Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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In his book, Days of Our Years, Pierre Von Paassen has told of his life from boyhood days in Holland, through college days at a Methodist school in Canada and World War days in an alien army to sad reminiscent days back in Holland. He describes the rumblings of European discontent, the storm, and the havoc. And back in his home locality after more than twenty years, he sits by a window, looks out on a changed, unrecognizable world and muses, “These people have changed . . . the whole world has changed, but I have changed too.” Then he comments, “I felt like a man who stands by the ruins of his own house.” And later he ques¬ tions, “How can we have faith . . . ?” “Days of Our Year,” a book about Marion College, tells a different story. It pictures con¬ tentment rather than fear and doubt; it presents cooperation instead of dictatorship; in place of havoc it describes building— building clean lives and godly character — building to make America strong and Christian. 1 9 4 2 l l ]arionette Richard V. Chambers Editor Mark E. Walter Business Manager Prof. Donald H. Porter Adviser

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OUR t ed nCett er days For twenty-two autumns now stu¬ dents have come from half the states in the nation to begin a year at Marion College. Sometimes it’s for another year, sometimes for the first year; but always a year anticipated, anxiously awaited, and gladly begun. Below left, Opal, secretary to the president, smiles as she greets stu¬ dents, dispenses registration cards, and gives all manner of information. For four years now Opal has been at her desk in the Ad Building hall, welcoming students, old and new, and starting them on a year at M. C. And before the registration is over everyone will sooner or later find his way to the president’s office. Below right, Marilyn “talks it over” with the president, who knows all the answers and solves all the problems. With his signature, and the one re¬ maining formality of a visit to the treasurer’s office, the year has of¬ ficially begun. Then ensue thirty-six weeks of epochal struggles. The brave student begins his year’s race full of life and vigor, and, blissfully oblivious of the maddening weeks ahead—12, 18, 24, 30, 32, 33—and he is nearing the end.