Wofford College - Bohemian Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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, „rl Converse E mOVE TO nEIGHBORIRG SCHOOLS On February I I the historic news was announced. Wofford, along with many other colleges and uni- versities, was to be taken over by the armed forces for use as a training school. An agreement was reached by which the Seniors and Juniors would finish the year at Converse and the Sophomores and Freshmen at Spartanburg Junior College. The change, by its very suddenness and complete- ness left most of us a little bedazzled, but after the strangeness wore off we rapidly got down to work at our new homes. Middle: After Chapel . . . BoHom left: James Wall relaxes in men ' s lounge.

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REUl THIRGS RROUnO UIOFFORD Precedent breaking cotton picking day came early in October. Given a holiday, the student body trooped to the fields around Spartanburg to help farmers harvest a cotton crop which threatened to be left in the fields because of a labor shortage. The plaque on the Fieldhouse wall in commem- oration of Roy Robertson, a man we knew and loved, serves as a grim reminder of the stakes for which we are fighting. A contingent of Preflight students march as they sing the Army Air Corps song.

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IDE LEflRn REUl UlflyS Wofford boys get acquainted with Junior College girls. After a few weeks a casual observer at either institution would not have suspected that the Wofford students were aliens. Our beloved forrr er Dean Dr. A. M. DuPre conducted the last chapel ceremony at Wofford. He renninded the Wofford men of their rich heritase of tradition and called on them to conduct themselves at their new places of learning as true gentlemen should. Every student felt the solemnness of the occasion as, to the strains of the Alma Mater, we marched out of the chapel for perhaps our last time as students of Wofford. The Wofford Campus now resounds with the beat of marching feet and singing voices as the Air Corps men go to and from classes. As true Wofford sons we of course miss our school, but we were glad to give her up as part of our contribution toward winning the war. Loading up the bus after drill for the trip home. Moving day at Wofford. 13