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

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u UUill You Remember ... — ROM the castle-crowned height at Gimghoul, dominating the coastal plain that stretches east toward the ocean, to the close-knit block of Greek social houses on the west, lies the campus where we have worked and played during our years at Carolina. Giant oak trees and smaller maples shade the walks and wide lawns on which we have trudged and pedalled, lounged and loafed, on our way to classes, the Library, Graham Memorial, Kenan Stadium, and a coke at the Y . i - i; ' .JssS;C ' : v: vs •«»..J. ' : v r- - - P: - •- , : i !i:.

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CLHoobo took up too much of our time, we thought. What with cut probations, we all had to attend most of the time, but some of us never saw the inside of the Library — and wished that we had. RCTIVITIES, playground for the BMOCs, brought those with lots of ambition to Graham Memorial, where socializing, coke-drinking and rivalries seemed to take up more time than work. n b M L M D t n I N (j Pearl Harbor, we look back on a year when our boys T; departed en masse for the draft boards and enlistment offices, and Carolina be- 1 gan to look like Fort Bragg in miniature. QUTSTHNDINCj in their studies, the boys who make the honorary societies deserve more credit for their work than the rest of us, but surprisingly enough, you ' ll notice that few of them are intellectual fanatics. LIVING the Carolina way, with lots of laughs and fun, football games, dance week-ends, bull sessions, politics, beer and cokes, uniforms, Pre-Flight cadets, even a bit of studying now and then. INTERFRRTERNRL Hfe brought many of us into a little circle of snobbishness, others into close friendships which will last long after we leave Chapel Hill for a job or the Big Fight. NICjH I Lift sutfered little from the war, as Carolina men had a last fling with their buddies, coeds, and imports ; a far cry from the U. S. O. dances and officers ' clubs of the next few years. f-| I HLl I k- 0 emphasized as preliminary war training, built muscles and coordination, put us in shape for the days when speed and strength will mean the difference between life and death.

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Long after we leave Chapel Hill, will we remember the Con- federate soldier who never fired as the coeds walked by; giant Davie Poplar, ivy-covered and gnarled; the moon rising over the Bell Tower as we sauntered to- ward the Library to hit the books; the roaring, uniform-studded crowds which filled Kenan Sta- dium on a November Saturday; the tangled Arboretum, thick with muffled voices while the stars winked down.