Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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lege into two year or two semesters or two months. As the University scholastic average dropped our enthusiasm for football and house parties, fraternities and activities and, of course, for Joe ' s and the Chor grew in intensity until the whole bubble broke with the calling to arms of the E. R. C, the air corps reserve, the advanced ROTC and with the recall of deferments for engineers. While we were here we had provided the backbone for the successful 1942 football team with Freddy Attaway, Dick Jorgenson, Harry Arant, Vince Moravec and the Schoener boys. Quin Raney had led Lehigh to the 1942 Eastern Penn- sylvania Intercollegiate Hockey championship. Fred Christ, Bob DeLong and Frank Winter had come up from the freshman wrestling team of ' 42 to become potential Lehigh wrestling greats, only to be whisked away by the call to the colors. We had almost caused a riot with our boisterous all night stand in line for houseparty game tickets and with our trek to Easton to paint the Marquis. W e had held the hoses at the Phi Gam and Chi Psi fires. We had danced to Sonny Dunham at our first Engineer ' s Ball in September, ' 41, and we had taken our tails and tux ' s out of permanent storage for those in- numerable last houseparties. But when Harry James and Will Bradley jammed us into Grace Hall in the Spring of ' 43 we knew that Morey La Rue would never again have to bear our wrath for the overabundance of starch in our dress shirts. That was the last time many of us saw each other and Lehigh. In July of ' 43 the A.S.T.P. came in and overran the north side of South Mountain and the civilian enrollment dropped to a new low. Paul Franz, Bill Bloecher, Bob Moore and Lou Domeratsky became Lehigh wartime campus leaders and we sponsored Fritz von Bergen and Pete Greenbaum as editors of the Epitome and the Brown and White. And now all of these men have graduated. Of the original Class of 1945 there are just three undergraduates left. These three have helped to make what is written above the History of the Class of 1945. Our History is not very long; our class didn ' t last very long. October, ' 44, heralded another fall, and another war class at Lehigh. This one was called the Class of 1947, and though it could claim but a hundred men, it marked the renewal of a lot of little things, tinted with the Lehigh we knew before that December clay of a few years, ago. These things that now seemed like innovations at Lehigh never made us lose sight of the great war that was still about us. For the service banner which hung solemnly, but proudly, in the Alumni building was covered with hundreds of stars representing classmates and friends who had left all of this to take on the newer and bigger job of winning a war. There were now sixty-six gold stars to 12 remind us of the price of finishing this job.

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