University of Evansville - LinC Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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( Class :4 : ■iMM Die V mM ■ |«||||p ' i All good things must have a beginning and an end. So back in September, 1941, the Senior Class of ’45 had its beginning. The members flocked from all corners of the Tri-State to be bewildered by a week of “orientation” and then finally settle down to study (?) through the first year. The rugged members of the class made the football team. The women organized Gamma Delta with Marge Wheeler, Pauline Neucks, Martha Rucker, and Nancy Cox as officers. The annual Freshie-Soph battle ended victoriously for us. We elected Herbie Northern, Charles Taylor, Jeanne Anderson, and Marilyn Smith for our class officers. Our musical freshies joined the band and choir and the literary ones joined the Crescent and LinC staffs. In February we pledged, and then came our Hell Week. Finally May and finals arrived and afterwards good-byes were said until fall. ] ST ■ President Peggy Reisin September, 1942, came but many of the old classmates did not. Uncle Sam needed EC manpower and most of the fellas enlisted in one of the three reserves in school. Several of the girls took Nurses’ Aid training — yep, we knew there was a war on. But college life went on too — officers elected to head Kangaroo Court were Bill Fisher, Dick Thompson, Bob Lindsay, and Dick Notter. The football eleven and the basketball squad drew many Sophs, while chosen as Queen of the Gridiron was Sophomore Nancy Ann Cox. W.A.A. had two sophomores as officers — Virginia Mattingley and Grade DeLong. Pauline Neucks and Leroy Hodapp were active in the Thespians, and Pauline and Ruth Campbell represented the EC Debate team at the national conference in Chicago. Joe Chandler was assistant editor of the Crescent and other members of the 21

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Secretary Vera Miller VV ' . 4 ' ' Vice-President Grace Gehlhausen

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Crescent staff were Nancy Hooker, Bill Fisher, Leroy Hodapp, Mary Jane Simon, Lois Mehringer, and Pauline Neucks. YM and YW along with choir and the departmental clubs played an important role in our social lives, and soon an¬ other year had flown by and ’twas vacation time again. It was vacation time for some, at least, but the persevering souls went to sum¬ mer school, so when September came again we found new members in our midst and old members joining the Seniors — and here we were, Juniors! Our officers were Jim Bohrer, Pat Hallinan, Ruth Joyce Johnston, and Marge Heylmun. Joyce Williams was secretary of the administrative board during the second semester. Members of the Student-Faculty committees were Pat Hallinan, Gracie DeLong, John Grant, Paul Caywood, Pauline Neucks, and Miriam Tirmenstein. Co-editors of the LinC were Joyce Williams and Pauline Neucks. The Women’s Council had Joy Lee Mundy and Pat Hallinan on the board, and Marjorie Shelley was president of the Thetas. Charles Buck and Jean Lindenschmidt were elected to Phi Beta Chi. James Bohrer was listed in Who’s Who, and James, Joyce Williams, and Pauline Neucks were chosen Campus Notables. Many stu¬ dious juniors made the Dean’s List; those who rated Pi Gamma Mu were Joyce Williams, Miriam Tirmenstein, Virginia Mattingley, and Arlene David. This, then, was our Junior year — with no prom. September, 1944, finally arrived and the beginning of the end was at hand. To head SGA we had Pat Hallinan as president and Fred Stephenson as treas¬ urer, with many other worthy seniors serving on SFF Committees. Class officers for the year were Peggy Reising, Grace Gehlhausen, Vera Miller, and Fred Stephenson. Seniors really dominated the presidencies on the campus — Sigs, Joyce Wil¬ liams and Thelma Overdeer; Thetas, Joy Lee Mundy and Grace Gehlhausen; Castys, Eleanor Wright and Peggy Reising; Philos, Fred Stephenson; Women’s Council, Arlene David; YW, Marjorie Shelley; Tri Mu, Paul Caywood; W.A.A., Gracie DeLong; A.C.E., Joy Lee Mundy and Thelma Overdeer; Secretarial Club, Miriam Tirmenstein. Editor of the LinC was Pauline Neucks. Who’s Who had Virginia Mattingley, Pat Hallinan, Pauline Neucks, Joyce Williams, Marjorie Shelley, Arlene David Paul Caywood, and Fred Stephenson. New members of Pi Gamma Mu were Joy Lee Mundy, Esther Kaetzel, Bettye Baugh, Janet Frank, and Fred Stephenson. And so the end is here. For some it came in February, for most of us in June, and for a few others it will come in August. But for all of us, it finishes that happy part of our life that is known as college “daze.” So now armed with two letters behind our name and the coveted sheepskin, we venture forth to “face the future unafraid.” 22