University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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Alma Mater On the banks of Lake Menomin Stands our Alma Mater true, With tower high and brilliant S 5 For her we'll dare and do. We'll sing her praises many, We'll glorify her name, And on throughout the years of time Our love for Stout proclaim. To the men and the women of The Stout Institute in 1943 the S on the college tower may well symbolize not only their college but also their loved nation: two words stand together: Stout, and Service. ln service to the nation the men and the women of Stout are glorifying their collegey the college is grateful, and would prepare them to do yet better work. The Stout institute is a college designated for the Naval, Marine, Air Force, and Army Reserve program: its students represent every branch of the armed forces. One group after another of Navy V-5 Aviation Cadets has taken the course in flight and ground instruction at the Menomonie Flying School and The Stout Institute. ln past years, many students of the college have made their solo flights from the Menomonie Field. One of these, Roger Habermanpf, found flying delightful, but not as thrilling as combat fighting in the Southern Pacific, where as Lieutenant Habermanvf of the Marines, he be- came Stout's first Ace. Within the first year of the war, both he and Lieutenant Scott Douglass' had been decorated for bravery. They were the first, as far as reports reaching the college showy but many more, in war zones afar, will bring honor to themselves and to their college. Not only by active participation in the work of the armed forces is Stout helping to win the war. Courses have been revised: new courses have been added. The men throng to such classes as Navigation, Meteorologyp the women are seeking instruction in first aid, in nutrition, in home nursing, in canteen work: many women are making surgical dressings. Since November, 1940, the shops and the laboratories of the college have been used during the night for defense classes. Men trained in these shops have gone to defense plants throughout the Middle West. The faculty members have given unstintingly to the war effort. Some have offered new courses: many hold positions of responsibility in the Citizens' Defense Corpsg many are chairmen of important committees. 7

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February l8, l943 To the Class of '43: V On your Commencement Day, as you begin your venturesome journey along uncharted trails, you will be leaving that epoch in your life which you Will recall thousands ot times with keen pleasure and delight. No other tour years will leave a stronger or more lasting impression. No similar period has done more to insure a fair degree of happiness, or to insure a deserved degree of success. This change in life's program comes at an extremely critical period. You face a severer test at this juncture in the character of your preparation than those of any like group having left us for several decades have faced. May you meet that test tearlessly and successfully. just now the picture ahead has a compelling force which almost ob- scures the panorama of the years just finished. However, some day it will do its work. Some day, in the years ahead, the faces and the personalities of those who autograph these pages will again bring to you in unclouded clearness the faces ot the friends here at Stout with whom you have worked and played, May these remembrances come always as inspirations, stimulat- ing greater successes, a fuller measure of happiness and contentment. No Wish was ever more sincerely expressed. BURTON E. NELSON 8