Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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We labored in settlement houses and ambitiously strug- gled through those first reports and term papers. In between times the more energetic of us hiked the two blocks to Pine Wheel for lunch and cokes — the rest settled in the nearest drug store. Since the social calen- dar was quite filled that year, our only venture was a Freshman Fling at the Shoreland Hotel. Exams, vaca- tions, basketball season, and the spring prom came and went. Then all of a sudden, we were sophomores! 1941, our sophomore year, brought many changes. After that fateful December 7th the first of our boys left to enlist in the armed forces. There were adjust- ments to be made, more mental than physical, for the school as a whole remained the same. The pace at our college was stepped up. Life took on a deeper m4 Kathleen Jessee Lois Jacobson Jeanne Hollowed g Agnes Houlihan LoiToine Hill Mary Henaqhan BeinJce Kopping Eleanor Koelle Adelyne Kocimski Violet Knecht Muriel Klein Marie Kinney 17

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id fie. A country at peace, a multitude of men and a care- free campus life set the scene for our entrance into CTC in the now distant days of September, 1940. Fresh from the sheltering walls of our respective high schools, we found this new freedom was quite breath- taking, and it took many weeks to replace our be- wilderment with a collegiate nonchalance. An autumn dunes trip marked the first deep plunge into new friendships and we emerged, little the worse for wear, our verdant hue considerably dimmed. The entire city was our test tube as we toured Chicago from Gold Coast to slums on our weekly field trips, neglect- ing no part of the city at no time of the day or night. Who could ever forget the South Water Market at 5:00 a.m. or the stockyards at 10 degrees below zero? Margaref Dougher(y flose Dieebin Hita Elliott i June Engstrom ' § Margaret Fairbairn Anne Fardy I Genevieve Johnson K f Jeanne Johnson Rava Just Dorothy Kelly Dove Kesselman 16 Elaine Kietzer

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i4 HJ significance, and under the gaiety and hub-bub of school affairs there were much deeper undercurrents. An innovation in the curriculum allowed uS to choose our major subjects in the second instead of in the third year as previously. We began then to explore the various fields of knowledge. Lighter moments were spent at a mid-winter tea dance at the Graemere and our Sophomore Cotillion at the Knickerbocker when some of the first of our boys to enlist returned in uniform. Junior year became even less the social whirl with our days more crowded, our nights less exciting. Be- fore donning the dignity of practice students though, the class gathered for a gala dinner. We didn ' t spon- sor the usual dance, but instead many of our members flita O ' Grady Patricia O ' Leaiy Eunice Olson Mary O ' Malley 18 Margie Page Leona Palka