Smith, Edith L.

Smith, Edith, 1924. Reminiscences of a WWII WAVE who served as a Yeoman at Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI., 1944-1945; Includes her growing up years in Woonsocket, RI.; High School graduation, 1941; Employment at Slatersville Finishing Co. in Payroll Department; Reaction to Pearl Harbor bombing; Enlisted in WAVES in 1944; Training and indoctrination at USNTS (WR) Hunter Col­ lege, Bronx, N .Y.; Member of singing platoon that appeared on Perry Como Show; Yeoman train­ing at Oklahoma A&M, Stillwater, Okla.; Assignment in Personnel Department at NAVTORSTA, Newport, R.I.; Recreation; Maniage, June 1945; V:J Day celebrations in Newport; Discharged, No­vember 1945; Impact of WAVES service on her life; Postwar employment; Ocean State WAVES Membership.

Imprints, including “A Short History of the U. S. Naval Training School (WR), Bronx, NY”, ca. 1943; An article entitled “Making WAVES in the Bronx”; The Story of the U.S. Naval Training School (WR) at Hunter College in Journal of the Bronx County Historical Society, Spring, 1993; Gyroscope, newspaper of the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI, June–October, 1945; The Register, WIMSA, Fall, 1995; “Women in RI History: Making a Difference”, 1994; Work schedules and discharge papers, 1945.