Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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hWTUIA ' .W rKIca»ri K n3;| n»9 SK p(»efEffi JXtfCtfr UAa9iS« ?«!J DR. ARNAUD C. MARTS at home. Through his work as President from 1935 to 1945, Bucknell is able to start her second century free from debt. WATERS swirled high around L.irison Hall in the flood of 193 6. PRESIDENT MARTS laying the cornerstone ot Davis Gym. Through such projects as this and the erection of the Engineering Building Bucknell expanded greatly in this decade. UNDER THREE FLAGS, the Christian, American and Bucknell banners — a symbol of the Bucknell Way of Life. THE CLASS of ' 46 at their first Homecoming Day, 1942. THE MARINES HAVE LANDED, 1943— officers and men conferring with President Marts and Commander Fleming. THE CHRISTENING of the S. S. Bucknell Victory on the West Coast recognized Bucknell ' s wartime contribu- tions. BUCKNELL ' S V-I2 Unit— lasted uniil February, 1946. -SSsS M% ' .,; ' ' -

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MEMORIAL STADIUM plays host to Lafayette in 1924 in the first game every played there. OLD MAIN, the heart of Bucknell, before and after the disastrous fire of 1934. the campus which has made the Bucknell hello a tradition as strongly enduring as the brick buildings. (lrtTP mS0XTB the currents of thought and feeling and internal development of the University was the evergrowing conflict outside the United States, but when war struck, the campus was mentally and physically prepared for the catas- trophe. Fraternity houses stood empty and silent as Bucknell men for the fourth time in one hundred years went off to war. Sad farewells . . . fewer coed activities . . . members of the Sem in- tent on the problems of a traction splint canning at the Evangelical hospital . . . and in July 1943 the bellbottoms and leathernecks marching into the buildings of the men ' s quadrangle and the lives of the lonely Sem inhabitants. y 1943 Bucknell had contributed not only its men and its facilities for the V-12 program, but also its president, for Dr. Marts had become a captain in the Coast Guard, and announced his resignation effec- tive June 1945. Jl 3 year 1945 brought with it the greatest of all gifts — peace. President Spencer, inaugurated in June 1945, began facing the problems of academic reconversion. The V-12 unit was disbanded in June 1945 and the V-5 ' s left on February 28, 1946, while veterans in ever increasing numbers began flocking back to the Bucknell campus to continue the educa- tion which they had interrupted to serve their coun- try. Formal dances, spring vacation, tweeds, and serenades are all signs of the reconversion to peace, but under this carefree veneer is a sober and mature realization by administration, faculty, and students of the tremendous problems of rebuilding a broken world. tWM. ' C President Spencer ' s inauguration, former President Marts said, When I shall hand the seal of Bucknell over to President Spencer, it will be with great trust in him, and with great assurance for Buck- nell ' s future. Dr. Herbert Spencer is fulfilling that trust by continuing the Bucknell tradition of a sound liberal education. Our university is on the threshold of its second century of constructive existence, fac- ing with the rest of the world, a new age — a new era of peace and development. CLARK HINKLE, leading scorer in the East, 1929. CARL G. SNAVELY, BuckneU ' s famous football coach, 1927-1934. DR. HOMER P. RAINEY who, at the age of 36, was one of the youngest University Presidents in the country — 1931-1935. M i

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IRVING BERLIN plays for students at Chapel prior to receiving an honorary degree from the University, 1940. PHI BETA KAPPA Installation at Bucknell, 1940 — Ray Underwood, first undergraduate to be initiated into this scholastic honorary. CO-EDS on the Home Front — Nurse ' s Aides help out in the Men ' s Infirmary. COMMENCEMENT 1945 — Herbert L. Spencer is inaugurated to succeed Arnaud C. Marts as President of Bucknell University, and the second century of Bucknell .s M.irU ' J. FRESHMAN members of the Centennial Class enact the scene that is to take place four years later at the burning of the mortgage. Summer, 1945. The Unit numbered six hundred men at this time and i » «•.; ' » • Bj