University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Cl Joe Comes home Forthcoming events cast a shadow. We knew when he left that he would return. We stood on the steps and waited, watching to see who would be first and then who would be next, wondering if it would be someone whom we knew. Far down the avenue we saw him coming. He paused at the gateposts and we stood breathlessly, visualizing the campus as it must look to him who had been gone. The broad front walk was still canopied with stately trees, we knew, and the gray stone walls of the administration building where we stood were, as always, thickly covered with vines. We wondered if to him it would be the same. $1111 ... •V i JtifcSwJ Yi He grew nearer and his shadow falling on the walk foretold a full future. He was home and his return meant taking on new things where old ones had left off. It meant the transformation of greatly modified college life back into the progressive security of normal campus activity. We were eager to show him what plans we had made for our postwar college. We wanted him to know that he was the determining factor in whatever we had visualized and that our plans constituted only a tentative foresight of things which depended on him for realization. It was his world and our world together, and his school and our school. That was the way we wanted it to be. He stood beside us on the steps and j watched together. We waited but the;; now and we knew that so.j p [. Page 2