Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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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

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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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Beloit. We listened with amazement, almost with distrust at firstj but finally we, too, saw in the not tOO distant future the Beloit Dr. Croneis talked about. Socially we had a great deal of fun, because serious as our times were, we had not yet for- gotten how to laugh at each other and at ourselves. But what of the other college life? Why L talk about it? Funny thing . . . how life goes on without it. This year, too, besides our numerous campus activities, we groped slightly toward the intellectual. Emerson, Plato, Machiavelli, Browning ewe were very much in the realm of theory, though the actual often pushed its way into the whole panorama of philosophy and of life. And then V-E Day carne. We were up early that morning, huddled about the radios in our smokers, listening so hard, and not quite understanding that half the war was over. Holding no Classes that day, we assembled in the chapel for a quiet and solemn service. What was there in the world for us now? V-J Day came during the summer. We returned for our senior year with the war over. Women, still holding the responsible positions on campus, felt uneasy governing a crop of serious-minded vet- erans who had not elected them. In the underclasses were many of our own Classmates, a few of whom sported the numerals of ,46. From a campus with thirty men we have grown again to a campus with almost three hundred men. It is not only the veterans who face adjustment prob- lems, but it is also we other ttpoor souls,, who,ve been here all along. Three hundred men! Most of us had forgotten there were that many in the world! In our collegiate lifetime then we have come through a warea war that has deeply affected or changed completely the lives and philosophies of every one of us. We have in this collegiate life- time entered a normal prewar school, fully expecting a normal prewar school life; of classes stocked tcollegeh impliede c by men as well as women; parties, dances and everything else that the word and wasebefore December 73 1941. Yes, and we lived that sort of life for a month or two. And then we saw the warewe saw our itnormall, college life marked. by merely an intense school patriot- lsrn, almost dissolve into the intense national patriotism that only a war can bring about. Through T ' DZEZEg5?5 D1311: . .. THOPMAS, MARTHA THORMAHLEN, CAROL TZIOLAS MARINA Sociology .- V 1 Beta Ph1 Delta Delta Delta Indenendent ,. . rSOCIOlOgy Sociology Spanish Wilmette, Illinois Hinsdale, Illinois Chicago, Illinois Beloit, Wisconsin