Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Only three more days, laments senior Dean Willis a, he prepares to leave for Fort Bragg and induction with fellow ERC students. Willi-, ranking member of the Octet for two years. was among the reservists called to duty in mid-Apnl. if 9 T T- Dr. Nevill Isbell. now a lieutenant- colonel in chemical warfare, is interviewed at air field. Lieutenant Rudolph Bryant of the Marine Air Corps is welcomed hack home by two old classmates. Much -decorated Brigadier - Gei Frank Armstrong tells students of aerial adventures over Nazi Germany.

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We did o+iA, sienaiitQ me i ALMOST every day men left Wake Forest In serve in the armed forces. Many were drafted, some were called up in reserves, and others just volunteered. Ten of our profes- sors — Allen, Archie. Berry, Black, Copeland, Githens, Hagood, I-hell. Parcell, and Weaver — exchanged their classrooms for service posts. And from the fighting fronts we heard of the exploits of other Wake Forest men — of Generals Frank Armstrong and Caleb Haynes, and of the many privates and seamen and pilots and marines who wcic earning their places on America ' s roll of honor. 2s

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u flut AUG AUU YES, THE WAR PLAYED havoc with convention and normalcy. It upset many of our oldest traditions. But we soon learned to adapt ourselves and found that in so doing we could still preserve most ol the hest features of the college life we loved — the friendly spirit of the Wake Forest campus, the cooperation ol faculty and students, the in- terest of our extracurricular activities. And we ourselves were actually much the same as in former years: we still moaned about 8:30 classes; we still opened our postoffice boxes with hated breath: we still enjoyed our midnight ft- Vn f£E?« to practice for a set s ( i , ti i i -I mli ' iil- -w cal VIM problems. Above, freshmen and John Garmany share : lailen lahle with coeds Franc and Gene Thompson. Belou. supervises one of his biologj iicmscupe- •s Winston Dr. Cocke labs. - ' : ■.; ..