Barbara P. Jacobsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 11, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 465

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BARBARA P. JACOBSEN JULY 11,2002 said, a number of us teachers were there and would work together. That was enjoyable. We would sing as we'd go. WIN: I guess you'd travel out over Johnson's pass and down into Dugway? BAR: By Magna, usually. WIN: You'd go up and out. BAR: Both ways. WIN: Down through Skull Valley. BAR: We would take the bus. I didn't have a car. WIN: So you went wherever the bus went. BAR: Yes, I took the bus. I lived at the home of Cecil and Vera Tate. Cecil Tate was the mayor and he also owned the drug store. He was a pharmacist. Ceess has died. They had one daughter and a son. Their son was in the service and their daughter went to high school. But Vera Tate moved to Salt Lake after Cecil died. But, as I remember it. it was a very nice home and I paid thirty dollars a month for room and board. I lived with a gal named Roma Reber, a P.E. teacher. Roma, after our year there, joined the Red Cross. Again, I had another friend from Montpelier, Jeneil Wuthrich, who joined the WACs. She went overseas. As I looked at the different services, I felt that the WAVES, the Navy, really was one of the nicest women's services. [Editor's note: The idea of the WACs (Women's Army Corps), WAVES and SPARS was to free trained Naval menfrom desk jobs in order to increase the active fighting force--thus the rallying theme, "Free a man to fight." The new women's Naval Reserve units were called the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services) and, with its sister Coast Guard Reserve the SPARS, proceeded to immediately set up training schools at many colleges and universities across the country. Basic training sites for enlisted women were located at 16