Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Once in a lifetime. right that they should. Then we began to look forward to associations every year-Homecoming, the Junior Prom, the basketball season, a Stegner recital, a visiting lecturer or an artist series concert, And before long we were saying good-by to our friends in last year's Senior class. Our anticipations are a blending of delight and dread, a delight in the chance to measure our worth, and dread in entering into a world at war. Our lesson now is not a course in Chaucer, but a lesson in our responsibility to society. The equipment is in our hands. We may toy with it carelessly or make it work tor us constructively. We may belong to the past when we think back on that hot week in September, but in reality we belong to the present and the unpredictable tu- ture. We are citizens ot these two worlds, the one in which we tind ourselves, and the other in which we shall build. SENIOR LASS -194 FIRST ROW lleft to rightlz LOIS AKERSTROM, Detroit, Michigan, B.S. Bus., MADO- LIN ALEXANDER, Miamis- burg, AB., VIRGIL ALSTON, Oxford, B.F.A., FLORENCE BABINGTON ANDREWS, Middletown, B.S. Ed. SECOND ROW: BEATRICE ANGLEMAN, Girard, B.S. Ed., JUNE ANTLE, Spring tield, Illinois, AB., JACK APPLEGATE, Sebring, B.S. Bus., JAMES APPLETON, Hamilton, AB. THIRD ROW: LOUIS AP- WISCH, Hamilton, B.S. Ed., JEAN ARMENTROUT, Harri- son, B.S. Ed., RAY ARM- STRONG, Fort Thomas, Ken- tucky, A.B., KENNETH ARN, Dayton, A.B.

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SE NIOR CLASS 1943 Crightj This is only the beginning. Cbelowl Ai the crossroads. Class ot '43, do you remember that hot week in September four years ago-the Freshman tests, the campus tours, the arrow sign posts, the teas, the assemblies and the hands tull of Miami literature withering in your tense palms? Of course you do. And you remember more than that. You remember the Red Cap Review and those corny songs 5. 'fc we sang, the three piece bands that accompanied the am- bitious electioneers, the spreads when your laundry case came back, the sounds of voices in the corridors, the ans- wering whistle from across campus, and the first serenade. We haven't stopped to think about them much lately. We haven't had to. They've become a part of us, and it's

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FIRST ROW Cleft to rightlz THOMAS ASHTON, Youngs- town, B.S. Bus., DOROTHY AUBERGER, Eost Liverpool, A.B., RUSSEL AUKERMAN, Bethesdo, B.S. Ed., RICHARD AXEN, Berwyn, Illinois, A.B. SECOND ROW: BERNADINE BAHEN, Steubenville, B.S. Bus., BETTY E. BALL, Akron, B.S. Ed., HELEN BALLARD, West Middletown, A.B., JOAN BALLINGER, Green- ville, B.S. Ed. THIRD ROW: HELEN BARE- MORE, Akron, B.S. Ed., JAMES BARNTHOUSE, Hom- ilton, B.S. Bus., CLAYTON BARTEL, Richmond, lndiono, B.S. Bus., DOROTHY BAXTER, Delphos, B.S. Ed. FOURTH ROW: HELEN BAX- TER, Seven Mile, B.S. Ed., BETTY BAYLEY, Ddyton, B.F.A., ELLEN BECKER, Hom- ilton, A.B., RICHARD BELL, Columbus, A.B. FIRST ROW lleft to rightl: MARY BENDER, Boyonne, New Jersey, B.S. Ed., GERALD BENNETT, West- tield, New York, B.S. Ed., RACHEL BENNETT, Spring- field, A.B., DOUGLAS BIRCH, Elyrio, B.S. Bus. SECOND ROW: JEAN BI- SHOP, Lokewood, B.S. Ed., ROBERT BLAYNEY, Elyricl, A.B., MARY MARGARET BLYTHE, Corrollton, B.F.A., JANET BOLENDER, Hilliclrds, B.S. Ed.