Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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BU BS ljlflll TUU Y -and Hool-is for Tomorrow! . .. More than anything else, this slogan and the campaign it repre- sented captured the spirit of Queens College under arms. We, who studied at Queens College when history-making was not confined to texts, liked our classes and our book-learning. That's why we went to college. But we knew that, given the circumstances of 1942, books alone couldn't combat bullets. So we decided to raise money to buy bombs now, in 1942. And with an eye to future peace, we decided to buy the bombs with WAR stamps and bonds, to be redeemed in 1952 and buy books for our college library. Pledges of support from every nook and cranny on the campus were sent to the Student Council War Committee which organized the campaign. And on May 6, 1942, an all-student variety show was whipped up to raise funds to buy the 35750 bond which would buy 500 books for the library when it matured. THU T Ll E We've seen now how Queens College fared in the Spring semester of 1942 -its first full semester at war. Weyve seen how its students, its curriculum, its play, its discussions geared themselves to total war. But what about its students who were fighting this war on the front- line trenches - Gerhard Chiesa, one of our classmates who was at Fort Knox in May, 1942, wrote home: You donlt realize how much you miss Queens until you're away for a short while . . . Although I was never prominent in any of the affairs at the college, and probably went around with an I-don't-give-a-damn-look, I nevertheless feel that I was a part of the school, and in some respects I am still part of our school .... At present, I'm in the armored force, and like Queens, it's a new unit . . . but like Queens, it'll be the best. Bob Feeley, another classmate, W1'OtC 'KYou do not know how much I want to go to those classes with you . . . when I received your last letter and heard about your program, made me very 'school sick.' . . These are our boys. This is . . . HUUEE 5 EULLEEE T W H

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LAGEAHUS FUR UEFE SE The Ethics of Patrintit Hush Money But there were other ways- less formal, less ordered-by which Queens College met the challenge of the Axis. Late in the Fall term, even before December 7, Prof. Jack Hexter of the English history courses thought up the scheme called playing pushkisf' A little tired of tardy students, and a lot interested in national defense, Doc Hexter decided to assess late students one penny for every minute late to class, the revenue to go to the Dean's fund in the form of defense stamps and bonds. The scheme fired the imagina- tion of faculty and students, and only a few weeks later, a score of classes adopted the idea. Dr. Oscar Shaftel elaborated upon it slightly, and decreed that if he was late he'd pay two cents per minute. Pushkis, of course, are the little receptacles used to house the dough. Dudley Straus' push- ki was a whimsical elephant-bank, F. X. Nulty used a prosaic mayon- naise jar, while Doc Hexter was satisfied with a bottle held to- gether with adhesive tape. But it was left to Dean Kiely to add the glamorous finishing touch to the episode. Should America, the Dean wondered, profit by the wages of sin? Acknowledging 3.34 col- lected the first week by Dr. Hexter, Dean Kiely claimed that I find myself 'twixt Scylla and Charybdisf' Are the pennies, she asked, hush money, conscience money or plain penitential pence? With one breath I condemn the low estate from which the riches rise and in another I hail the brave impulse by which my treasury makes unto itself friends of the Mammon of Iniquityf' Dean Kiely finally decided to OK the patriotic device with this compromise- For that which you are, I weepg for that which you give, I rejoice -gratefullyf' 137

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