University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Deceased John Halsteod Banks, I1I, 48 Bernard Goodlevege, '46 Themas Russell Mclhinney, Jr., 46 Harold Lee West, 4b Horace Carl Brown, '45 Stanley Bruce Exar, 45 Howard Wallace Hill, 45 Robert Dongan Jones, '45 Robert William O'Donnell, 45 Wade Laurence Pith Herbert Rubenstein, ' Stuart Farwell Smith, Lowis Earl Staffard, Jr., '45 Frederic Gerrish Gaisaway, 44 William Joseph Harden, '44 Thomas Sheppard Ingham, Jr., 44 Kenneth Ottwell Larasch, 44 Mare Frederic Piths, 44 B-niumin Marris simfm. 44 Leroy Alvin Wilkins, Jr., 44 Gilbert anrdlluy Willis, 44 Casimir Leonard Blaska, 43 Wallace Lippincott, Jr., 43 Hareld Newton Sheaffer, 43 Jemas Edward Spillane, 43 Howard Cornslivs Wilking, 43 Robart Lee Coleman, 42 Warren William Grier, Jr., '42 Roger Sheridan Pancoast, '42 Frank Moore Ross, 42 Theodare Harrison Work, 111, '42 Clinton Frederick Schooclmaster, 42 Rebert Wirt Eckman, '41 Daniel Pavl O'Donnell, 4 Alan Caorl Porter, 41 Charles David Shorpless, 41 Clarence Oscar Deakyne, Jr., 40 Joseph Richard Elliott, '40 Fred Jackion Harper, 40 Glynden George Ware, 40 Kenneth Ferthenbaker Jones, 39 Reynolds Hill Knotts, 39 Robert Stapler Lippincott, '39 Edwin Reynolds Monchester, Jr., 39 Ferris Leon Wharton, '39 Roland Pusey Jackson, '38 William Harold Marvel, 38 Caleb Oliver Simpler, 38 Auvstin Yance Herner, 37 Harry Matthew First, '34 Robart Waller Cnllowny. 15 Charles Robinson Jefferis, 11, '35 Robert Malvin Yernon, 15 Henry Stevenson Brady, Jr., 34 Leo Earl Lechy, 34 John Samuel Smith, 34 John Granville Donoghue, 33 Edward Pikus, 33 Robert John Bostwick, '31 Lewis DeGrover Smith, Jr., 31 Frank Robert Thoroughgeed, 30 John Edwin Mortimer, '24 Lewis Edward Raoemar, 22 Reed Groves, '20 Alfred Lee Clifton, '02

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Dedication We dedicate this book to the glorious memory of our friends and classmates at the University of Delaware who, in the last war, fearlessly laid down their lives that we all may live and be free men. In no spirit of gloom or dejection do we so act but, as we admired them in life, so now we stand in awe and thankfulness that our lives, our destinies, and God's own world were in such safe hands, We had no need to inquire as to their actions. Every wind that blew its way over the battlefields in all theaters of operation brought back tales of heroism, valor, and resourcefulness such as the world has never known. To the loved ones of those who have gone, there is the pride of knowing that they reached the highest peak of honor. To those loved ones and to us is given the supreme privilege of offering thanks for those noble lives and fadeless deaths. We have the sober responsibility of a firm resolve that they shall not have died in vain, A note of sadness and lossstrong, personal, and poignant feelings-comes to all friends, associates, and classmates who return to take up once more the familiar life upon the campus. The joy with which we looked forward to the return has been clouded by the vacancies that confront us. We recall the tender and loving associations that were ours and, having in mind the examples of those now gone, we realize the truth of the poet's words: The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring. Judge Richard S. Rodney

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Among our prized possessions of the past, one that always came to the fore during the long days of military life, was the college we had attended. We had wondered many times just what modifications and alterations had occurred when the bulk of student enrollment gave way to the Enlisted Reserve Corps in April of 1943. The fall of '43 found the campus lonely and dererted. The University of Delaware bad become a ghost wniver- sity. The conscionsness of the loneliness war not over- wihelming. It was wot a great emotion lke grief or love that are climactic and then swbside and merge into every- day living. It war pnawing, aching loneliners that some- dimes loomed at yow from gquiet swowfalls and V-wiail letters, now popped wp wnexpectedly in a classroom or a forgotien songterribly present or elte in the back of your mindalways, always i was there, Girls whe cane to the Women's College that fall with expectations of a whirlwind, collegiate life were radly distliusioned. This war serions business and, like every- thing elre that was ipeeded up in wartime, the college program was accelerated. Three terms were crowded inte a mere ten months, The bandful of boyr who remained found adequate accommodation in Brown Hall. The fraternity bouses were closed, You wondered what the buildings acrors Main Streer were and when someone told you that they composed Old College, it browght back a vagwe and for- eign term that was filed in the back of your mind, You watched the ASTRP's march to and from caser, disciplined and regimentated, living apart from you. You looked at their wniforms and thought abowt other uni- Ji'.un.l'-rj' ;rmf dtdy. You f.lfwr.wgi':.r abaut Jreeaters, and d:jg 10 checked shirts and maybe a pipe and wondered if that wniform would ever be changed for these again. Ounce in a while the deadly vowtine of things wars broken by a formal dance, Either you were herded into a bus and went to Bainbridge or the sailors were herded imio a bus and came beve. If they came bere you were berded inte one voom, and they into anotber, and yau lined wp according to beight. If you were number eight in your line your date for the evening war number eight in the sailors' line. You met your date in the ball be- tween the two rooms and were introduced. 1t war a very sovdid busiess and no one cared for it particnlarly, A wise man once said that all pood things must come to an end. So must ol bad things. With the end of the wars in Enrope and Aria a bandful of the boys re- turned to the University of Delaware in the fall of 45, Little Flower Horpital was converted into Dark Brown Hall asr a dormitory, the college program war wa longer accelerated, the Men's and Wowmen's Colleges merged, and an off -the-record football team was formed. It was a very small push toward the old college life bur it afforded greal expectations, In February many more veteranr retwrwed and the spivit began to spring up awew in the opening of fra- termity houresr, the Tratming House, Student Union, the long-dormant west wing of the library, Old College, and in parties and dances, The ASTRP's disappeared ai guickly as they bad come. The wheels bad begun to turn, By the fall af 46 three dorm-barracks bad been erected on campns to dccommodate some of the overwhelming flow of new students. Most notable of the fall events bai been the place the football team bar achieved in the National atbletic limelight by completing ity thivty-first undefeated game, including a victory in ity first bow! game, The wheels ave twrning, the spirvit is revived, and loneliness is sometbing that died guite pracefnlly when the first retmrning troops eagerly shoved thrangl e Jersey City Terminal to the waiting trains that were to take them bome. And ar well ar a lack of papils, the University admin- istrative and teaching posts were understaffed. Early in 1944, the University suffered two great losses . , . the deaths of Presidemt Walter W. Hulliben and Dean George E. Dation. Their positions were filled by capable ment of an acting capacity and with the retwrn of the Uwiversity to a new era of post-war envollment, there came a new evd in the administration of Delaware. The beginning of the fall semester of 1946 saw the inangn- ration of the University of Delaware's 20th president, Dr, William Samunel Carlion