Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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plicated the schedule for a while, hut il worked out musteriouslu to give more noun for worn. Jhere were fewer week-ends awau from School and more stress on activi- ties in school. i Je t, fu n da menta 11 u, knew and loved, did not change, operation, and love was still id rain and shine, ivere snow ant jrarmville, the armville i J rer spirit of friendliness, c there. ind, as alwaus, tht leaves turning in the fall, are In the Red Cross bandage room, Edith San- ford, Carol Brannon, and Mildred Willson join with the many girls who, wearing cotton dresses and kerchiefs, roll bandages for the American Red Cross. Margaret Kitchin, doing her practice teaching in the Farmville Elementary School, guides the activities of her pupils in the kindergarten. grass in llie Spring, earlii morning classes, cramming for exams, color rallies. sMnd through it all we did not forget our primaru purpose — that we should in all waits prepare ourselves to educate the on- coming generations that the vmcrican ii ' au of life should not perish from our land.

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Qur Times and Our Duty • • y, I armville, we re tli adze that th id urning these pages and reviewing another uear of our lire at is was n ot an ordinary uear. Something about 1942-43 made it different, and that Something was the war. though on tn e Sur- face life Seemed much th different, rt was alive — alii ties, with increased interest i idemic work. . . same, we knew it was vitally with uniforms, with war activi- world affairs, with renewed vigor in academic wort?. . . . (classes, bull Sessions, simple aood times went on, but more and more activitu turned toward the war effort. Jhere were IAS LJ dances at the Airmoru and at l amp f ickett, entertaining at the Servicemen ' s L enter, rolling bandages for the ed L roSS, jrirst Arid classes, war stamp and bond drives, exhibits, discussions. { Wartime, as opposed to sun time, com-

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W e Salute A.M Americans, Whether in Uniform or T ot, . . . Serving our country now at war. estovers or freedom, all of uou nave qiven much; dome of uou kaue already qiven uour lives. dSefore December 7. 94 , you were livinq amonq trie thinqs uou called securitu and comfort. £5ut then uou Suddenly realized that many comforts, even many freedoms, must be laid aside at least lona enouqh to overcome the power ana qreea teo, and greed isaqree- ardizinq them. Jhat the job would be qiqantic and di able uou were Sure, but uou kept before uou the objective of the j our freedoms and remembered the - resident s words, J Je will not stop short of these objectives . . . oLet no man Say it cannot be done. Jrt must be done and we have undertaken to do it. ' i Jes, Mmerica, uou have undertaken a task: Ujou work, you fiqht, uou die, that Armerica may live. Jo our flaq and AXXjkXjCNJvS ooOoO to uou we pay tribute