Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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class, went into the Navy. Each year we lost several classmates to the services. The flag of Phi Mu Delta flew at half-mast for one whom we lost completely. We pray that there may he no others. Late in February of our freshman year we hastened to vacate Hassinger Hall. Selinsgrove Hall, and the Cottage, so that on March 1 we could welcome 1(50 Army Air Corps Air Students to our campus as the 35th College Training Detachment. Later 160 more came. We shared everything with them . . . our dining hall, our classrooms, our weary professors. At 5 p. m. each night we respectfully watched their retreat. They had dances for us, and we had dances for them, and one especially hilarious night . . . two melodramas and a vaudeville, and peanut shells all over chapel. On the other hand, we were sorry that the presence of the soldiers on campus eliminated, for the first time, the annual May Day celebrations. When our class returned to Susquehanna in the fall as sopho- mores, we elected Frank Wolfe and Carmen Beckwith to lead our class and show the Army boys on our campus a thing or two in the line of frosh hazing, much to their amusement and the consternation of the freshmen. After helping cut out leaves, we enjoyed the soldiers ' Thanksgiving Dance at the Colony. We felt like chips in a sea of khaki at the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners which we ate with the soldiers, with more than three soldiers for each girl. Hardly a girl was left in Seibert Hall the night of our first formal, the Snow Ball, just before Christmas of our sophomore year. Everyone admired the huge tinseled tree and the hundreds of stars we worked on so furiously all week in the dorm. Just before summer vacation last year the last 35th CTD E Group departed, and we left our cafeteria style of eating and alcove sitting for regular tables and home-made ice cream at last, with waitresses this time instead of waiters. Only twenty-six of our original freshman class of eighty-four returned to Susquehanna this fall, and six of these will be graduated when we return next fall as seniors. Out of our class have developed many able leaders ; we have proved ourselves in extra-curricular activi- ties, sports, and scholarship ; we are proud of our classmates in service. We acknowledge with much appreciation the help and inspiration we have received from our professors. We will ever strive to do our best so that when we leave college, SU will be as proud of us as we are of SU. 21

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1 1 - J . OFFICERS President - Vice President Secretary - Treasurer Franklin Wolff. Rixe G. Winev, Jr. Jean Kinzer - Marjorie Barton A state of war exists . . . . With what a mixture of emotions we listened to that announce- ment made halfway through our senior year in high school! The following fall we were the first class to enroll at Susquehanna in war-time. If the war is not over next year, we will never know, except through fable, what Susquehanna was like in peace time. How- ever, we tried to keep up the peace-time traditions as much as was possible in view of the times. Bill Hoke, our froshy prexy, couldn ' t run quite fast enough. And what rain-makers the girls of our class turned out to be on Seihert porch roof under the supervision of the sophomore girls ! Of course, we could never say the freshmen hoys didn ' t pray for it. As green frosh, we were thoroughly hazed clothes inside out for the boys, beacon noses and lamp shades, among other things, for the girls. How glad we were to hand the sophomores a vigorous defeat in the annual Frosh-Soph football game the morn- ing of the first combined IIomeeoming-Parents ' -Founders ' Day! In February of our freshman year we wept over the departure of the thirty young men who suddenly left our midst. The following July 1 many Susquehannans, including many from our freshman 20

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Marjorik Barton 415 Oakland Avenue, Williamsport, Pa. Omega Delta Sigma Theater Guild 1, 2, 3; Alpha Psi Omega 2. 3; Intra- mural Sports 1, 2, 3; Women ' s Athletic Association 1, 2, 3, Secretary 3; Judiciary Council 3; Student Christian Association 1, 2, 3; I.anthorx Business Staff 1, 3; Business Society 1, 2, 3; Class Treasur- er 3. Commercial Education Carmen Marie Beckwith 721 Eighth St., Oakmont, Allegheny Co. Sigma Alpha Iota Women ' s Athletic Association 1, 2, 3; Theater Guild 1, 2. 3; Susquehanna Singers 2. 3; Orchestra I. 2, 3; Hand 1 ; Trinity Choir 1, 2, 3; Zion Lutheran Choir 1; Student Christian Association 1,2,3; Class Vice President 2; Inter-Sorority Council 3; Wo- men ' s Judiciary Committee 3; Honor Hockey Team 3; Operetta 2; Fire Captain 2; Susquehanna Re- porter 2, 3; Student Conductor ' s Orchestra 3; Girls ' Swing Band 2, 3. Music Education Emily Lou Botdokf R. F. I). No. 1, Box 50, Harrisburg, Pa. Sigma Alph Iota Suxourhatina Staff 1, 2, 3; Marching Band 1; Sym- phonic Society 1; Symphony Orchestra 2, 3; Oper- etta 2; Women ' s Athletic Association 1, 2, 3; Stu- dent Christian Association 1, 2, 3; Dehating Society 3; Student Conductor ' s Orchestra 3; Girls ' Swing Band 2; Varsity Hockey Team 3; Susquehanna Singers 2, 3; Trinity Choir 1, 2, 3. Music Education CLASS OF 19 46 22