Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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' - 16 other long hard year ahead. This was 1945 ah-eady and the Class ot 1946 was getting ready to gradtiate. Seems confusing, but accelerating, or whatever they call it, changed a lot of things. Everything seemed even more confusing when you took a look at the graduating class — down from 600 to a bare 27. The fall semester was brought to a pleasant close by the Interfraternity Ball weekend. Officially, a not so pleasant examination schedule marked its end. Nine men graduated and another 121, the last of the ASTP contingent, moved out. Fifty new men entered in February, many returning veterans being among that number. University enrollment was stabilizing itself at about 300. All or- ganizations and honoraries were still active, and over a dozen fraternities were still open and rushing. More than anything else, February ' 44 would probably be remembered for its cold. Putting a finishing touch on a winter, which had already convinced all freshmen that Bethlehem was the place not to be this time of year, this shortest month was probably the one of greatest activity. Besides exams, graduation, registration (the tickets are still a yard long), and Valentine ' s Day there were things like shovelling snow and sanding sidewalks to take up any slack time. The bitter cold was almost more than anyone could take; in fact, the boiler over at the SPE house wouldn ' t take it with the result that it simply blew its top. The name Lehigh came into the news on two occasions during the year. The first came when it was revealed that the tallest mountain on Pindoro Island in the Philippines was named in honor of the University. For the benefit of you Lehigh men vho may someday, through the courtesy of the Army or otherwise, be in the vicinity, you land on Pindoro Isle, follow the Bugsanga river until you hit the Centuroy valley, and then look for the tallest mount of the range em- bracing this alley. They claim it to be even more impressive than South Mountain! The other occasion on which the name Lehigh hit the headlines was in the christening of the victory ship S. S. Lehigh in honor of the college ' s continually fine educational service for the past 80 years. The baseball team appeared to be heading for a banner season; in its first two games it had stopped Villanova and Drew. Lefty Wilson, pitching his third brilliant season, was once again the mainstay of the team. Well, Spring was here, mid-semester reports were in, and the magnolia trees on campus were a month early with their blossoms. However, the cheeriest note of all came with the announcement that 200 men were expected to enter for the summer semester, the largest number since September, 1942. For Lehigh this may be a harbinger of a slow, but steady, return to full enrollment.

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SENIORS Most of the Class of ' 45 that should have been gradu- ated at this time when we say farewell to Lehigh are scattered around the globe. Few of us envisioned with what speed and mandatory fate our lives would become so different. In fact, many of us are moving out in ' 45 though our class heritage should have been different. So it will be with many of the classes to come: they, too, will be subject to a riddling service call. Somehow we hope that the clinging hats to that terrestrial globe will symbolize better days for future Lehigh men, when ac- celeration, draft boards, and with these presents are history, and the great surge of peacetime pursuits in education can be resumed. But for all of us the world has become smaller, so the HATS of ' 46, ' 47, ' 48, and those to come will have less space to cover, but more to think about.