Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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hot water heaters, springs, bikes, pipes and what-not were piled along- side Marquette hall. Barrels were placed in the quadrangle with signs saying: Put scrap here. Other places on the campus had signs telling students reserved for War Department. Army jeeps were an everyday sight. The university adopted a trimester plan to step up graduation so students could graduate in the fall, spring and summer. In addi- tion, Loyola men had to take one of the many pre-induction courses a semester. They included first aid, poisonous gases, explosives, de- contaminants, radio servicing and operating and radio communi- cation. Other courses offered were photography, propaganda and censorship, war time legislation, camp and chart interpretation. All lower division males were required to take physical education. A special obstacle course was constructed on campus. The accelerated wartime program lasted from the graduation of the class of 1942 until the end of the war. Long and formal com- mencements were done away with. Stars and government dignitaries, touring the country to help the war effort, did not miss Loyola. Screen star, Merle Oberon donned a Red Cross uniform to receive proceeds from Loyola ' s Red Cross drive. Celebrities. Ginny Simms and Melvin Douglas, visited the campus. Civilian pilot training was done at Loyola. The Navy used the school as a primary school for its future pilots. Loyola saluted the Navy in 1943 with these words, Plaving host to these fighting men has been an honor for Loyola and we are anxiously watching their progress as they fly on to victory. Each organization actively contributed to the war effort. Blue Key sold war stamps and bonds every day on campus and occasionally at social functions. Beta Epsilon Upsilon, national honorary medical technology soci- ety assisted Blue Key in a drive in the spring of 1942 to type the blood of every student on campus. Phi Beta national woman ' s hon- orary professional fraternity sponsored social programs for service men. Lambda Sigma Lambda, service sorority, founded in the midst of the war years, spring 1941, lived up to its pledge of steady service and carried on Red Cross campaigns. Lambda Nu Chi, night school club for women, sponsored several dances for men in the armed forces un- der the auspices of the National Catholic Community Service. The fraternities did their part in the scrap metal drives and other • '

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of every school year, Talent Nite, which made its entrance in 1938. FRIVOLITY NOTED £ he thirties had carried on much of the fri- volity of its notorious preceding decade through hard years of economic hardships and Loyola looked forward to many more years of serious study amid an atmosphere of carefree and light- hearted gaiety. But dark clouds gathering over Europe were soon to cast their deadly shadows on the United States, resulting in World War II. This war was prophesied at Loyola as early as 1927 when a U.S. Marine Corps Captain, Richard A. Day said, There is bound to be another war, and as much as I abhor the idea I cannot but make the prediction. Perhaps I will not be here to see it, but it is coming and the only possible way that peace will ever be maintained is through the chem- ists who will make the plans of battle so revolting that man ' s nature will cry out for peace . . . In 1942 Loyola took on the sober responsibilities of participating in the war effort. That year ' s Wolf declared: Loyola University of the South, under the Banner of Christ and the vivifying principle of American Democracy marches onward for an allied victory and greater progress. Though students continuously came and went, those who had to re- main were reminded: Your Catholic education is fitting you for the Christian leadership which will inspire the spiritual forces of all nations to blast away the pagan principles of living that have plunged the world into moral and civic chaos. And there were many that came and went and never returned. In 1943 the yearbook was dedicated to those that had fought for the be- lief that greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Not only were the students changed in shouldering their new re- sponsibility, but even the physical aspects of the campus took on a new look. Old Glory valiantly flew from atop Thomas hall. Loyola set up a voluntary basic training corps originated by two students, Pat O ' Connell and Ed Levy. New courses were instituted in con- nection with the Army and Navy. All male students who had not had previous training in algebra and trigonometry were compelled to take these courses. Scrap metal drives were held and conglomerations of rubber tires,

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projects, but their biggest sacrifice was the loss of many brothers who left to serve their country and some of whom died for that country. The dental school received a citation after the war for its official training that it provided for the Army and Navy. Loyola ' s famous cultural project, the Loyola Forum, is a result of the war. Aided by the potent influence of the Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel, S.T.D., archbishop of New Orleans, the Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., succeeded in bringing history-making figures to the campus to lecture. The first speaker was the Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S.J., interna- tionally known as the Glacier Priest, who was civilian adviser to the Western Defense Command during World War II. He spoke in 1942. The Forum has had such guest speakers as Francis Cardinal Spellman; the Hon. Heinrieh Bruening, chancellor of Germany be- fore Hitler ' s regime; Clare Booth Luce, famous orator, journalist, playwright and former Congresswoman of Connecticut; Fulton Our- sler, author of such best-sellers as The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Greatest Book Ever Written, and Pat O ' Brien, prominent Hollywood actor. During and after the war a number of organizations associated with sciences were formed. They included the Amateur Radio Club, Sept. 15, 1942; Alpha Delta chapter of Rho Chi national honor phar- maceutical society, July 15, 1942; Loyola chapter, American Chemi- cal Society, Aug. 29, 1942; Agramonte Pre-Medical Society, 1941; Nu chapter, Kappa Epsilon national pharmacy society, Nov. 19, 1942; Edward A. Gamard Pre-Dental Society, 1946; Michelson phy- sics society, 1942, and the Junior American Dental Association, 11, 1945. Language Clubs, such as the Deutscher Verein ( German Club), Sept., 1944; and Le Cercle Francais, 1940, were also founded. Throughout the war years Loyola was guided by one man, the Very Rev. Percy A. Roy, S. J., 1939-1945. Loyola ' s chapter of the war closed in 1948 when the first yearbook since the war was printed. Its dedication was: In Memory of the Loyola men who died in WW II Their youth, their life These men did give; That you, Loyola ' s son Might learn to live. 30