Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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The Ciarla Staff Editor-in-Chief Luther A. Krouse Assistant Editor-in-Chief Lloyd M. Beilis Associate Editors Werner T. Jentsch Dalton F. Schwartz Frederick H. Worsinger Walter J. Smith Business Managers Stewart H. Nase Harold Romig Frank M. Brown Advertising Managers Mark A. Wetherhold Photographers Walter J. Smith Russell D. Snyder G. Charles Goering Arthur H. Getz L. Augustus Markley Paul W. Shankweiler W. Bruce Macintosh Artist Edwin G. Arner

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IT WAS with much fear and trembling that the Junior Class took upon itself the responsibility and the task of publishing a CIARLA this year. A staff had been elected in February, 1917, shortly before the outbreak of the War, and plans had been laid for a CIARLA which was to surpass in every detail the Annuals of all previous classes. But in April, war was declared, all college activities were suspended, and before May the first all but a handful of students had joined either the Army or the Navy, or had enlisted for work in the State Agricultural Forces. Titus V. Druckenmiller, our Business Manager, was among the first who answered the call for volunteers in the regular army. Several of the editors followed his example and work on the 1919 CIARLA had to cease. Upon the opening of College in September, the vacancies thus created on the CIARLA Board were filled and activities resumed. But now the staff had to face new difficulties, this time in the form of a smaller Student Body, a feeling of uncertainty for the future on the part of everyone of us, and a disastrous ruling adopted by the Allentown Chamber of Commerce forbidding merchants to advertise in our publication. This last almost completely sealed the death w-arrant of our already doubtful CIARLA. However, thanks to the few faithful advertisers and the loyal support of our friends, sufficient funds were raised to enable us to put out this volume, a very much abbreviated epitome of the past year. But in spite of all these drawbacks, we trust that you may still find some pleasure in reading this WAR ISSUE of the 1919 CIARLA. THE EDITOR.

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THE “CIARLA” STAFF AT WORK