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Show Thursday, March 21, 2006 Page 8 NORTH COUNTY 'NEWSPAPERS www.heraldextra.com yellowpages APRIL 7 (Friday) PLEASANT GROVE Fire Station, 86 E. 100 S. Animal- Pnce M,ii. i.;,r 5,' ffffiftlf- 'rtf V' i Mrtk- if. 'ill. ':. h'i Hit., $4', 1 (rri.-il.- (I 1,1(1 to H) !.. la-Mlly ,1.1., A ,',f rr.. J. r ,' !VUV .4 I"',' ""6 '' 'f'',1. hnrfiii'.' " msntr S :', -..) crop lVtV4VrFO IITTFRS! Salt Lake woman makes big WAVES veterans NO MO?. I. Elen Muvi7e Fagg, of Provo. prcu' up in Salt Lake Cifv. lfie daughter of a civil engineer, (lie designed the highway underpasses in Pleasant Grove and Springx'ille.) Before joining the WAVES, she worked at the Mack Truck Company on 800 South and Main in Salt Luke City, when it was considered a "war industry." indus-try." What follows is her story in her own words: 1 iTi 1 1 iin PG Players Presents by Joe DiPictro March 10-27, 2006 Friday. Saturday & Monday Evenings 7:30 p.m. Directed by Howard and Kalhryn Laycock Little f eaturing Andrea Brower. Linda Garay, Luone Ingram, Walt Price, Dennis Purdie and Stewart Shelley Keith Christeson Theatre PG Library, 30 East Center Pleasant Grove Tickets: $700 - Adults, $6 SeniorsStudents. $25 Family Tickets at the Door Presented hy special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc Information: Verdon Walker - 785-0222 P,riri in ad unci receive tl.00 Off each ticket purchased y mot her had always relished her experience as an army nurse; she was proud of her service. After my brother was drafted, decided that should te doing something 1o help the war effort, too. The company com-pany finally gave me a release, and that's when 1 joined the WAVES. I was sent to boot camp at Hunter College, in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. The trip across the country by train with other girls from Utah was exciting. The Navy had rented or bought apartment houses in the Bronx. In boot camp, we marched in the streets, learned about what was going on in the war, and studied U.S. history. I thought we had quite nice uniforms. I still wear black oxfords because they are so comfortable. I'm sure they were well constructed. became friends with some of the other girls, but not everybody. ev-erybody. One lady in particular was very bossy. She told all the rest of us how to march, how to do this, hqwto do that. But 1 had no complaints about the officers. Before I enlisted, I told the WAVES that 1 wanted to work in a hospital. It wasnt certain that 1 could get that job, but I did. 1 was sent for about two ILPCIXD1AB HOMt AUTO Uft BUSl(fSS AUTO KfiTtS CfiU US TOpftfi tickets ctcapttrrs Phone Quotes Welcome DO J SEE Hi A, J t - n Life is better when you're in i I ?rv i 3?-" s i-? I l ( I "i , ) -w C- m 42 ( rTfi 7 . 1 Iff K ,.'1, .T-..., , uvts. tw -'i' - ' ' 'Cm- .( - . . ...A.'J. LJ ---2 ik.:, a X ; Single Level Luxury! $250's STARTING IN THE These exquisite communities offers single level homes with wide open floor plans and open space. From the minimal maintenance yard to the oversired garages, each home has been carefully designed with you in mind. At Spanish Fields you'll find walking trails and community park within walking distance. Come fall in love with the convenience and luxury of a Desert Point Builders home. i,,.7x",;,ri'l.:i5 NDALWQDD 2164 West 410 South PROVO, UT SPANISHFIELDS 1 h i i i 632 S. Spanish Fields Drive SPANISH FORK, UT - Will WfcKW&l weeks to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, north of Chicago, Chi-cago, for hospital training. A lot of our training was classroom and book work. We spent only part of our time actually working work-ing in the hospital. 1 didnt have time to become homesick. We were kept busy studying and taking tests. 1 was a conscientious student and tried to do what I was supposed to do, so 1 studied quite a bit. In about August or September Septem-ber of 1945, 1 was assigned to the Seattle Naval Hospital. The war in Europe had ended when I was in New York, and the war in the Pacific ended while I was at Great Lakes. In Seattle, I did two things. Having worked for Mack Truck, 1 was pul in the procurement procure-ment office. My job almost all day long was to constantly call different companies that were supplying things to the milit ary to see when they were going to deliver. Some nights I would work on the ward. Our patients were injured in-jured men from the Pacific war who had been brought to the Seattle hospital. We were paid very little, and I was not a high-ranking person. We were just "hospital apprentices" with a number, though later our posit ion was changed to "hospital corps-man." corps-man." I worked in the office where the lady in charge of the WAVES worked, Ms. Bigelow. t was a little bit more privileged than some of the other girls, though she was always teasing me about being such a goody-goody goody-goody girl, and things like that. But it was just friendly teasing. The Latter-day Saint girls were different from the other girls. We didn't chase around like some of them did. Some of the girls would go running around every night, but on weekends we went to church. I met a .nice couple who invited us on weekends to their lovely home on a lake. 1 went to the ward Gold and Green ball. I also went to a few of the USO dances with my friend who wasn't a Latter-day Saint, but I wasnl too happy with some of the fellows we met there. They had different differ-ent standards thai I did. But it wasnt hard to get rid of boys, because they were stationed somewhere different than we were. 1 think the WAVES opened to me a vision that there was more in the world than just Salt Lake City. I also learned nursing nurs-ing skills that helped me take care of sick people, including my seven children, six of whom were adopt ed. These excerpts from local veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. 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