University of Toledo - Blockhouse Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTS OF 1943-1944 March, 1944 Marth kept the students broke either throiif h hall eolleotions or the Red Cross auction. H. Allen Doni, Madeline Logan, Albertine Krohn and Sue Nicholson were among the most persis- tent of the collectors, grabbing the lapels of the victim with one hand and brandishing a milk- bottle under the nose with the other. The aiutions in the theatre rounded out the charitable activities with Don Mueller manning the gavel in order to sell everything from dates with Dick Greene and Dr. Southworth to the service of having a stooge occupy a freshman ' s orientation seat. One sorority paid 3.50 for the service of having Clyde Summers clean out the dirtiest locker. Many and varied were the items offered, such as Alford Archer ' s tomato juice, rhumba lessons from Jorge Jaramillo, a song by Mary Gilmartin, Prof. Hensel ' s ties, socks, and shoe stamp (he and dates with servicemen. likes to go barefoot ) April 1944 April was noted for showers and the blos- soming of a little social life on campus in the form of weekly Open Houses, dances held in the Student Union Thursday nights. People danced to the nuisic of Larry Muttart ' s record player, and those with stronger elbows enjoyed a glass of punch. Highest contributors were the MacKinnon Club, which invested over $50 in the Kappa ' s The week the W.A.A. took over, there was both ballroom and square dancing. The week the Pi Delts were hostesses, they provided two huge bowls of potato chips for refreshments, but none present believed they could just step up and help themselves. They just looked twice and said Mirage designed for Kuelmiann. April brought Hell Week for sororities, only they referred to it this year as Heck Week for fear of shocking younger accelerated students. There would be little point in making pledges forsake dates for a week this year, most of them having forgotten what a date is. Instead, actives confiscated all Sinatra records for a seven-day period. Pledge projects included everything from counterfeiting gas stamps to singing Mair- zy Doats under profs ' windows, hoping the shoes they threw would still have a little wear left in them. one-week laundry service and Shakce Partoyan s cake, and Sigma Beta Phi. which contributed $40. The auctions raised more than twice last year ' s quota of $100. 23

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HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTS OF 1943-1944 January, 1944 When there ' s snow on the ground but caps and gowns in the bookstore, it ' s a cinch it ' s Jan- uary and that mid-year coniniencement is in the offing. This month it was a varied group that climbed the steps to the stage to receive the prized sheep- skin. There were degrees granted in absentia (guess why), degrees granted cum laude. degrees granted to postgraduates. Ahogether there were thirty-six who finished the college chapter of their book of experience. Some, like Dale Millns and Philip Stiff, carried their degrees with them to other schools for further study. Graduating were Thelma Davis. Marvin Mitchell, Louis Martin. Stiff, and Millns, who were graduated cum laude, and Frederick Rack- er, John Berry, Paul Francke, Robert Leach, James Passino. Sylvia Mostov, Paul Whitman. Daniel Balog, Frederick Blanchong, Catherine Sloan, Daniel Halas. David Morris, James Morse, Edith Pursel, Helen Willard, Ora Johnson, Mon- ica Heaston, Lisa Herrmann, Agnes Robinette. Florence Wandtke. Lois Meyers, Frederick Fo- shag, Blair Haggerty Thomas Jarrett, Richard Wolkins, James Halloran, Lois Menne Knisely, David Yarnell. February, 1944 February was a red-letter month, the red let- ters reading alternately, Be My Valentine, Buy War Stamps Here, and Please Remit Immediately. Comic valentines were the most prevalent. One missive read: Although I ' d like to stick around And read the chem hook through ; The draft board sent a valentine. So, Prof dear, nuts to you! All through the month one could stop at the war stamp booth where Fearless Fred Nice- wonder sat lapping at the musilage on the stamps. For the purchase of a dollar ' s worth of stamps, one could attend the rally and hear Lil- lian Hellman, President Nash, and Larry Mut- tart. I Larry kept saying Get your fresh pea- nuts here. ) Biggest sales recorded occurred the day Gin- ny Peppers and Bob McCullough offered to hold the hand of the buyer briefly as they extended the war stamps. 22

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HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTS OF 1943-1944 May, 1944 May was the month when only time and five- hnek hills pinned on exam papers would tell. These were the days when students decided whether they looked well in hlack or not. and oftener than not it was the parents who wore the hlack; not caps and gowns, hut mourning for the tuition they gradually advanced for the pur- poses of higher education. One fellow was actually heard exclaiming with joy when he got his call from the draft hoard. When youre all cramming, I ' ll be scramming. jfltiW . ' June, 1944 Another student had an ingenious method for passing his tests. He borrowed a periscope from a marine veteran and had no trouble at all turn- ing in a highly satisfactory exam. May Day didn ' t quite attain its peacetime pro- portions this year. Most people thought that there was just a large group of people waiting for the bus. In charge of the coronation of the queen were Doris Nettleman. chairman of music; Alma Stoi- ber and Joan Bollinger, co-chairmen of dance; Lois Carter, chairman of posters and programs; Doris Schwalbe and Mary Catherine Kirk, co- chairmen of properties; Alice Griffith and Jean Schroeder. co-chairmen of costumes; Peggy O ' Donnell and Rosemary Carter, co-chairmen of Not that students tire of homework, but one can always tell when June rolls around. Sud- denly they stop singing The Prisoner ' s Song and break out with files and chisels. Grade cards are in students ' clutches, and sud- denly the smiles between faculty members and students turn into mere twitchings of the lower lip. The teaching staff intended giving vent to pent-up emotions in various ways. George Evans stated he intended to make a large bon- fire of the years term papers and dance around it singing Tess ' s Torch Song. Students have been picking ideal vacations for teachers. For Luther Scott they have select- ed a quiet hotel where none of the guests have heard the Twenty Word Age of Earth Story. June B. Winslows ideal vacation would be trav- eling from town to town, learning the speed of his automobile by comparing revolutions of the tire to the number of telephone poles observed. Some of the subtler students have merely been sending profs travel literature describing the beauty of Japan. • • pageantry; and Kathy Rudolph, chairman of publicity. 24