Women

From left to right, entertainer Kay Kyser, Mrs. J. S. Pierce and Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret) are chatting at the Homecoming Day dinner held at the Ricks Hotel in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Man in the background is unidentified.

Retired Colonel and Director of the Women's Army Corps (WACs) Westray B. Leslie (left) is introduced to the Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr (right) by current director of the WACs, Colonel Mary Louise Milligan (center), at the nineteenth Anniversary party for the founding of the WACs. The party was held at Patton Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia. Others in the background are unidentified.

Retired Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (left) is greeting Second Lieutenant Linda K. Manning (right) at a reception during her visit to the Women's Army Corps Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Also present is the Commandant of the Center, Lieutenant Colonel Sue Lynch.

Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, First Army WAC Staff Advisor (left) presents the first piece of cake to Mrs. Betsy Talbot Blackwell (second from left), editor of "Mademoiselle" magazine and member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, while former WAC director, Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret) (second from right) and First Army Commander, Lieutenant General B.M. Bryan (right) look on. The party, in celebration of the sixteenth anniversary of the Women's Army Corps, was held at Fort Jay, New York.

Entertainer Kay Kyser (seated, second from left) and retired Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (seated, third from left) converse at the Homecoming Day celebration in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Others are unidentified.

From left to right, Mrs. R. H. Booth, Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, Mrs. B. M. Bryan and Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret.) pose for a photograph during a party at Fort Jay, New York, to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of the Women's Army Corps.

From left to right, Lieutenant Colonel Pauline V. Houston, Chief WAC Officer Career Management; Mrs. Alice Milligan, mother of Colonel Milligan; Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret), second director of the WAC; Lieutenant Colonel Rebecca S. Parks, Office Director WAC. The officers are pictured at a reception at the Fort McNair Officers' Club honoring Colonel Mary Louise Milligan (not shown) upon her appointment as the fifth Director of the WAC.

Music of the 14th Army Women's Army Corps band is played while Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret) (foreground, wearing corsage) enters the auditorium at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Others in the background are unidentified.

From left to right, Mrs. Kay Kyser, Kay Kyser, and retired Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie participate in the Homecoming Day celebration at the Ricks Hotel in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Others in the background are unidentified.

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.