Carroll College - Hilltopper Yearbook (Helena, MT)

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With the entrance of the United States in World War 11, Carroll served as a camp and a college. Men attended college and were trained for the Army and Naval Air Corps. During the war Carroll trained 127 civilian pilots, 38 army pilots, and 530 Navy V-5 pilots. In 1943 Carroll also was used for the Navy's V-12 program, training 204 trainees. Serving in this capacity, however, Carroll did not neglect to educate young men in die liberal arts. 1945 saw World War II end and Carroll returned to her aim as a place of higher education. The enrollment Jumped as many thousands of veterans returned to continue their war interrupted schooling. Many of these men were married and to house them, Carroll used government barracks from the war years, the whole complex being dubbed Carroll Village. The latter 1940s found Carroll expanding her academic programs. In 1946, she started a nursing program and a department of business administration. In 1949 the first medical technology students were accepted. Capping Carroll's great surge was the approval of her membership in the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. The forties brought many things to Carroll in a troubled decade, the most important being girls. 27

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1940s—SWABBIES AND SUCCESS May 23, 1943 Baccalaureate Mass. Seniors present the flag for the following year to be blessed and the incoming freshmen would assume the responsibilities for raising it. 26

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THE 50s—EXPANSION The 1950s showed significant increase in women students. To meet the increase Carroll purchased the Holter home, renamed it Siena Hall and it served as the women's dormitory. The fifties also witnessed the building of the science building, Borromeo Hall, and the Old Wing of Guadalupe Hall. Borromeo was originally intended to house the pre-bucks, (pre-theology seminarians,) but later its rooms were opened to all men as seminary enrollment declined. The construction of Guadalupe Hall allowed women to live on campus and this added a very important dimension to campus life. Along with the building, a beautification program was also conducted, grass and trees being added. As Carroll stepped forward into the sixties and her second fifty years she had come far since her days of a one building institution. 28