Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Left to Right: Leonard Judd Shirley Snyder Mary E. Black Wallace Zink SENIOR CLASS KINGPI5H The last pre-war class of Butler graduates. Do you recall sitting at the freshman orientation in the Fieldhouse when Dr. Robbins said that one out of every three of us would graduate? War changed that. Before stepping out into life, this graduating class would like to turn and look back on their college trail. Remember the C ? The Navy moving in? Football in the Bowl? The Relays? Then remember, too, the grim year of 1943, when we had no football or basketball, and only three class dances? Many of the ' 45ers left their saddle-shoes and cords at home to don a new uniform to answer a call, not the call of the Butler War Song, but the call to the colors, which meant the supreme sacrifice of many. Now 1945 has brought the return of basketball, informal dances, the Senior Ball, and the revival of class traditions — freshman pots, the fresh- man-sophomore fight, the Homecoming Dance and many other annual Butler events. In spite of the handicaps the class of ' 45 has had, it has come through with flying colors. In caps and gowns it made its first appearance on Founders ' Day, later at Honor Day and finally on the traditional day of fulfillment in June — graduation! Class officers this year were: Leonard Judd, president; Mary Elizabeth Black, vice-president; Shirley Snyder, secretary and Wallace Zink, treasurer.