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D13267-1
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- 1942-08-14 (Creation)
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Mrs. Milton (Gladys) Fisher, left, and Miss Rosemary Stewart were two of area's volunteers with the USO Travelers' Aid Department. The Department had assistance booths at the Rust Building, the USO clubs and the bus stations. Mrs. Fisher was the general head of the Department and Miss Stewart was in charge of all volunteers at 12th and Fawcett. In all, over 75 people volunteered at the Aid locations and donated over 500 hours of service every month. The group handled the problems of thousands of visitors to Tacoma, over 99 per cent of them men in uniform. They maintained books with information on housing, churches, recreation and sight seeing as well as directing aid seekers to other agencies. (TNT 8/17/1942, pg. 6)
Stewart, Rosemary; Fisher, Gladys; World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Tacoma; United Service Organizations (Tacoma);