Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Mgustam in War- Zime On every hand the war has made its influences felt on the campus during this academic year of 1943-1944. Large vacant portions of the chapel have daily made us aware of the absence of our men students. We miss familiar faces in the faculty ranks. The bleachers on the athletic field have been strangely vacant. For months the Victory Bell has not been heard. We have become accustomed to novel sights and sounds. Air Force cadets have marched in double file between the buildings. They have drilled endlessly upon the field. Each evening at sunset Retreat has sounded and the flag been lowered. Songs of the Air Force have taken the place of college songs and yells. Martial music has accompanied the Saturday morning review. A curious inter-mingling of civilian and mflitary has characterized the year at Augustana. Our thoughts have not been confined to the campus. More than ever the mail boxes have drawn the attention of students and faculty alike. There have been letters from all the far corners of the earth. They have told of foreign scenes and exciting events, of unexpected meetings, of hopes and future plans. Almost continuously there have been visitors — blue or khaki, of all ranks, in all services. They have told of camp, or training, or of battle, in air, on sea, on land. So short the interval of time since the visitor was student here — so far away the days of the campus at peace, when Andreen and East and West Hall rang with merry laughter! And amid the letters and visitors have come the somber messages of those who never will return — those who have answered the final roll call. So much has happened, so much is happening, that predictions of days to come are idle. But in the terror of a world in flames one catches momentary glimpses of what endures and what will perish. Friendship crystalizes. Courage and faith remain. The resolve that we must go on, will not die. The conviction that God is -still in His heaven when all ' s wrong with the world, still holds. And for many of us Augustana comprehends just such things — friendship, faith, high resolve, noble endeavor. Some spark of it may be on the coral reefs of the Pacific, some on the sands of Africa or the icy mountains of the Aleutians. But wherever it is in the hearts of those who are far away or close at hand, Augustana is a flame that kindles mind and soul, and casts a bright, warm Hght amid the darkest circumstances. It ' s radiant ray is a promise of a brighter, clearer day. v - »t t u r- ' PRESIDENT CONRAD BERGENDOFF, AB., AM., B.D., Ph D , Th I

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faculty Arthur A. Wald, A.B., Ph.D Dean o the College o Liberal Arts and Pro essor of Swedish Language and Literature Dora Cervm, A B , AM. Dean of Women and Instructor m Christianity Harry S. B. Johnson, A.B., B.D. Dean of Men and Assistant Professor of Creel{ and Christianity.