University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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We, too, on the home front have been alert. An accelerated program to enable students to complete their college work in shorter time, and courses to prepare them better for service, both at the front and at home, have been inaugu- rated. In Red Cross activities and war bond drives we have also tried to do our part.

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DEDICATION To the men in the service—alumni, former students, and'our classmates—this 1942 MELETEAN is dedicated. In ever-increasing numbers they have left their occupations and the classroom to protect and preserve those ideals for which our country stands. Wherever they may be we hail them.

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Decreased enrollment, departure from the cam put of students to enter the service, an accelerated program have been handicaps in this eventful year of 1941-1942, but the MELETEAN has tried promptly to adfust its plans to changed conditions, and presents this volume with the hope that you will find in it an accurate and interesting story in picture and word of a busy year.