Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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Came our sophomore year and we began to take the events of the world in our stride. The morning mail delivery high-pointed the day for us, while the week culminated in our Saturday night movies with the girls. Most of us women lived at Emerson with the overflow in Stowell and Pratt tthe ones whold drawn low numbers at the room-drawingsl. The civilian meneall thirty of themwlived in the Sigma Chi house, while the CTDs continued to maintain quarters in the Haven and North dorm. There were fewer of the CTD boys now, and they stayed only five or six weeks. Perhaps it was only the sophomore slump, but we never got to know them very well. On the whole it was a quiet year for us. A Mardi Gras and a Foolish Follies spelled big-tirne entertainment for us. Our faculty members opened their homes to us, trying to make it easier for those who had been left behind. We studied some, and after a while achieved some eHieiency about our work. We still laughed a lot, of course, and played a great deal, but we were beginning to wonder what it was all about. We were between the new Beloit and the old Beloit, and knew not whether to join with the juniors and seniors and live a life in at past we had only touched upon as kids tCould that have just been last year?l ; or whether to look to a future in which we would have a part. As it was, we did neither. We waited. We waited and lived in a present that was MILLER, NANCY NEWMAN, MARY MAYNE; SHIRLEY Delta Gamma Psychology Lockport, Illinois NIELAND, CAROL Delta Delta Delta Biology Chicago, Illinois MEEHAN, NATALIE Spanish Be101t, W1sconsin OAKES, DAVID Sigma Alpha Epsilon English Chicago, Illinois Kappa Delta English Chicago, Illinois O,CONNOR, MARTHA Pi Beta Phi Sociology Beloit, Wisconsin Delta Gamma Sociology Aurora, Illinois OETTING, MELODY Kappa Delta Sociology Riverside, Illinois

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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

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ORR, JEANNE PROUTY, CAROLYN REIMAN, MARIAN RUSSELL, MARY Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Gamma Pi Beta Phi Sociology Chemistry i German Sociology Oak Park, Illinois Lime Ridge, Wisconsin Louisville, Kentucky Kewanee, Illinois SAMP, EVELYN SANDY, LOIS SCHMELZLE, LORRAINE STEGMAN, RUTH Independent Delta Gamma Kappa Delta Delta Delta Delta Chemistry English Chemistry English Clinton, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois Chicago, Illinois Portage, Wisconsin demanding and interesting, if not exciting. This was not ascollege should be-as the catalogues told us it would be. But we had learned-we had to learnethat there was no point in talking of what might have been. We were faced with ciwhat is? Our junior year the war went ceaselessly on. Living, most of them, at Beta and Eaton houses, women took up responsible positions in student government, worked hard at the tasks before them, and wonderedewondered if ever before Beloiters had so cared about what was going on in the world. We no longer conceived of the end of the war. This same school year that saw Franklin Roosevelt elected president of the United States for the fourth time saw also his deeply mourned death. These were tremendous, if frightening, times in which we were living. It was still an had interim,, period at Beloit. But the genesis of a new Beloit was evolving. Carey Croneis, a young and capable administrator, had come from the University of Chicago to become our president. With him he brought great ideas and youthful plans for a bigger and better 29 kqez-gomzwnmg. - -.-...-.i--i-.i1......5 f