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Show ' f Ensign Kathryn Frost Completes Training i There are now more women officers of-ficers in the supply corps of the naval reserve than there were, men officer of the regular Navy on duty in the supply corps' in December, 1941, according to a recent release from Washington D.C. At that time, there were 638 officers in the Corps; today there are 655 women officers in the Corps which has grown approximately 1,800 per cent in strength in the last few yerrs. At Navy installations throughout through-out the country, women supply corps officers are performing a wide variety of duties, including pay and disbursing, war bond sales, nutrition and mass supervision, super-vision, purchasing, accounting and procurement. A number are serving ser-ving as disbursing officers for large V-12 units at colleges and universities, while others assigned assign-ed to general supply duties are responsible for the shipment and warehousing of large quantitie: of naval stores. Ensign Kathryn Frost, well-, known among Salt Lake City's younger set, has completed her special training at the U.S. Navy Supply Corps school, Radeliffe college, Cambridge, Mass., and is nw os duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, according to word received re-ceived from her. Ensign Frost, who joined the WAVES in February, 1943, received re-ceived her training at the U. b Naval Reserve Midshipmen s school in Northampton, Mass. Following her graduation in August Aug-ust she was stationed for three months at the naval supply depot at Scotia, Ney York, going from there to the supply corps school for her special training. Ensign Frost is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Frost, formerly of Salt Lake City, and at present residing in the east. Mrs. Frost attended her daughter's gradua-ation gradua-ation from the supply corps school on January 17. |