Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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IBFIARY MID CONTINENT PUBLIC LIBRARY MID-CONTIFIENT PUBLIC L Genealogy 81 Local History Branch fflewfffvs IIIllllllllllllllllllllllt 8 .ibckcafion We dedicate-and yet hesitate because of the inadequacy-this year's Ragout to every returned veteran on our campus, Who, by his very presence here shows courage and determination to iinish that which he once started, or, perhaps to begin what should have been completed by this time. We salute their courage in active Warfare-for most of them have seen over-seas duty-and their patience and good-natured humor at monotonous, boring, and even trying G. I. situations either at home or abroad. In another year, perhaps, they will be the Tom, Dick, and Harry's of the campus-but this year, at least, we like to reserve the right to an occasional Word of praise. And to the veterans We can say: We are glad to have you back, We are glad to have your ideasg We are glad you are a part of Central.

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0l 8 WUI' 1946-a year that crackles with intensity on every side! We begin an era of what we hope will be peace, we graduate a class into a world full of opportunity and challenge, we are forced to face problems of rehabilitation, not only of returned fighting men, but of ourselves, we find, suddenly, that the coming of peace has not ended our problems--rather, forced us' to face new ones. - 1946 brings us promise-wof normal living, cars, gasoline, civilian students, football, refrigerators, butter, unrationed shoes and, eventually, sugar. We sigh a great sigh of relief, we feel free again, we have no more worries, we tell ourselves confidently. We work, we play, we are serious at times, we are foolish at times, we ,laugh and we cry, we gripe and we gloat, because we are humanhbecause we love life. We hope maybe we have caught you when you were unaware of us-maybe in a photograph, maybe in a write-up, for we probably caught the real you, then, Perhaps it was a carefree moment, perhaps it was a sober moment, but it was you, nevertheless. 1946-another year at Central has passed. Whatever it has been, we have tried to portray it to you, not without a note of seriousness, but trying not to lose sight of the flippant something which makes college what it is. 1946-even as this book goes to press, the world awaits tensely the out- come of meetings and decisions which will influence the lives of those who form a part of the same. And we are a part of this world. Page 6