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

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ENGLISH AND LANGUAGES Next you stroll over to the English head- quarters, entering just as a photographer ' s Hush bulb explodes, with the result that you see here. The professorial seriousness vanishes and Joe is given a hearty greeting. The conversation around the big seminar table, where Joe once had a seat with the group study- ing the modern novel, turns into one of the familiar bull sessions, chiefly about Wake Forest men in various parts of the world and about the good old days before the summons to war. and about Joe ' s plans for the future — a future that seems rather hazy and uncertain. Joe learns that Hagood is a captain in the service; that all classes are running as usual, though smaller, and that nearly all students are trying to learn to speak and write English, not knowing but that they may have use for it in some foreign country. You sit for a while and smoke with the four men with pipes in their mouths: .Jones, Folk, Griffin, and Brown, while Aycock listens to the talk and adds his remarks as he ruffles through some pictures for his art class. Reluctantly Joe gets up to leave, hut his time is short and he must keep moving. He hesitates at the door of the Modern Language department as he sees three ladies seated at a table — Dean Johnson and Instructors Dowtin and Wyatt. You should have warned him, for there were only men in the department when he took his courses in lan- guage. But the men are all in the service, as he now learns, and the three co-ed faculty members carry on. You learn that Dr. (of Ft.) H. D. I ' arcell, under whom you had French, in serving in North Africa, that Professor Robert M. Browning, German teacher, also is on dutv over- The pipe smoking English Depi in books for the photographer. Dr. Jones, Dr. Folk, 1 ' rotVsso Professor Aycock. ri t displays its interest i left to right we have iwn. Dr. Ciriffen and seas, and that Professor (now Capt.) William C. Archie is stationed at a camp in Texas. Joe has little Latin and less Greek, as Ben Jonson said of Shakespeare, hut he has two good friends in the classical section of Wait Hall — first floor, north — ready to talk about golf. Masonry, campus politics, student social life, new deal, in- ternational politics, or classical scholarship, ac- cording to your mood or interest, or to crack a joke with the best of the wits. But today there is no jesting in this classical atmosphere, as you The co-ed members of the faculty, Miss D and Dean Johnson, chat about members o who have been under-exposed to languages. Drs. Poteat and Earp ) and gladiators to grin ov and the two professors and Joe, in his lieutenant ' s uniform of navy blue, stand talking — for Dr. Poteat has two sons in the same uniform who have been in the thick of the conflict for many months, so much like Joe. Joe thinks he is headed for the Mediterranean area and, like some other students he is told about, intends to look with keen interest at many of the places and ruins familiar to these classical scholars.

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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

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■ S( )CIAL SCIENCE, MUSIC, Investigation of Idealism, only to go out and have his own idealism put to the severest test. Keeping PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION your eye on ,„,, watch, ,o„ soon drag Joe away and down the hall to the Music office. Seeing the photographer coming through the old-fashioned little double d -s that always manage to bump your elbows at the foot of the stairs in the Library building, you and Joe make a dash for the Social Science headquarters on the second floor. You are just in time, for they are all there, even Dr. Rea, and all rather dazed ex- i affectionately known K V » B B ' Skinny, whose shoulders are wiggling as he finds relief from the tension in his characteristic semi- silent laughter. You head for the .Music and Hi. ' Philosophy headquarters. Through the ope,, door of the Philosophy Seminar you see the hack of an erect man some one gazing philosophically through the third floor window at a silvery cloud in the Professors West, Pearson, Hunts and Uea, of the social Tr T ■ science department, pose for their pictures in the department east. Here Joe spent many studious hours not office. so long ago, searching through the hundreds of neatly-arranged hooks that line the walls in his Director Thane MacDonald is putting things in order, preparatory to going into the military service while he listens to a recording. Joe was a member of the Glee Club, realizes the inestimable contribution that Thane MacDonald has made to the College, and is saddened to realize that his As the music department ' s recording machine plays Anchors Away Mr, McDonald thinks of his Forthcoming seagoing days. Directo Hack sine shop to follow him info Ih These thoughtful gentlemen represent the religious phi of campus life. Seated are Drs. Binkley and Easley the religion department. Mr. Olive, college chaplain, stai behind. on the first floor, where Religion provides a solid has,- for the super-structure of college htV. you find the chaplain. Eugene (Hue. in conference with Dr. Binkley and Dr. Easley. As yo„ drag Joe away, he quotes the Nurse of Roikeo cmd Juliet: () Lord. I could have stay d here all the night to hear B I counsel! '