Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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r In preparing this volume of the LANTHORX we unUke our pre- decessors have had unusual difficul- ties to face. Times are critical and uncertain. Our class had heen weakened by the throes of war. But with our hearts bent on ser- ving old S. U. by keeping unbroken the chain of history so interestingly set forth year by year in these an- nuals, we hereby present to our friends and fellow students the re- sult of our labors. In perusing these pages if you lind on them a few smiles and can grasp a bit of the spirit of our love for old Sus- quehanna our efforts will have been repaid. We ask you not to criticise us too harshly. We have endeavored to give you a bit of information, his- tory and remembrance. Laughing arrows, tipped with innocent wit and humor, unhurtful as they are, have been shot at random and we trust the victims of such aims will laugh with us and our fellows. —THE EDITORS. Page Four

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Ullir 0. A. 01. (E. -«- HEN the United States entered the great world war her apparent I I J unpreparedness was a problem that made immediate success in battle My almost impossible. The raising of a large army and the transporta- tion of the men to camps was a simple matter. But to get sufficient officers to lead and command them was a vastly different problem and one that puzzled the military authorities. She exhausted her officers training schools at once and established officers training camps, but the supply was too limited and entirely inadequate to fill the demand. As a last resort the government appealed to the colleges asking them for their best men to be placed in command of the accumulating forces. The Students Army Training Corps was then established and Susque- hanna, with the thousands of other colleges in the land, was given her part to perform in the supplying of these much needed men. Just in the midst of completed organization, when things were beginning to run in a systematic, orderly and military manner, at the time when the fellows were working hardest, came the glad news from across the sea that an armistice had been signed and that cessation of hostalities had immediately followed. The coming of Peace meant the disbanding of the S. A. T. C. Officers would no longer be needed and demoblization was soon to follow. So it was that the S. A. T. C. short-lived but of the inestimable value that it was, became history on the records of old S. U. on the 16th day of December, Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen. Our Commanding Officer, Capt. James H. Beazley, performed his duties among us in a manner such as a man of his standing and character can alone perform. Lieut. William K. Woodruff, .Senior C)fficer, a young man firm but con- siderate, full of life and friendly to all, can only lie appreciated most bv those who came in contact with him every day. His service at S. U. was much appreciated and he shall live in our memory as one respected and admired. Lieut. Charles P. Bateman, Adjuntant, who assisted Lieut. Woodruff won his way into our hearts in many ways — at drill, on the foot-ball squad and in the orderly room. His gentlemanly deportment, his athletic abilitv. and his many qualities of strong manhood, all placed him in the historv of Sus(|uehanna as one to be remembered with pride. — Ed. Pai e Five