Allegheny College - Kaldron Yearbook (Meadville, PA)

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But the high-spot of the year was the U. S. O. dance given in Brooks for the de-quarantined Air Corps. After two weeks of mutual speculation from afar, the great meeting at last took place. Amid gales of laughter from the girls and pangs of acute embarrassment among the cadets, the affair started with a mixer -a polite name for a mad dash in which the female Alleghenians rushed from one side of the dining room, all bent on grabbing that tall, dark sopliisticate who looked good even in C. l. clothes, and the soldiers who were not as bewil- dered as might be expected headed for Kay Reed. After the hilarity of the first few moments and the rush weekish conversationf4'How do you like our school? What did you do before you joined the arn1y?'7--had died down everyone enjoyed themselves and the soldiers went back to Caliisch Barracks quite satisfied with the co-eds. Needless to say, the co-eds in question were over- joyed lay the whole affair and did not hesitate to follow up their advantage. It would he safe to say that every unattaehed girl in the dorm had one, if not more, khaki- Clad date the next day-undeniable proof that the dance was a success. But many and sad were the discoveries that the tall, dark sophisticate and his equally desirable buddies had a wife and kiddies back in Brooklyn.

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QW' 'W --ww The smiling group gatlwrml above is AllPgll6lly.S von- tribution to the Enlisted lleselwe Corps. They loft in a body from Nleaclvillv and their departure was thc first re-al sample of what the war will nwun to Alleghvny. Campus leaflvrs, first smnester Freshnien, and lust S6lll?SlCl' Seniors were takvn without regard and a serious lmlow was dvalt our attempts at ll0l'lll2lll'y. Carrie and Ellis are only one of lllillly Llllllilllljy couples who parted at the dreary lfrie Station aftvr El long wait in the cold. 'gllll be waitingf'

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THE LA FULL LIEUTENANT OLIVER WALKER Un February 27, 1943, just a week before he would have completed his training and come home on fur- lough, Ollie Walker was killed with his eleven crew members when the Flying Fortress he was piloting exploded in mid-air at H uron, South Dakota. Lt. Walker attended flllegheny for three years in the class of 1942 before enlisting in the Air Corps and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. To the family and friends of the first Alleghenian known personally by the students now in college to be killed in this war, we extend our deepest sympathies.