Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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Always — whenever someone is away from home or those with whom he is familiar — there is one person who soon assumes the character of a friend. That person is the mailman, who day by day brings to us the news from our families and friends. At the first of the year, when it seems so terribly important to hear something from someone, we eagerly await the mailman's ar rival. And all through the year, we keep waiting and watching every morning .... if he's late, there are cries of impatience if he's on time, sighs of satisfaction (or disappointment). . Especially those of us who are in college during war time feel the necessity of the mailman’s visit. Ordinarily “the interest in our lives would be here on the campus too, but those who find this an impossibility, keep an extra-alert for the morning call from the mailman. And wherever we may be in the future, let us not forget that there will always be one connecting link upon which we may depend for a word of greeting from our friends of today and tomorrow m