Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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QV. hen this book is placed in your hands the college year of 1946 will be at an end. Within its pages yon will doubt- less find many things that will make yoti pause for a moment and lose yoiuself in dreams of the days you have just experienced. You will remember how the student body began to increase and ho v the college took on a post var appearance. You will remember the boys drifting in one by one, returning from variotis branches of the service to resiune their education. College life hadn ' t been the same withotu them, and yoti welcomed them back. You will definitely remember how the college retiuned to its wide-scale athletic program and how you rooted ior yoiu- team from the side lines. You can ' t forget binning the midnight oil as you crammed for exams, biting yoiu fingernails in class, nor the Thursday night dances. You vill remember ho v you learned to do without biuter and how you vaited for the mail to arrive each morning. You can ' t forget the color of the lea ' es in the autiunn, the snows that came in the winter and how you walked among the daffodils in the spring. Yes, these things were a part of your life at Middle Ten- nessee State, but foremost in your mind will be those demo- cratic ideals that this institution and its faculty have instilled in you as you sought a bit of knowledge. They will never fade into obscurity but will always remain a vital jjart of your life. In order that you may reminisce and that you may have something to cause you always to cling to Middle Tennessee State as yoin- Alma Mater, the staff offers you this twenty- first volume of the MiDLANDER. Herein are yoin- daydreams— FOREWORD

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CO U — PUBLISHED B ' THE H- LU STUDENT BODY J n: MIDDLE TENNESSEE »- STATE COLLEGE • MURFREESBORO CO TENNESSEE LU Gi VOLUME TWENTY-ONE D 1- DEMOCRACY AXD EDUCATION LU THE EIRST POSTWAR VOLUME LL )ReANIZATIONS MIDLANDER

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DEDICATION Since the last publication of the Midlaxder peace has come to the world. The student body has welcomed back throughout the year the boys who have returned. Because we welcome them back and because they postponed their education to preserve the democratic principles for vhich this institution stands, we dedicate to them, the veterans of ' orld War II, this volume of the Midlander. We recognize through the following list the veterans who vere em-ollcd in Middle Tennessee State during the fall a id winter (luarters. 1)A ID AdAMSON Thomas C;. Brandon James A. Brooks William CXarence Bryan Billy Pendley Burch James Ivan C:ali-ee John Edward C:arlton Fred Albert Casity Thomas S. Cole William H. Cook Lon Hall Damdson tXiFFORD B. nA AULT Rhett Danley John W. Davis Joseph W. Davis Hlch Russell Dorris Willie Cill Dinawa ' s James M. Elrod Hulsev E. Ferrill CiLEESON p. FRAZIER James W. Garner Thomas G. Gault Donald C. Gibson Joe Compton Gibson Lude C. Goodman Robert C;ordon George CiRAU J. D. Greer Martin Luther Harris Samuel Ormlle Henley John R. Hill William Millard Hines Owen Hut Matthew Hodgson |oHN H. Hurt Fhomas Harold Jordan Glen Edward Kinnard Harold R. Knowles |oi I,. Maddox Richard M. Mansfield John X. McBride James J. Mc:Clarnev Cowden McCord James DeWitt rcCuLLOUGH Robert Eugene McIntire Edward E. Miller. Jr. Harold X. Mulligan William Thomas NFullins Thomas M. Osborne Ray C:. Patterson William H. Patterson Charles R. Phillips Lawrence Pigh C:harles H. Qualls c:harles J. Raper Ra moni) L. Russ Horace Smii.ev George Smith Owen D. Stewart Elbert L. Sullivan James .Summers Herman Vestal ARPLK James W. Walls William W. Wilson William .Stone Wiseman Randall C. Wood William W. Woodruff George P. Wright