University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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A short time ago, in 1938, we were full of hopes, full of promises, full of ambitions. We were rosy cheeked smiling young men and women wearing green pins and arm bands. We sang Hail to Pitt and the Alma Mater. We were eager and determined. As the semesters rolled on, they tumbled us into the swirl of college life. The traditions of Pitt were our traditions. We studied hard, played wth activities, and were tapped to Cwens and Druids. For the next year and the next, our life made us confident. With this confidence we entered our senior year. Then came that December 7 and we were at war; the world that had encouraged us was now hostile and indifferent. Many of us felt that all we had worked for these years was for nothing. But was all our work for nothing . . . from the decay all about us don't our opportunities and incentives increase? The tragedy of the times broadens the demands made upon us. for it will take brains and men with the ability to use them to set this human society in order again. Perhaps we are fortunate to be living in an age which gives us the opportunity for the fullest use of our knowledge. We have not engaged in vain pursuits, neither have we lost opportunities nor have we wasted four years. The college life captured on the pages of this Owl is not an end but a beginning of a new and greater life for us. Ours will be a better tomorrow.

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To the hundreds of Pitt students and faculty in the armed forces maintaining a fight against all enemies to preserve the principles, welfare, and independence of the United States of America.