Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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But hardly without our noticing itein just a moment when we had our backs turnede-our hrst attack of Beloit finals hit us. It was the day of the accelerated program, and we were faced with five or six healthy exams in a four-day perioda-from Tuesday until Friday, with Classes all day Monday. Funny, we hadrft been told much about this sort of thing in the The silence of our halls was tomb-like. Women wore bluejeans and didntt put their ek ritual! And then, just as they had come like a sudden stab in the back thy our alma mater; too-rthat was what was hard to takei, they were over. We had weathered the crisis and were ready to receive our first grades, from Beloit College. Immedi- ately we saw who the icbrainstt were, and who-we11, who the rest of us were. And now as sec- ond semester frosh, we knew our way around just a little better. But the 01d Beloit had run its course and it was not yet time for the new Beloit. As eighteen- year-old kids we were to see and to feel what a war could do to our collegiate careers. We had started out two hundred strong and by the end of our hrst year had lost just about a hundred of squarely catalogue. hair up-eone had to follow the exam we DOLAN, PATRICIA DUPEE, MARY DURLING, BARBARA FREEMAN, GENEVA Delta Delta Delta Delta Gamma Delta Gamma English . English , English Government Beloit, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois Freeport, Illinois Chicago, Illinois HANUSHEK, JULIANNE HODGSON, BARBARA HOTCHKISS, KATHERINE JOERMS, LUCILLE Kappa Delta Delta Gamma Independent Physics Geology English Music Chicago, Illinois Bay Village, Ohio Wauwatosa, Wisconsin . Beloit, Wisconsin

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ALCAN, EVERETT Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chemistry Beloit, Wisconsin ANDERSON, JOAN Delta Gamma Spanish Rockford, Illinois BENSON, CAROL Delta Delta Delta Sociology Gary, Indiana BRAMAN, BARBARA Delta Gamma Sociology Milwaukee, Wis. BURRls, VIRGINIA CANDY, ARDIS COLLINGBOURNE COPELAND, NANCY Biology Independent MARGARET Delta Gamma Rockford, Illinois Biology Pi Beta Phi Sociology Milwaukee, Wis. English Davenport, Iowa Elgin, Illinois VV E, the Class of 1946 twhen we were sophomores we said the halmightyh Class of VLQ were the first to enter Beloit after a war had been declared, and are now the first to leave after a hard- fought-for peace has been won. Our generation has been a wartime one. Vaguely, from the very early days of our freshman year, we recall the ccold Beloitf, We women lived in Chapin, North college and Porter house, while the boys lived in North dorm and the Haveh. For one semester we knew what big time college life was like. With reckless abandon we took to Cigarettes and smoking like nsh take to water. Men wore green frosh caps until Thanksgiving, and women blackened their teeth and wore stocking caps on a week rightfully called tthell week? It was only after the D slips came out that we realized there might be another objective in Beloit College. But what was a D slip tor three or four D slipst when fmals were so far away and the Christmas formal was upon us? Come Christmas time and we were hilariously happy to be going home agam-college was such a strainebut two weeks later we were even more hilarious to be back. Fraternity Serenades every few nights sent us shrieking to our windows to pay homage to the great Beloit tradition of romance . . . i.e., another pin hanging. 25

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JONES, BETTY-JANE KAHN, BARBARA KEARNS, PATRICIA KLUGER, SHIRLEY Delta Gamma Delta Delta Delta Pi Beta Phi Pi Beta Phi Government Sociology Geology Biology Shorewood, Wisconsin Evanston, Illinois Beloit, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois KOHLER, ELIZABETH LEWIS, EVELYN MATHER, CAROL JEAN MAY, HELEN Delta Gamma Kappa Delta Delta Delta Delta Biology Sociology English History Chicago, Illinois Jamesville, Wisconsin Cherry, Illinois Larehmont, New York our members to Uncle Sam. In early morning eontingents of ten or twenty, the men twe called them boys them of our Class and of the upper Classes, left the campus. We kissed them goodbye and wondered whether theytd be back by next year. Meanwhile we listened to vesper and chapel speakers tell us of our responsibility in this war. But what did it matter when we probably wouldn,t be able to have a decent Chapin formal anyway? But we did have a decent Chapin formal after all. The 95th College Training detachment moved into the empty Haven and North dorm, thus beginning the synchronization of army life with Beloit life. Every afternoon at 5 p. m. the college green became the scene of an oHieial army air corps retreat ceremony. These three hundred men in the United States Army Air corps studied in our classrooms, ate in the erstwhile men$s commons and came, some seventy-five of them; to our Chapin formal. They talked of Hying, of ccwashing out? and every once in a while had a word or two to say about the war. After one squadron, as they were Classified, had been here a few months its members moved on for basic training at Santa Ana, California. It was dimeult to dis- cover what might have been permanent about Beloit that year. In May we went home unsete tled youngsters, not quite knowing what to make of this war. 27