Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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In the cross-country and instructor,s courses the emphasis was put on night fly- ing, navigation, and radio work. Larger cabin-planes were used. After the outbreak of the war, flying became a much more serious affair in the eyes of the students. For a while they were grounded entirelyg for several months the Galesburg airport was one of three in the state kept open. Once actual flying did start again the students were required to fill-out lengthy forms before being al- lowed into the air. Flying for pleasure was a thing of the past. A new C.P.T. rule banished women from the courses. But despite the new rules and restric- tions, nothing could dampen the enthusi- asm of the participants, who still got a tremendous thrill out of their first solo and first cross-country trip. Qulwze fqdunen. Zlwle Sam MOST Ol 'l'llli lil.Ylfli5 have more hours ol' hangar flying than actual hours in the air. But they get plenty of the lat- ter. loo, .n :hc Kialesliurg Air- port. Under the direction of Mr. Arthur Cfurrey and his Hllllll, the local Ci.l'.'I'. Pl'UIj,l'.llI1 is one of the biggest and hesr in tht state. 'Iihe hangar flyers .it right are I loward Schewe, Kenny Donovan, Burl George lilcin- 0l1Sll'LIIllI1ll, and Pele Nlignin. KNOX STUDENTS IN CIVILIAN PILOT TRAINING 1941-42 FALL sEssxoN Ell'IlI!7l1flll'j' S!'!'07lIlllI'j' George Adams Everett Hargreaves Williai11 Biery XVilliam Kakara john Cadlc Richard Ruth Robert Cadwallader Virgil Logan Robert Parkinson Gene Sackcy Arnold Salzman Lewis Schreeengost XVayne Shroyer SPRING Sussiozv Elflllfllffl ry Charles Baker Otis Corrnan Robert Danforth Kenneth Donovan Henry Dutch Eugene Frankeberger Donald jenkins Robert McCann Keith McGill . Donald McKamy Wari'cn Manley Pete Mignin Harry Ritzheimcr Howard Schewe SPFUIIIIKIVD' Ralph Anderson john Cadlc Charles Eaton Burl George Gene Snckey W aync Shroyer 25

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CHAPTER THREE New and Different Zi Freshmen are the important things at Knox during the Hrst few weeks of each school year. They are enrolled, oriented, rushed, partied, and generally mauled by the administration, faculty, and enterpris- ing Greeks. Mr. Car- Q pe'nter, the dean of freshmen, has even .feafm gone so far as to issue a little booklet en- titled My First Two Weeks at Knox College in which bewil- dered frosh can keep track of themselves. Perhaps the best way to tell the story of what happened to the freshmen during these two weeks is to present extracts from one such booklet which an enterprising frosh used as a diary: Monday, September 15 Today was the day. At eight o'clock all freshmen assembled at Beecher Chapel. Then they reported to their respective ad- visors and were given appointments to meet with them later to enroll for classes. Then President Davidson said something about his family and asked all persons who had not enrolled to do so immediately. We were next given our enrollment cards. One thing they especially wanted to impress on our minds was our name. The card asked us this question ten different times. After we had our pictures taken we went to Lake Storey for the annual freshman picnic. The attraction of the day Coutside of the girlsy was the baseball game between the faculty and freshman boys. The freshmen won- it'll probably be the only time in our col- '7!w Rafael lege careers we'll be able to get to first base with the faculty. In the evening we went to Seymour Hall where the Friars gave us the low-down on the extra-curricular ac- tivities at Knox. I guess a similar affair was held for the girls at Whiting with Mortar Board in charge. Tuesday, September 16 In chapel this morning we took two placement tests-one in English and one an intelligence test. This noon rushing started. Whew! Wednesday, September 17 Another test this morning. And rush- ing is now in full swing. Freshmen can definitely not be hermits. Tonight was the pumphandle where we shook hands with ENROLLMENT AND ORIENTATION at the fresh- men's first meeting of the year in Beecher Chapel was plenty complicated. Assistance from faculty advisers like Mr. Stephens, below, was needed and received. The picnic later in the day was more fun. K w 27