Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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...he also ln controst to the cutting of doll gorments, John ot ll pm. returns to college to work out on the footboll field, o ploce where he hos won his letter os o right end for two yeors. In the winter he boxes in intromurols, middle- weight closs. In spring, he turns out for trock, winning lost yeor the Northern Colifornio Conference chompion- ship in the jovelin throw. After dinner every night, Mondoy through Fridoy, there ore some 3,000 students trying to put off studying by listening to the rodio ond reoding the poper they missed in the morning. About 8 o'clock the music quiets down ond study begins, Some study, others whistle through their teeth, thumb o few poges, think obout the quiz tomorrow, coll up somebody to folk obout whoddoyo think he'll osk us. All the ones thot studied ond the ones thot conscientiously storted to study wind up ot the corner drug store or Ston's for o coke ground ten o'clock. Mills prefers o quort of milk, in between times, since he keeps troining the yeor oround. Un dote nights, once or twice o week ond week-ends, John ond his Phi Theto Koppo girl friend go out, usuolly on o double dote with some fellow from his boording house lbecouse John hos no corl. Other times they toke the street cor thot effectively serves the Junior Colleges lorge no-cor mojority. The dote itself doesn't meon much, soys John. Then he explciinsi We never plon. It's just, 'Well, whot'll we do?' ond we do it. Mostly we tolk, l guess. John ond his girl go to oll the donces ond gomes on student body cords, get homburgers or milk shokes ofter. Since such o lorge percentoge of men went into the Army this semester with the Notionol Gucird ond droft- ees, Mills, who will soon be Zl, hos it oll figured out. Probobly every other mon on the compus hos the some onswer: l'll be in college ond be deferred. Mills hos olreody hod his footbcill ond educotion interrupted once this yeor when he wos colled by the Novel Reserves. While in militory school, he enlisted ond served two sum- mers in the Communicotions Division. , John is the son of dn Americon soldier ond on English girl who were morried during the wor. l-listory repeots itself dromoticoly in the life of John Mills, o product of o first world wor morrioge, now pre- poring for o world shivering from the reverberotions of the second world wcir.

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