Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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This Changing World TO WEEP for peace, yet learn to laugh in war is the destiny that a bruised world flings to its youth. S.T.C. has seen, and is yet to see its effect many times. One after another, young men enroll to become her students while they may. For a time they mingle in her halls and study in her class¬ rooms, working and playing with no out¬ ward expression of their realization of the inevitable end of their brief college days. Then one day they lay aside their books and go guietly away to take up their guns. Perhaps their class or some other organi¬ zation recognizes their leaving with a fare¬ well party, but with that they are gone. Theirs it is to do the hard part of a task to which all humanity must directly or in¬ directly commit itself. Theirs it is to fight for a world ' s lost right to peace and life. This time we must not fail—they must not fail—to restore those important values which have been lost. They leave their college life with the silent oath that they shall not fail and the silent plea that we at home shall not let them down but shall do our part on the home front. Our boys do not forget their Alma Mater when they have gone forth to war. There is always a fresh supply of letters and cards and pictures from Italy, Africa, Aus¬ tralia, England, or United States camps displayed on the large bulletin board in the main corridor. Their college remem¬ bers her boys, too. A new name is added to the Service Plague whenever a boy leaves and the English Speech classes, as well as unorganized groups, correspond with those whose addresses are known. Shirley Churchill has written a poem which expresses the feeling all of us have for the boys to whom we said goodbye: Prayer for a Soldier Please, Qod, watch over him tonight, ’Twas not his will that he be sent to fight. Stay near him wherever he may be, For at this hour he has special need of Thee. It wasn ' t easy to see him go, And when we ' d meet again I didn ' t know. I wanted to be brave and so refused to cry, Thus with a smile I said goodbye. He left his home for some distant shore, But we all know what he ' s fighting for To make a world where men be free ; And when it ' s over, please send him safely home to me. 7

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“Miss THIS OIL PORTRAIT, presented and unveiled in the college dining hall by the Alumni Associa¬ tion, January 28, is a constant symbol of the ap¬ preciation of the service of Miss Ruth Powell to the college since its founding nineteen years ago. It was painted by Miss Dorothy Mitchell, Salisbury artist and teacher. It was unveiled by the son of Mrs. Aline K. Hayman, an alumna, during the homecoming at the mid-winter com- 6 Ruth” mencement. The officers of the organization who so honored “Miss Ruth ' ' on this occasion, and for her sixtieth birthday are: Mrs. Sara Collins Kelly, president; Miss Imogene Caruthers, vice- president; and Mrs. Anna Jones Cooper, sec¬ retary. Dr. Ida Belle Thomas, alumni advisor, spoke truly at the unveiling when she said, “No one has done more than ' Miss Ruth ' to further the lives and the fortunes of students.

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S. T. C.-eans With The Armed Services Lt. (j.g.) J. WADE CARUTHERS, USNR, on a minesweeper in the Caribbean area. ENSIGN SAMUEL E. SEIDEL, line officer in the USNR. Capt. JOHN EICHNOR with the Infantry Armored Force, a member of the regular Army since 1938. ENSIGN WILLIAM NEWCOMB Navy Air Corps. Lt. HENRY McFADDEN WILSON, “Mickey”, with the Army Air Corps. WARRANT OFFICER ROBERT A. ELDERDICE is overseas with the Army. Pvt. PRESTON MESSICK a bomb squadron attached to th e Air Corps. Lt. “FREDDIE” MESSICK with the U. S. Marine Corps.