Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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more— and a return to the pre-war schedule of two semesters, with the fall term beginning in late September. The Mary Lyons Annex ' as purchased to help house a greatly expanded student body; long lines formed outside the dining room, the post office and the bookstore. Swarthmore, like so many other colleges, was suffering from o er-crowding and an increased strain on equip- ment and facilities. But despite these new handicaps, the spirit of the old pre-ivar S varthmore -(vas beginning to sho ' iv through again. The year was an especially active one for the college. The five million dollar campaign fund drive was laimched; Swarth- more ' s AVC chapter gained new members and new strength; another O ' Rourke campaign (the second in the history of the class of ' 47) was held; the Phoenix, the News Bureau, and SN all grew greatly in size and importance; the faculty was ex- panded, courses revised and new seminars offered; new officers were built in Parrish, and a new building was erected on the campus; the return to peacetime brought some new esthetic ad- ditions to the life of the college; a redecorated Commons, music in the din.ng room . . . Swarthmore was reconverting fast, and the class of ' 47 was to leave a college very different from the one ■(vhich the) had entered in wartime ' 43. The senior class, of course, was active in all aspects of the new routine and the stepped-up activities of the college. For their class president they elected By Ebersole, veteran and Swarthmore man of pre-war vintage. Vice-president was ex-V-12 and class officer of long standing, Fuzzy Fausnaugh. The secretary was Teny Lorwin, ex-Phoenix editor and woman-about-campus. Treasurer was veteran Ken Allebach whose meteoric rise in status (he was president of the freshman class the year before) was typical of the chronological confusion in the pigeonholeing of veterans as to class. 22

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FDHTY-SEVEIV CLASS OFFICERS: Fausnaugh, Allebach, Lorwin, Eber- f sole

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The graduates of 1947 ha e seen the beginning and end of one era and the beginning of another, and better one. They vary widely in age, in the experiences which the past four years have brought them, and in the plans which they have for the future. But they leave the college as a unit, and as a testimony to Swarthmore ' s survival over five years of confusion, change, and anxiety. They are a testimony to the return of its former unity, its plans, and its ideals to a college which, with these men and women as its first alumni, can look ahead to a new day of ex- l ansion, improvement, security, and peace.