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Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret.) Becomes an Honorary Member of the Staff and Faculty of the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) School

From left to right, Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret.), Lieutenant Colonel Sue Lynch, and Mr. William Leslie are pictured as Colonel Leslie learns that she is to be made an honorary staff and faculty member of the United States WAC school at Fort McClellan, Alabama.

Reception Line at the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the Women's Army Corps (WAC)

From left to right, Colonel Mary Hallaren (Ret), Third Director of the WAC; Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret), Second Director of the WAC; Mrs. Hallaren, Colonel Hallaren's mother; Colonel Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson; and Mrs. Milligan, Colonel Rasmuson's mother, in a receiving line at a reception. The reception in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the WACs and was held at Patton Hall, Fort Meyer, Virginia. Others in the background are unidentified.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret) is Honored at Fort McClellan, Alabama

Former Director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), retired Colonel Westray B. Leslie is paying a visit to the Women's Army Corps School at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Standing on the stairs from left to right: Major E. Janet Chapman, Director of Instruction at the WAC School; Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret); Lieutenant Colonel Sue Lynch, WAC Center Commandant (behind Colonel Long); Sergeant Major Gaile Bossert; and Mr. William Leslie. Others are unidentified.

Bedouin Woman At St. Catherine's Monastery

Exterior view showing a Bedouin woman standing by a tree, taken at St. Catherine's Monastery located at the foot of Mt. Sinai in Egypt. Photo described by Charles Thayer as "a bedouin woman in her best clothes including an elaborate silver breast plate, poses in the garden of the Monastery with her young daughter." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to the area in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.