Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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For the first time in the history of our college, the United States is at war, A Service Plaque con¬ taining the names of S. T. C. men in the Armed Forces hangs where all may see, and despite our attempts at collegiate gaiety, we cannot escape the new and serious light m which we must needs see our liv es. We, as college students, however, are preparing to help build for a brighter future in which unself¬ ishness and love shall replace w and hatred, and men shal be free to live in peace and hap- piness unmolested. In such prep¬ aration there is hope, It is to this hope for the perpetuation of the ideals of our forefathers at Stony Point and of our brothers somewhere” that we dedicate the 1943 EVERGREEN, .3

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Our First Summer Session After only one week at home — and what a week — students began to flock to the Alma Mater, for on June 8 our college was opened for its first summer session. Eighty of the one hundred seventy-five students who enrolled were in-service teachers working for degrees or certificate renewals. It is surprising how freshmen can become sophomores, and sophomores juniors, and juniors seniors in the brief space of one week when ordinarily it takes three months. But the miracle happened, and those who had been a week before mere freshmen, found themselves enrolled in “lit’’ and chemistrv, while the new juniors were looking into a new world in which education of the child is King. Don’t let that picture give you the idea that summer school was all study! Afternoons might have been hot, but that did not stop our fun. There were tennis and sunbathing and movies and just plain loafing. There were trips to Ocean City at every chance. Our beloved and historic school bus man¬ aged to take us there now and then. 1 think most of the participants can agree that summer school was fun. A gay inform¬ ality not found during regular session pre¬ vailed. (Miss Ruth even let us stay up an hour longer and forsook her iron-bound rule of hose for women and coats for men at din¬ ner.) Yes, we had fun, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t glad when August 14 came. A vacation is always welcome, espeeiallv when three months’ good times must somehow be crowded into three hot, hot weeks. It really wasn’t as bad as we had expected it to be, was it? From the way we all talked when school closed in June, 1942, summer school was going to be an unsurmountable ordeal. But we all survived — even the heat of midsummer and trials of final examinations. 4