Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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' PHOTO: CHARLES STARRING 6-

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mmmmm IPPP ' n- ' — ■ nspamv JOHN C. HOEKJE, REGISTRAR. TO WHOM THE 1942 BROWN AND GOLD IS DEDICATED

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Campus from the Dramatic Arts hil Zke trees are barren, but the promise of spring is not far off. ?or onee. the road up the hill is vacant of students, and no cars are parked along the road. Zhe college sleeps. WKSTKKX stands high on a liill— its tall white columns look out over the tri ' c covered mid-west- ern city tliat is Ivahimazoo. In tlie dis- tance loom the towering smokestacks of tlie jjaper lactoiics and celery sirows in tlie ricii liiaek muck tields Ix ' low. Looking in 1 loin tlie west, on tln ' aitei y that connects the queen cities of the mid- west, the whole ])anorama comes into view: the 14 l)uildin.iis and 2 athletic fields wliere this mystical, yet commou- ])lace ])rofess of learninii: is carried on. whrri ' laui,diter is mingled with tears. and the artificialities with tlie realities of life. Here is Western. Here have conu and from liere have gone some 16,000 of the youtli of western and sontliwestern .Michigan. P ' rom the lakeside, dune-ridden cities that hordci- Lake lichigan they have come, from the gently-rolling plains of the state ' s in- terior, from the ever-lieightening liills of tlie North. From them they liave come — young, perhajis. and callow — and to thi ' iii the - have returned — young men and women, trained in the American way of life. This AVestei-n has done. Western then, is the pei ' soiiific ation of their young dreams, of the faith of tlie faculty, of the peoph- of Michigan and of their leaders, that through tliis school, the life of Michigan shall l)e l)ettered. In that faith is the essence of the Alma .Mater. -7