Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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Here ' s to the campus co-ed of O.W.U Tomorrow ' s Leading Lady .... from dawn till dusk, treading the century-old walks of Wesleyan .... from Austin and Monnett to University and Elliot .... from the quarry to Sulphur Springs .... struggling with the trials and tribulations of Josephine College .... keeping ever sharp and polished her proud title of campus queen. In this changing War Wesleyan one finds Betty Co-ed worrying over the V-mail returns .... nursing the writ- er ' s cramp .... getting rid of sleepy eyes and prospective gray hairs, the result of too strenuous morale building . . . . living up to the sweet and beautiful, you can bet tradition, in spite of a world of No nylons, I ' m sorry and No curlers, I ' m sorry .... dashing from choir to Y meeting and from Transcript office to W.S.G.A. meeting, without the usual senior cars to act as transports .... breaking diet rules at a Friday night pointless sprea .... enjoying leisure hours by pausing and refreshin in the smoker or over a frosted malt at Buns. But all is not frivolous frolic .... they, too, hove th serious moments .... burning the midnight oil . . pouring over many a volume of forgotten lore . . dreaming of a high four-point .... keeping ever in m the Mortar Board pin and the Phi Bete key .... occel ating to the utmost .... giving up leisure summer va tions in the realization of the importance of their colleg training in a world at war .... all these go to complete ' the picture of the life of Wesleyan ' s little women. This year, something new has been added to the co-ed ' s college environment .... the Navy .... and true to her tradition, the campus belle has never let a problem stump her .... solution? .... Saturday night dances at the gym .... meeting at the Union .... faithful appearances at all the football and basketball games .... picnics and hay-rides .... open houses by the Greek-letter girls .... running interference for their brother fraternities who already have company .... moonlight strolls by the quarry .... occasional treks to Columbus to use the precious 1 :30 pers .... all these are the weapons the co-ed wields to keep the situation well in hand. And so they carry on .... in the face of a changing world .... in the absence of the other half of their classmates .... keeping the Wesleyan traditions true .... keeping the Wesleyan spirit alive .... the campus co-eds of 1943-44. L o-edd

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' Sweet and Beautiful you can bet, they ' re the pride of old Monnett '

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Hut, two, three, four, to your left, two, three, four .... morning, noon and night the familiar sound echoes from the campus and the Good Ship Stuyvesant .... by platoons they come .... the toll, straight Navy Air Corps of tomorrow .... perhaps weighted down by heavy brown briefcases, but always with heads in the clouds. Their day ends only when the Stuyvesant chimes peal forth the ten o ' clock taps .... little wonder that Thurs- day night and liberty till 7:45 is a big occasion, and week-ends an all too brief respite. Wesleyan can ' t compete with the wings which will mean mission completed when they make their first non- stop flight .... life for the V-5 ' s is code and navigation and flight and engine and blinkers .... but there ore also recollections of pennies tossed in Dish Water Run for luck before exams in true Annapolis style .... the Battalion shows .... Sundays at the Union .... Fare- well formols .... Sunday afternoon dances at the ship .... the co-eds. Their number is of ever-changing composition .... with monthly addition of a dodo battalion and departure of a senior group .... three fast-moving months from the time they first struggle up to Stuyvesant under a load of G.I. clothes until they march from there with blues and gorrisorj s upon graduation .... Southern drawJsTand Newe gt d accents .... ballads inspired itf under regulations, such as Keep It Over 2.05 -end watch .... skillful pieces of journalism in newspaper, the . 5J -lines .... generous officers giving out ten gfa 3:w£ to be worked off on Saturday night. Wesleyan is the take-off .... they ' ve been warming up .this for months .... some in schools and colleges others already acclimated to Navy discipline as tar-macks .... writing, waiting for the signal .... zooming oht of here after three months to go on to advanced t ajning in stations all over the country .... W.T.S. scPToOTi pre-JUght, advanced flight .... each one step closer to, those coveted gold wings. cadets are paVt of the campus life for a brief period of the college year ,. . . an eleven-week stop in Delaware ipn their way uj ihe ladder .... but they are grateful for tneTFIeri ines thoKis Wesleyan .... this feeling will follow them aN over tHe Ci untry in letters from faithful co-ferfs tFTey.Tedve behind. ? I