Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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We did o+iA, sienaiitQ me i ALMOST every day men left Wake Forest In serve in the armed forces. Many were drafted, some were called up in reserves, and others just volunteered. Ten of our profes- sors — Allen, Archie. Berry, Black, Copeland, Githens, Hagood, I-hell. Parcell, and Weaver — exchanged their classrooms for service posts. And from the fighting fronts we heard of the exploits of other Wake Forest men — of Generals Frank Armstrong and Caleb Haynes, and of the many privates and seamen and pilots and marines who wcic earning their places on America ' s roll of honor. 2s

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We we ie ejected ith aiil of colored odbye to Simmons j(L ch Phil I tley does his patriotic bit lir raid warden by posting blackout LIFE at Wake Forest was changed this year, too. There was no doubt about it. From the moment Dean Bryan announced in chapel that a division of the Army Finance School would settle down here in August, we know that we were in for a new kind of ex- perience — adapting ourselves and our school work to wartime conditions. And when the soldiers did arrive, we saw that we faced still another new experience — the feeling of sacrifice. Bv December we had given up our cafeteria, our gymnasium, our dormitories, our just- completed music-religion building, and two oi our classroom buildings. Five fraternities, forced out of Simmons, had had to find new houses. We found ourselves deprived of home basketball, taking physical education outdoors, eating in restaurants downtown, and rearranging our mode of life. But with all the shattering changes it brought about, the war had at least one wholesome ef- fect. Bv keeping us closer to school, by cut- ting out much of our fun. it made us more con- scious of the principles Wake Forest stands for in war as well as in peace. We came to ap- preciate more the place of a Christian college in the world ' s culture, and we looked forward to the day when Wake Forest could once again take up its task of education with all the resources at hand. ■

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Only three more days, laments senior Dean Willis a, he prepares to leave for Fort Bragg and induction with fellow ERC students. Willi-, ranking member of the Octet for two years. was among the reservists called to duty in mid-Apnl. if 9 T T- Dr. Nevill Isbell. now a lieutenant- colonel in chemical warfare, is interviewed at air field. Lieutenant Rudolph Bryant of the Marine Air Corps is welcomed hack home by two old classmates. Much -decorated Brigadier - Gei Frank Armstrong tells students of aerial adventures over Nazi Germany.