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

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PRESIDENT WILLIAM SAMUEL CARLSON, Ph.D. During the past five years hundreds of thousands of men and women who nurmallj.' would have been students left college or never reached college. Those now en- rolled as well as those M:L'Lcing admission have given us an unparalleled opportunity to provide a whole genera- tion more and better higher education. This is a tre mendous challenge. To meet the challenge, we are making whatever modifications or adjustments are nec- essary in our established regulations and programs. The colossal task with which we are confronted has been made easier lj;' the quality of students enrolled, The large number of veterans has had a sobering effect on all of us. The veteran has returned to us realistic, matter- of-fact, but also strengthened in his natural idealism. He is not easily pe!.'-u.ulr;-d hy limg.m:, or educational double talk, The veteran has git:n the campus an en- tirely new and husiness-like atmosphere, Having given up some of the most valuable years of his manhood, he is now impatient for results, But above all, he has come back to us h.'u'ing learned how much he still had to learn and with an overriding passion to make this a better world. We at the Univer- sity of Delaware cannot be exempt from our responsibility WILLIAM SAMUEL CARLSON h. Ironwood, Mich.,, Mov., 18, 1905; A.B., U. of Mich.,, 1930, M.S, 1932, Ph.D., 1938; student U, of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, Columbia, 1935; m. Mary Jane Rowe, Dec 17, 1932; 1 daw., Kristin Mary., Asst. in geology U. of Mich.,, 1927; special observer LS. Weather Bureau, 1928; held leader, U of Mich., Greenland Expdna., 1928-29: tech, adviser on Greenland to Chicago Tribune, 1929; asst. in dept. geology U. of Mich, 1929. 30, leader fourth t'xplll'l. to Greenland, 1930-31; Henry Goddard Leach Fellow, Am.- Scandinavian Foundation, 1931-32; instr., geol- ogy U. of Mich,, 1932-33, grad. fellow, 1933, asst, prof. U. of Minn.,, 1937.39, asso. prof., 1939-41, dir. admissions and records, 1941- 43, dean and prof., 1946. Special consultant 1 arctic hr-:l'!-h;ll'h tir l,'n:-ll'l-:ig gen., USAAF., 1941; commd. maj., Air Corps, 1942, and ad vanced through grades to col, 1945; asst chief, spl. projects branch, plans div., Hdgrs AAEFE, l'b -'i!-i,i, exer. Western Ht!mihj!iitri' branch, plans div., 194344, dir. Arctic, Des- ert and Tropic branch, A.AF. Tactical Center, 194445 fll'., l.':'R.f,'., since 1945 Awarded Legion of Merit, Asiatic-Pacific Theatre Cam- paign, Am. Theatre and European-African- Middle East medals. Clubs: Explorers MNew Yilfk,. M U.:. -,:F f'rfid!.:i Author: Grtv:'n- land Lies MNorth, 1940; Report of the MNorth- ern Dhivision of the Fourth University of Mich- igan Greenland Expedition, 1941, Comnthr, articles to tech. jours toward him, MNor can we ignore the normal group of high school graduates who have come to us for an edu- cation. We cannot afford to separate the veteran from the non-veteran, for such segregation would have unde- sitable consequences for both groups. Well founded plans for the postwar period were laid during the term in office of my predecessor, Dr. W, Owen Sypherd, our esteemed University Professor and eminent author and authority on English literature. Cur- rently we are projecting our plans for an even pgreater We rmust respon- sive to the demands of the times. We must direct our work to promote the democratic way of life in all its richness and fullness. Will we measure up? 1 have confidence that we shall measure up, provided our chief purpose shall be to know the truth and through the discipline of the search there for, to build character, ability and understanding in the lives of our students. That the University of Delaware shall continue to do its share in serving its day and generation is a cooperative responsibility shared by stu- dents and faculty alike, University of Delaware. remain

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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

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DR. WILBUR OWEN SYPHERD University Professor B. Zion, Md., June 28, 1877; AB, Del. Coll, Newark, 1896; BS, U, of Pa, 190d1; M.S., Harvard, 1901, Ph.D., 19046 ; unmarried, Prin. schs, Port Penn, Del.,, 189698 instr English, U. of Wis., 1901-03; prof. English, U. of Del, since 1906; Acting Pres. University of Delaware, May 1944 .II.II'IC' 1946, ?,;-'.l-.l':' as sec, local bd, Wew Castle C sunty, World War Mem. Modern I,.,n,;, MAssn. America Coll. Conf. on l:l'lj:'.:i.x l in Central Atlantic States, Soc for Promotion l':::.grl. ..:.: Edn., Nat Council of Teachers of English, Shakespeare Assn, America, American Association Univ. Profs, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa FPhi. Club: University Philadelphia. Author: Studies in Chaucer's House of Fame, 1907: Handbook of English for Engineers, 1913; Manual of English for I::nJ;i- neers, 1933 The Literature of the English Bible, 1938; The Book of Books, 1944, Editor: The English BibleSelections, 1921; John Christopherson's Jephthah with F, H., Forbes, 1928 Home: MNewark, Del