Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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have become part of the Muhlenberg scene. Class lines were practically obliterated and regulations for Freshmen, permitted to enter College at the beginning of each sixteen-week term, were eliminated. Only class scrap to survive the war years was the annual tug-of-war held yearly over Cedar Creek. In place of the Junior Prom and the Senior Ball, normally held once each year, a formal Graduation Ball was held at the end of each term. Student Council sponsored many other informal dances and, at least once each term, Navy men entertained at a dance to which they invited the civilian student body. Bands and drum and bugle corps were organized on several occasions, but their principal function was to play for reviews and inspections of the Navy units. The Chapel Choir had a continuous existence through the war years, although it made only a few appearances away from the campus. It was a matter of considerable satisfaction both to those remaining on the campus and to Muhlenberg men in all corners of the world that before each Christmas holiday the College community gathered about the large spruce tree on the front campus to sing carols and hear a brief greeting from President Tyson. During the years when restrictions made it impossible to illuminate the tree with the customary blue globes, red flares suihced to preserve the tree-lighting tradition. Mask and Dagger produced at least one show each term, its offerings includ- ing Squaring the Circle , The Poor of New York , Death Takes a Holiday , Volpone , journey's End , Macbeth , The Rope , and Shadow and Sub- stance . A joint committee of the Faculty and Student Body arranged for a series of assembly programs that brought lecturers and entertainers to the campus and various community groups cooperated in providing entertainment and social func- tions for the men of the Navy units. I One of the major social events that gained Muhlenberg nation-wide recog- nition was the Coca Cola Spotlight Band broadcast that brought Vaughn Monroe to the College community to salute the men of the second Navy training unit. More than 130 stations in a coast-to-coast chain carried the program and the Rain- bow Room at Central Park was jammed for the dance that followed. The Kiwanis Club and the Allentown Woman's Club combined for several informal dances and parties and the Lehigh County USO brought its shows and special attractions to the campus. More recognition came to the College when the United States Maritime Com- mission named one of its new troop-carrying Victory ships the SS MUHLENBERG VICTORY and selected Mrs. Levering Tyson as its sponsor. The vessel was launched at the Bethlehem-Fairfield yards in Baltimore on july 12, 1946 and made its first test 'run a month later. In another few weeks it went into service to return men from the European theatre and when those assignments were completed, it was converted into a cattle ship to help replenish Europe's war-depleted larder. It was also during the war years that Muhlenberg launched the campaign to Left, top: East Hall, the Upper Class dormitory: bottom, West Hall, the Freshman Dor- mitory. V U51