University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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8 Washburn and East Halls

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History - i t ♦ In the world today history is being made at such a rapid pace, and the events have been so tremendous, that sometimes we lose sight of the fact that we, too, have been living in a historical sense. Our events have not made the front pages of newspapers but certainly we have written a page of history in the chapter of the College. Our page is mostly the story of a struggle to preserve the organizations and the spirit of the College during the war and to give back to the servicemen in our class, and in other classes, the same Rhody that they left. We did not want them to come back and have to blow away the dust of inactivity before they could start in where they left off. The Class of 1945 never really started. It just accumulated. Some of us were here a little early and didn’t accelerate; another came back after serving with the armeq forces, but most of us arrived in September of 1942 and are the product of a concentrated and accelerated college life which has meant many things besides vacations being few and far between. We were green that September almost three years ago, but we were very willing to learn and we still think our Freshman year was as wonderful as that of any pre- ceding class. Acceleration had started and our “freshman week” was cut short, but we had three full days of stag lines, teas, and making mistakes by ourselves. We learned our school songs; we wore our green ribbons and our frosh caps; we -4 21 )■ -