Galloway, Irene O. (Irene Otilia), 1908-1963

From left to right, Colonel Irene Galloway, Fourth WAC director; Colonel Mary Hallaren (Ret) Third WAC director; Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret), Second WAC director; Colonel Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson WAC director and Major Mildred Bailey, Commanding Officer WAC, Detachment, Fort Myer, Virginia are attending a reception honoring the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Army Corps. The reception was held at Patton Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia.

Current and former Women's Army Corps (WAC) officers are manning the receiving line at a reception honoring the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the WACs. From left to right: unidentified woman (back to camera); Colonel Irene Galloway; Colonel Mary Hallaren (Ret.); Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret.); Lieutenant Colonel Catherine H. Foster; Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson (mostly obscured); and Major Mildred Bailey. The reception was held in Patton Hall at Fort Myer, Virginia.

From left to right, Colonel Irene Galloway, Fourth WAC director; Colonel Mary Hallaren (Ret) Third WAC director; Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret), Second WAC director; Colonel Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson WAC director and Major Mildred Bailey, Commanding Officer WAC, Detachment, Fort Myer, Virginia are attending a reception honoring the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Army Corps. The reception was held at Patton Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia.

Lieutenant Colonel Irene Galloway, outgoing Director Women's Army Corps (WAC), Colonel Mary Louise Milligan, newly appointed 5th Director of the WAC and Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret) greet each other at a party held in honor of Colonel Milligan held at the Fort McNair Officers Club, Washington, D.C. From left to right: Lieutenant Colonel Galloway, Colonel Milligan, and Retired Colonel Leslie,

Office of the Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, scene of a promotion and swearing in ceremony for Lieutenant Colonel Irene Galloway, new director of the Women's Army Corps. Attending the ceremony were, from left to right: Secretary Pace, Colonel Galloway, Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg, Colonel Mary A. Hallaren, Lieutenant General Anthony C. McAuliffe, Assistant Secretary of the Army Fred Korth, and Lieutenant General Maxwell D. Taylor.

A reception was given by Colonel Mary A. Hallaren at the fort McNair Officers Club for the new Women's Army Corps Director, Colonel Irene O. Galloway, who was promoted and sworn in the same day in the office of the Secretary of the Army, Frank Pace. From left to right: Colonel Galloway, Secretary Pace, Colonel Hallaren, and Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Pace.

A portrait of Lt. Col. Irene O. Galloway, was named Chief of the Women's Army Corps. Col. Galloway, who is from Carroll county, Iowa, will take over her new post on January 3, 1953. From: Beth Gore.