning Balance

Balance
Checking $  
Savings $ $
RECEIPTS
Dues $  
Shorelines $  
50/50    
Dehli Meeting    
Donation Mary May    
Assc dues-Janice Barrett    
Meeting CG -Bay City    
50/50    
Donation $  
Total Receipts   $
EXPENSES
Stella Staley $  
Betty Maloney    
U.S. Post Office    
Shirley Croucher    
Dehli Cafe    
Coast Gaurd Station    
WAVES Nat.-Dues    
Total Expenses   -$
Ending Balance  
Checking $  
Savings $  
Ending Balance   $
Particia Saint Amour, Treasurer

MI Women’s Historical Center

wpeC.jpg (3039 bytes)The Mother’s Day card for 1999 created by the Center featured a portrait of Mary Mayo (1843-1903), a Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame honoree. "Mother Mayo" was an advocate of education for women, especially farm women. As a member of the Board of Control of the State Industrial Home for Girls, Mary helped many girls previously deemed incorrigible to turn their lives around. She became their "Mother Mayo."

Shirley Croucher notes that the concept of women denied educational opportunity in the United States is difficult for our generation to realize.