University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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DEAN HOUSE Thorough and efficient as Dean of Administration, but ne ' er too busy for a friendly greeting ... a splendid per- sonality . . . warm devotion to the University ... a harmon- ica and Oh Suzannah . . . Miss Sue and the Sheriff . . . as much a part of Carolina as 8:30 ' s and the Old Well. l oU B. J4c ouie L A WORD TO THE ,...,, ■ .»vl AM WRITING this greeting in November, 1941, to be read somewhere around June, 1942, at a time when circumstances are changing so fast that no one knows what will apply to conditions at that time, but I am sure of one thing; namely, that the Class of 1942 of the University of North Carolina will be as ready to face conditions as any group of men and women anywhere. I think this is a great thing and grows out of your character, intelligence, and spirit as a class. You have done good work individually to graduate in the excitement and interruptions attending your college generation. In this you have done the best possible service for your day and generation t o date, and your national government specifically requested this sort of growth and development from you. You have made individual friendships with your classmates and the faculty, and you have developed together a class spirit which will remain a permanent part of the richness of Carolina. Your University has gone forward through your growth as students and by your contribution to the texture of its life as you have represented it in your college generation. It is a happy result of our day of quick communi- cation and easy transportation that no class ever says farewell to alma mater with such finality as used to be the necessity. You will be in and out of Chapel Hill constantly. I think you will find many changes in the forms of things but you will find nothing changed for the worse in the spirit and purpose of the Uni- versity. I urge you to keep your friendships through the University alive and growing, and to consider yourselves always as a part of what is going on here. 24

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-? J , - T , ,.. C-iZ lAC S(:jth the work and responsibility of two men on his shoulders, Dr. Frank this year has served both his country, through his work on several important governmental commissions, and his state, by upholding the freedoms of thought and action on the University cam- pus. His sincerity, his courage, his strength, his boundless energy — these are why his name and that of the University have continued to grow and flourish, together. 23

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7 OR all the years ahead your history and the his- tory of your University will know you as members of one of the war classes — just as are known classes of ' 17 and ' 18. What a historic period your life has spanned ! Many of you are sons of the First World War . Some are from homes affected by the hectic prosperity of the twenties or scarred by the crash of Nineteen Twenty-nine, the worst, and the first, world-wide de- pression. During your youth an American president has broken precedent and for three terms led the attack of the nation upon the colossal problems of our age. The New Deal, the American Way, Social Security, and the Four Freedoms are the familiar terms of a world-wide and blitz speed drama. You have seen the quiet grooves and pleasant ways of Chapel Hill gradually transformed with student pilots overhead, naval and military units on the fields. physical fitness programs for all, acceleration , speed-up , civilian defense, and post-war planning — until Alma Mater has become the home front . Now you go out to your duties — combat, supply, or civilian service; and Carolina goes with you. In your youthful vigor, in your civic conscience, in your mental alertness, in your liberal culture she will live and breathe all over the world and throughout our nation ' s historic destiny. And then when the victory comes, she will stand with you at the polls and in the peace conference, and she will pray that ' you may have learned something here which shall enable you so to feel and think and act that the class of 1967, your sons, will be known as a great class but need not be called, once again, a war class . With pride and affection your University grips your good right hand just before you go out upon the field ! Francis . uSradirn 9 OF 1942 DEAN BRADSHAW As Dean of Students, he has handled well the difficult job of easing friction between faculty and students . . . quiet and soft-spoken ... a keen, penetrating mind . . . anxious to help in solving problems, large or small ... a philoso- pher, but always a man . . . highly respected by students and faculty alike. 25