University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Scenes like these replaced classroom routine as OU stu- dents joined the army of volun- teers who kept Old Muddy out of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Over 900 students, faculty and staff members worked long hours to defeat the Missouri River. The lights burned all night as trucklood after truckload of workers went out from flood headquarters in the Student Lounge. University women also volun- teered their services and in one 12 hour period over 15,000 sandwiches were made in the home ec. lab. The dike workers were not to go hungry. It was three months before either of us could look a sandwich in the face. The crest came. The dikes held. The next Monday, school was back to normal. Part of the finished product Sleepers in the lounge increase in numbers 11