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

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vf Gt P V pc .V) vC BIFF JONES TO LEAVE UN FOR ARMY 0 Class of ' 44 Sees Ivy Day; Dream of Future Years BOMBS AND BLOSSOMS jr, FOR ENGLISHMEN S Lt THIS SPRING l P. fii««o Confident 0 Of Italian Victory Against Greeks 10. 000 s, omb ' P v April— that meant the first signs of spring. We went to our first Triad party, picnicked at Penn Woods and Phi Psi gulch; yes, it was spring all over the world and in Europe the Axis was on the march. Germany had sped through the Balkans and was then beating Greece into submission. As the corrupt Nazi minds planned new thrusts of military conquests, five-hundred Nebraska students were recognized as outstanding students in a democratic institution of free learning. One couldn ' t help but feel proud that we were able to continue our education. One more Nebraska tradition was still a mystery to the class of 1944, but on May 1 we saw Ivy Day. We heard the songs, saw the Ivy and Daisy chains, the planting of the ivy and the crowning of May Queen Jean Simmons surrounded by her court, which included Lois Christie and Jean Cowden. We saw the Mortar Boards masked and the Innocents tapped, and maybe some of us wondered if we could ever be one of the ' mighty. ' After having seen Ivy Day we became quite confident, now we knew about all Nebraska ' s traditions and the Cornhusker spirit, and we could come back in the fall to tell other freshmen about the mysteries of college life. We had learned more than a year ' s knowledge in a short nine months, all of which passed almost too fast for us to appreciate. But we were sophomores by then!! Hull .... World ( ' .ooperation Means Security

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7 .» : ' - ' ' -i ' i Bo v [Bid ' ' pteA o Vv lfl.« .o .t Cv lermans Blast, re Londoa HCE-TIME While the team donned ear-muffs and sweat shirts to scrim- mage in the snow, the rest of the world was even more in the throes of war— a great battle was raging in Africa and the English were still being warned of the danger of invasion, while here in the USA, Nebraska was warning Stanford that besides the team, the band, and Nebraska Sweetheart Beth Howley, hundreds of loyal rooters were on their way to Pasadena. The 21-13 defeat didn ' t seem to squelch UNs pride of the team for there was a tremendous rally and bonfire when the team retumed. The Rose Bowl fever subsided and once again UN students tumed to something else for entertainment. In January the world premier of Cheers for Miss Bishop was held in Lincoln. While this movie was being showered with praises, 10,000 bombs were rained on Plymouth, England. And at the end of January we ended our first semester struggling through exams and listening to Roosevelt being sworn in for his third term as president. We began the second semester scurrying to classes in snow- suits and slacks. We learned how it felt to brace oneself against the wind while walking from Sosh to Andrews. It was still cold at the end of March when England ' s famous comedian Gracie Fields appeared at the Coliseum. When she sang There ' ll Always Be An England ' very few of us realized how close England had come to not being a free country and that very night death was being rained dowri in hundreds of tons of bombs. Germans Blockade Iceland— read the headlines March 26. That was the night when two of us, yes, two men, managed to see Coed Follies, strictly feminine skits and curtain acts. ni A -i.

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ss After three months of vacation when we spent our time oj ear A y ' tf-3, OS ■A Fat w J playing and catching up on much needed sleep we came back J to University of Nebraska as sophomores. On September 1 8 we went to our first day of classes — we looked down our noses ] at the freshmen as we watched them trying to find Bessey Hall I or the library as we had done a year ago. Despite our not do- . . ing anything during the summer we still did not care to take time v » . , ( ot« ' to glance at the newspaper headlines. When we were packing T)ei « v AjJour trunks and saying the last good-byes we didn ' t know that the , , — A| B Nazis were claiming encirclement of Leningrad. H It was almost nine months from the Rose Bowl game to Hthe day when Biff Jones called his 1941 football team into suit. Remember those players: Tall, blond Al Zikmund; short, fast Dale Bradley, and others whose names we will never forget — Athey, Metheny, Partington? Now they are taking part in a different battle. While the footballers spent their afternoons at Memorial Stadium other NU students were settling down to their books or coking in the Crib with their friends. Mrs. Verna H. Boyles took over the reins as dean of women and other new pro- fessors were welcomed. Everything looked the same in Lincoln, on the world stage the USA was gradually moving into the spot- light of war. Early in October the Nazi hoards were only fifty miles from g Moscow. At sea the U-boat warfare was an American problem Toi J — two destroyers were sunk and our supply route to Russia was Toj threatened. In the Far East the political pot was nearly boiling over. Militaristic yellow dog Tojo became Jap premier, and on Oct Armistice day Churchill warned, The rest of the globe will soon - a »- A T o etK tb e m me war. Q v?? o 2 4 . ' ( y ' T ' f jv « Churchill . . . t ' ep -yATj, Won