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

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The Class of 1945 THIS WAS THE YEAR that we had looked forward to. At last we were seniors. When as freshmen, insignificant but secure, knowing everything about everything, we thought ahead to our Senior year, we saw ourselves as enviable big shots standing like demigods at the pinnacle ol our education. We laugh when we remember that day of our first registration at the college. We wandered around not knowing where to go or what to do. We gaped at the important looking seniors and longed to reach that goal. Well, we have reached it. And now a truth has dawned upon us. For sixteen years we have worn the snug cloak of education and been protected from the challenging winds of the world. Now the cloak is slipping from our shoulders and we can do nothing about it. Probably the predominant clement in the thought of everyone of us is fear. Where do we go now? Hov» will we live? Will we wear the radiance of success or the slump of defeat? Most important of all. will we be happy? The world we must live in is not the steady, safe one we left four years ago. As always, it presents us with prospects of hardships and happiness, mingled justice and injustice. But there is the added element of un- certainty, of change. And we who have remained in school these years when our classmates were fighting will he expected to carry a double load of responsibility. We no longer have illusions about our own wisdom or capability, hut we are sure of one thing. If anyone can live well in this changing world, we can. We are Wake Forest men! 24

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STUDENT COUNCIL, left to right Charles Morns, Jack Southard, John Sii Ernest C. Nott, Jr.. William H. Bland. Nick Sacrmtv. Vice President. Clarence Bowe Secretary; W. Elmer Barbour, Willie Mae Collier, Pride Ratterree. Dewev Hobbs, J Calvin S. Knight. Prestdent; James Mattox. Virginia Gilley. Tli« Student p Body (l THESE PAGES you meet the students of Wake Forest College for the academic year 1944-45. This student body set several precedents for the College. It was the youngest group in many years and the most strongly feminine ever to enroll at Wake Forest. In Sep- tember there were 552 students in the College. One hundred twenty of these were women and 293 were fresh- men. But mam withdrew to go into military service before the spring. On this page are the two groups the students chose to govern them. The Student Council oriented the fresh- men, put power behind the honor system, and fostered drives to keep the students behind the war. The Girls Council handled the problems of initiating girls into the life of a man s school. GIRLS COUNCIL, left to right, first Vick. Second row: Rachel Thompso Gilley. President, Altha Satterwhite. 23

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i n i r The Class of IWWl : Jl Mki ■ — i ■■■ii ■iiil 8 »S ■ ■■• XSB1 1 - ■ H CLARENCE BOWEN was selected by the senior class as one of its outstanding members because of his fair and purposeful leadership of the student body and his versatile skills and interests. FREDERICK AMON Charlotte, N. C. adel 1 2; Football 3. 4; Monogram Club 4; Vete MRS. KENT HODNEII BARBEE Wake Forest. N. C. CHARLES THOMAS BARBOUR Wake Forest. N. C. HARRIS YATES BINGHAM Monroe. N, C. B.A. Wingate Junior College 1, 2: Omicron Delta Kappa; Delta Kappa Alpha; Sigma Pi Alpha; Philomathesian Literary Society 3. 4. Ministerial Conference 1. 2. 3. 4; B.T.U. President 2, 3. 4; Glee Club 1. 3; Society Dav Declamation Winner 3: Founder ' s Day Speaker 3. WILLIAM HERBERT BLAND New Bern. N. C. 3. 4; Band 4; Little Theater 4. CLARENCE FLOYD BOWEN Durham. N. C B A i n Campbell Junior College 1, 2; President Student Body, Campbell 2. Wake Forest 4; Omicron Delta Kappa; Alpha Psi Omega. President 4; Eta Sigma Phi; Who ' s Who Among Students. Publications Board 4. Little Theater. Director 3. 4; Student Council 1, 2. 3. 4. RUSSELL HAROLD BRANTLEY ' , JR. Zebulon, N. C i Delta Kappa: Who ' s LONNIE ROSS BROCK, JR. Mount Olive, N. C. Mars Hill College 1. 1, 2; B.T.U. 1. 2. 3: Glee Club 3.