University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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H Ellsworth F. DuTeau usker spirit is a thing usuailv defined in terms of loud cheers at a football game, scarlet streamers and the black and gold and red of Mortar Boards and Innocents. This student and old grad loyalty thrives on color, noise and rah-rahs. Just as important, however, is that more concrete loyalty which brings alums together in the large cities of the nation, unites Nebraskans all over the country. Organs of this after-college clan- feeling are the Alumni Association headed by Ellsworth F. Du Teau, and the Nebraska Alumnus, 4500 copies of which are sent out each month to members of the Association. Student organization newly created to help foster the university spirit in high schools throughout the state of Nebraska is the Nebraska Foundation. In cooperation with the University and the Alumni Associa- tion, chairman John Jay Douglass and his cohorts traveled across the state giving out propaganda literature and showing colored movies of campus life and times. Good old Husker spirit seems to be on the upturn. Homecoming at Nebraska. Jean Christie and Max Whittaker, left, start off the gay day with rousing pep talks. Innocents president Burt Thiel, below, was toastmaster at the baldricked boys ' homecoming hmcheon.

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s logan of the Nebraska Alumni Association, Once a Cornhusker always a Cornhusker would seem to indicate that all Nebraska graduates are of the sort that remember their alma mater not only when football season rolls around, but also when the spring building period begins, during times of depression and shortage of funds. Of recent years there has arisen in the minds of Huskers a new conception of just what it means to be a graduate of the University of Nebraska, a conception founded in the cool hardness of bricks, mortar and steel, and labor of scores of men. And yet the guiding hand drawing forth this new conception has not been a Nebraska graduate, but one of our neighbors to the east . . . Donald L. Love; not a Cornhusker in the strict sense of the word, but a Cornhusker in spirit. A man who caught a glimpse of the untold possibilities of the University, saw it as a campus of great beauty, a school proud to bear the name of University of Nebraska . It remained for this man, an lowan by birth and education, to be the one to give to Nebraska and its state university the means of constructing buildings which it had long wanted and needed. In 1939 Don Love gave, in memory of his wife Julia, the necessary funds for the building of a women ' s dormitory unit. It was opened in the fall of 1940, named Julia Love Hall. Closely following came the death of Cornhusker Don Love. In his will he be- queathed to the University of Nebraska money for the building of a women ' s cooperative dormitory on Ag campus; most of that required for construction of a much needed library. Love Co-op is now in use; furnishings were contributed bv various campus organizations. The new library is rising daily. Through rain and snow workmen have hammered and riveted away. By the fall of 1942 Don Love ' s magnificent work will stand completed in its full glory. Each day undergraduates will saunter by, on that long trek from sorority row to Soc. They will see the memory of a great Cornhusker perpetuated in a tangible monument of stone and steel. And perhaps they too will be inspired with the ultimate in Husker spirit . . . hats off when the band plays the Scarlet and Cream , a memory of college not forgotten, but remembered in blueprints and the sharp clang of a man digging the foundations for a new building. ALWAYS A CORNHUSKER Digging for the .Sl60,000. Foods and iSulrilions liuilding was begun late in 1941. Plans are that it be opened next fall. W hen completed the new field house will contain various athletic offices and will close off the north end of Memorial Stadium.

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Fans faint, cheer, scream, sigh, gasp and lioller as Nebraska and Indiana fight on. Right, flute string in the Cornhusker ' s color- ful and talented Varsity Band.