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

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THE FACULTY Do you think that faculty members severe, aloof, just a little queer—or ■ That profound scholarship, .--kill in tc. insistence on high standards of achie incompatible with informality or pis where have you been all these months? vou have not participated in faculty-student golf games on the course maintained free for you, with- out even the necessity or opportunity of paying caddy fees. You have not played ping pong at the Student Center; you have not hung around the soda fountain in the College Bookstore; vou in. st« I ' ll. ry que er? hing, iml UK nt ire ? If so. Ob vim sly Students and fa sembly of the yea hip together Four students become absorbed in a chess game, vl faculty members chat about the possibilities of hold another open bouse in the near future. the parade have not tarried for informal chats in departmental headquarters; you must have been in bed in the hospital with the door locked when the students and the faculty met in the Community Center on Saturday nights for games, square dances, singing and refreshments. In a word, you are a queer one — or you don ' t exist. Ours has always been known as the friendly campus, where no one. student or faculty member, passes another with- out a greeting; where democracy is real and genuine, and where snobbery is the unpardonable campus sin. The ties of comradeship and sympathy have been especially closely drawn during recent weeks and months, as observed and re- marked by students in uniform who have come back for a final look about the campus before leaving for foreign shores. WAIT HALL

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WOMEN ' S ADMINISTRATION Lois Johnson Dean of Women Do you have a problem to be solved in an unknown tongue? Any question about modern foreign languages? Sue Dean Lois Johnson. The men of the department have ail gone to war and will not come back until it ' s over over there. Are you planning a social evening at the Community Center or elsewhere? See Dean Johnson. Are you down on your courses? Been playing about too much when you should have been working? If you are a co-ed, see Dean Johnson right away before she sees you. Homesick? Lost your best friend? Lost your purse or lipstick? See Dean Johnson. Wish to know why the transition to co-education at Wake Forest has been so smooth and easy, and is here to stay? See Dean Lois Johnson— above the rotunda in Wait Hall, second door, right. BOSTWICK HALL

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t LEA LABORATORY CHEMISTRY the service a year ago. In the rush of happy greeting you study his sensitive features, being you emerge from the west door of Wait troubled by somthing that you cannot quite define. you bump into your best friend, who entered F| n .,]i v vmi decipher it, an,] you feel lonely in spite of your gladness: somehow Joe lias pulled away from you, as if each of your recent months had been stretched into so many years in his life. ••Come lie says, and show me around. We can talk wlnl, ' we walk. Yon eider the ivy-covered Chemistry building, climb the stairs, and interrupt Dr. Walter J. Wyatt and Assistant Professor John A. Freeman who are assembling materials for an experiment. They have been carrying a heavy load to meet the demands id ' the war emergency, and they are al- ways busy. lint they pause gladly to chat with .foe, who keeps glancing about as if missing some- thing or somebody. Perhaps he has forgotten chemistry laboratory. Wyatt and Freeman weigh atoms in tin that Dr. Black and Dr. Isbell left before h