Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT May 1, 1943 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1944 Since Muhlenberg was founded nearly a hundred years ago no class has entered her halls under more uncertain conditions than your own. You enrolled as Freshmen when the world seethed and boiled. The continent of Europe was in a mad ferment. England was experiencing the horror of brutal aerial bombardment of which earlier practice in Spain and China had been warnings. Political turmoil on all continents was unbelievably chaotic. Economic confusion was siirply beyond com- prehension. Moral and spiritual disintegration had set in all over the world. America rocked and reeled in the midst of a bitter pre-electicn canvass. Seemingly this country was hopelessly divided into warring camps and torn by opposing beliefs. It took a particular brand of courage, facing this scene, to go to college . It is relatively easy, when clear skies stretch from horizon to horizon, to map out a training career which gives promise of personal satisfaction and that degree of contentment we have come to believe is the heritage of every young American. But it is another matter boldly to ignore the collapse of a world that has crumbled, and to face the demands of an uncertain future--a future in which economic security, physical well-being, moral debasement, spiritual torture and life itself are the hazards. It will be to your credit eternally that none of these considerations deterred you from your path. You came here. Since then the cauldron of Europe spilled over to other continents. Our own America became involved actively when this bestial disease erupted in our own area of the Pacific. The whole country has been in a fever ever since Japan showed her teeth at Pearl Harbor. Now, some of your number are not here. Your class is already representing this College in all parts of the world. Already you have made a record which is by no means complete, nor will it be fully written by Commencement, 1944. It seems to me that the composite re cord of ycur Class might be and could be the most notable of any of Muhlenberg ' s sons. Starting as you did, in the center of this modern crisis, living through the variable sensations of gloom and elation, as the progress of the United Nations cause has advanced or retro- graded, trying as intelligently as you could to make up your minds what you should do even in the welter of confusion that always is the concomitant of war--well , I want to congratulate every single one of you, whether you are still here at College, in some training post, or on some far-flung battle line, for your sane and con- scientious approach to the biggest crisis you ' ll face in your entire lives. The College is proud of you. We invoke God ' s blessing upon you and His protection over you for the balance of your careers, in this war, and in the peace to come--throughout your entire lives. Sincerely yours, [ Presi Twenty-one dent 43 M

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A.M., LITT.D., LL.D. President Born at Reading, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1889. Prepared at Reading High School, 1906; A.B. Gettysburg College, 1910; A.M. Columbia University, 1911; Graduate Work, Columbia University, 1910-1914; Litt.D. Gettysburg College, 1930; LL.D. Lehigh University, 1937; LL.D. Franklin and Marshall College, 1939. Author of the following books: Education Tunes In, What To Read About Radio, Where Is American Radio Heading? Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa. Twenty M 19

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Our congenial friend. PH.D., LITT.D. Dean Born at Charlestown, South Carolina, September 12, 1881. Prepared at Charlestown High School, 1896; A.B. Muhlenberg College, 1900; Graduate Work, Johns Hopkins University, 1901; A.M. Muhlenberg College, 1903; A.M., Harvard University, 1904; Graduate Work, Harvard University, 1907, 1908, 1919; Litt.D., Muhlenberg College, 1922; Graduate Work, Columbia University, 1923; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1925-26. Member of the Committee on Instructions; Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid. Author of the follov ring books: Followers of the Way, The Use of the Subjunctive and Optative in the Non-Literary Papyri. Omicron Delta Kappa, Eta Sigma Phi, Alpha Tau Omega. Twenty-two M 19