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From the Archives: A ‘Hello Girl’ of WWI writes home to San Diego in December 1918 [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Evelyn Tilleard Cooper, a former French teacher at the Francis W. Parker school, was the first woman from San Diego to enlist as a telephone operator for the Army’s Signal Corps during World War I. Cooper was was one of 233 women who served in France and England, often under combat conditions. They were more commonly known as “Hello Girls.”
From the Evening Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 7, 1918:
Life of ‘Hello Girls’ with Army in field has little pleasureAn interesting picture of the life of the telephone girls who are “enlisted men” in the signal corps of Gen. Pershing’s army in France is given in a letter just received from Miss Evelyn Tilleard Cooper of this city. These young women played an important part in the war, though like many other things were an innovation in war.
President Donald Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act Wednesday afternoon
The bill, among other things, includes a provision to rename 10 military bases named after Confederate figures
Trump originally objected to that part of the bill, but later said he would veto it unless Congress changed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
The president and other Republicans have said the section gives too much protection to big tech companies like Facebook and Twitter
The bill passed both the House and Senate with veto-proof majorities and so Congress is expected to override Trump s veto in the days after Christmas
Evelyn Tilleard Cooper, a former French teacher at the Francis W. Parker school, was the first woman from San Diego to enlist as a telephone operator for the Army’s Signal Corps during World War I. Cooper was was one of 233 women who served in France and England, often under combat conditions. They were more commonly known as “Hello Girls.”
From the Evening Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 7, 1918:
Life of ‘Hello Girls’ with Army in field has little pleasure
An interesting picture of the life of the telephone girls who are “enlisted men” in the signal corps of Gen. Pershing’s army in France is given in a letter just received from Miss Evelyn Tilleard Cooper of this city. These young women played an important part in the war, though like many other things were an innovation in war.
Virtual Picnic Day will celebrate silver linings
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Whither tradition? This 1926 horticulture float a train of miniature refrigerator cars loaded took first place in the Picnic Day parade. Hattie Weber Museum courtesy photo
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Student board announces 2021 marshals
UC Davis’ 2021 Picnic Day event, scheduled for Apr. 17, will have the theme “Discovering Silver Linings” and will feature Dr. Lawrence Torry Winn and Maisha T. Winn as its marshals, Picnic Day Publicity Director Alexis Tornero announced Friday in a press release.
For the second year running, the annual event will be held virtually in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tornero announced last month.
08 December 1947
The first computing start-up was the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded by American researchers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly (both USA) on 8 December 1947. The company was created to build and sell computers, supported by the portfolio of patents filed by its two founders during their work on ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsylvania s Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
Eckert and Mauchly had begun thinking about how their inventions might be commercialized as early as 1944. Interviews with officials from the US Census Bureau and the Army Signal Corps persuaded them that there would be a market for electronic computers in the post-war era. In March 1946, shortly after ENIAC was unveiled to the public, the two left the University of Pennsylvania to avoid having to sign over their patents to the university, and began looking for investors.