Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Table of Contents CHAPTER PAGE I Review of the Years: july, 1943-July, 1946 . , II Administration and Faculty . , III Classes . , IV Training Units , V Sports . VI Activities . . . VII Graduation Week, june, 1946 ...... Appendix: Campus Life, Student Enrollment, Sports Records 11 '21 49 77 117 173 214 221 Left: the beautiful Gideon F. Egner Memorial Chapel on the Muhlenberg Campus. f9I

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Chapter 1 REVIEW OF THE YEARS July, 1943-July, 1946 MERGING from the years of war, Muhlenberg College and those who were associated with it as students or as alumni, as Faculty or as administrators well may thrill with satisfaction at the honors it earned and the prestige it gained as it helped train men qualified to achieve victory and prepared to maintain peace. One of the first colleges in America to be selected as a training center for the men urgently needed to plug the gaps in the nation's battle lines at sea and in the air, it not only completed its military assignments with distinction, but also continued to meet its obligations to those students able to continue their education as civilians and to thecommunity that looked to it for leadership in the field of Adult Education. Through the years it operated its accelerated war-time program that divided the academic year into three terms of sixteen weeks each, Muhlenberg's student body ranged from a low of 265 men to a peak of 726. Except for two terms, the men in uniform far outnumbered those in mufti. The years of war were years of change but the changes were only in externals. The campus became accustomed to bugle calls, to men in uniform marching to classes and drilling on the playing field, to military reviews and inspections. Friend- ships were formed more quickly, for students counted their stay on the campus in months rather than years. There were new faces on the Faculty and new person- alities on the staff. There were new rules and a new jargon. Underneath, however, Muhlenberg was still Muhlenberg. Its campus remained friendly and democratic. Its academic program continued thorough and basic, emphasizing those subjects at the heart of the liberal arts curriculum that has always been its pride. Its Faculty, centered about those who for years were part of the College's life, manifested the same interest in each individual student that long has been recognized as one of Muhlenbergls outstanding characteristics. The College reiterated for military and civilian students alike its oft-repeated ideal that no education is complete unless it prepares a man to discharge all of his duties properly in this world and qualities him for the rewards and employments of eternity. Echoes of the Bicentennial celebration in which the College honored the family of Colonial American patriots whose name it bears were still ringing across the campus when the first pages of a new chapter in its history were being written. Preparing for its new student body in which men in uniform would far out- number civilians, an augmented College staff converted East Hall and West Hall Left: The spacious College Library, located in the midst of the Big Three-The Ad Build- ing, the Library, and the Science Building. E111