Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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SOUTHERN ACCENT or, the Post-war Progress of Pete Panther at Birmingham-Soutliern College 1946-47, Birmingham, Alahama IRVIN M. LANDE, n, CATHERINE STDNE, K. ' uiineii illlanaqer

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F R E W D R Here is the picture story of what happened at Birmingham- Southern College when the war was over, when the eterans flocked back to take their places once again in Ramsay, in the Bookstore, in Munger, and everywhere else on the Hilltop. Here is thfe result of the reassertion of the educational aml)itions of some 1500 students as they sought seriously to prepare themselves for their proper place in the post-war progress of a greater America. Here is the i)icture story of the efforts of the student body of Birmingham-Southern to achieve a maximum of accomplishment in scholastic realms without sacrificing those extracurricular activities so indispensable to making college life the most memorable episode in their very significant lives. It seemed as if it were to be their destiny not only to be participants in the greatest war of history, but also to be the men and women upon whom rested the Herculean task of demonstrating whether or not American education could cope with the most turbulent problems of this, or any, era. How did the students at Birmingham-Southern react? ' hat did they do to realize the dreams they had conjured up while in the South Pacific, in Italy, over Tokyo? And what have they been doing to prepare themselves to become citizens of a world that will not allow the horrible holo- caust they have endured to occur again? The key to the future, then, may be found in the following pages. For in the social, political, and scholastic activities of the students who have been so fortunate as to attend ' Southern may be found to