Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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FROM THE PRESIDENT In the JAMBALAYA four years ago I wrote of the temporary change in the function of education which Tulane faced at that time, and it has recorded the changing aspects of the University ' s life during those years. Although the war period required consideration of temporary and emergency needs, plans also were made for our educational progress in the future. At the war ' s end Tulane announced plans to obtain new financial resources and to bring additional endow- ment to the University. This does not suggest expansion. It has always been our desire to provide the best possible instruction for a selected student body. The endowment of the University must be increased now to enable Tulane to grow normally and to maintain our present educational commitments, the assurance to this section of fine educational opportunity. Commencement this year brings an end to the wartime V-12 and NROTC programs. We shall regret to say goodbye to the Navy trainees who have come from the forty-eight states. We shall miss seeing their trim uniforms and their smart parades. We shall remember with a smile and an understanding heart the discomforts of their crowded living conditions and the monotony of a mess- hall existing on the barrenness of a civilian market! With it over we shall look back upon the past years of wartime existence with more tolerance and with nostalgia for the good friends who saw it through with us. We are happy now to welcome the return of war veterans, among whom are many former Tulanians, as well as the younger students who have not known military service. The prob- lems of reconversion are difficult and slow of solving. There is no gallantry in enduring them. But now we must engage in the struggle for peace, and ft must be without fear and without falntness of heart. This book will bring to mind the year 1945-46, which saw the end of the war and the graduation of the School of Medicine on the day of the announcement of victory over Japan. It will show the faces of many friends for whom war ' s end will mean the return to their chosen Alma Mater or the shedding of their uni- formed existence at Tulane. All of these friends will leave something of them- selves here, and will carry something of us with them throughout their lives.

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THE filu»Hi ASSOCIATION MISS BEATRICE M. FIELD Director of Alumni Relations OFFICERS Lester J. Lautenschlaeger President Dr. Walter O. Moss Vice-President E. Claggett Upton, Jr Vice-President A. Watson Chaprran Vice-President Harry Garrbia, Jr Secretary Clayton L. Nairne Treasurer Beatrice M. Field Director of Alumni Relations EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LAW: Leon S. Cahn, Edward Dubuisson. Moise W. Dennery; tvlEDICINE: Dr. Charles J. Bloom, Dr. Rhett G. Mctvlahon; Dr. Conrad G. Collins; ARTS AND SCIENCES: Stanley S. Morris, Sherwood S. Clayton, William P. Hageriy; ENGINEERING: W. Claiborne Per- rilliat, James L. Kemper, Pat Richardson; COMMERCE: Shelby Friedrichs, Wm. B. Carter, George Dinwiddle; GRADUATE: Harry R. Cabral. Mrs. George Gardiner; Mrs. Louis Binstock; NEWCOMB: Mrs. George Mayer, Mrs. L. W. Stone, Miss Angela Devlin; SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: Mrs. May F. Dykes, Mrs. W. A. Gil- laspie, Jr., Miss Louise Meyer; REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE: Gerald Andrus, Ladd A. Dinkins, W. James Amoss, Garland Taylor. . Colorful Pre-Game Ceremonies Were Part of the 1945 Homecoming Celebration. Alumni Officers Harry Gamble, Clayton Nairne, Lester Lautenschlaeger, Watson Chapman and Tick Upton. The Homecoming Luncheon Brought Together Many Tulane Alumni.