Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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r -Jjedi tli icciuon Innate in every American is the desire to serve. To serve! To us that means not the destruction of the individualism and the essence of American living, but the pro motion of the general welfare of each. We are an ambitions and purposeful people, eager to experience the success resulting from our labors. Enthusiasm for our work is prompted by the anticipation of final achievement. Thus it is that the year 1944 has found us a nation in service. A world-wide co?ifiict has necessitated the participation of all people in a united effort to win not only the war but also the peace. America ' s me i and women are serving i?i the armed forces, producing the armaments and supplies needed by the fighting men, contributing their time to wartime activities, and studying with increased interest under the impetus of the prevailing need. Xo one is allowed to forget that this is his war. Service is stressed, it is encouraged, it is publicized, it is impressed upon the minds of the people. But service is also composed of the smaller peacetime deeds developing from the individual ' s contributiofis toward any good end. It may be work well done for one ' s college, functioning o)i a committee, or merely giving one ' s support to a planned activity. For those who serve, the accomplished task is the reward for then- effort. To serve is to accomplish. To those who live the American spirit of service the nineteen hundred and forty-four AURORA is dedicated. a- Editor . . . Janet Mitchell

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MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN 1944

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opeu or J II e, the staff , present the nineteen hundred and forty -jour AURORA, a printed record of one of your years at Michigan State Normal College. Some of the events recorded will within a short time have been forgotten; others will re?nain as life time memories. The A UROR. i is published to help you keep this year you have lived as a factual reality. Because it has become an integral part of your life, both in and out of the college surroundings, service was selected as the theme. You have become accustomed to the added push required to reach the desired end and have found the pearl of satisfaction that comes from achievement. Due to the decreased enrollment each campus activity has called for the support of the entire student body. It has been given, a?id you have witness in the success of the events the result of this service. But your cooperatio? has not been confined to the college alone as you have answered the greater needs for service, which have been blood-donors, Red Cross workers, bond buyers, and members of the U.S.O. Your contributions have demanded the use of the mind and the hand. The mind commands; the hand performs. Because performance is essential to service the ha?id was selected to portray the theme. We give you the hands of the administrator, the student the club member, the athlete, and the soldier assuming their dutiful roles in the world of today . Business Manager . . . Mary Alice Lyngklip