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

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THE TIMES... midnight bull sessions over can ' t ■we do something to help . . . anxious study of Wac and Cadet Nurse pamphlets . . . The great exodus from Spindler and off-campus houses to sailor-evacuated Walwood . . . Archie ' s candid observations in the Herald . . . Spring elections rejuvenated ■with mianpo-wer . . . riotous t weeds and plaid the fello ' ws sported after stowing a vay khaki and blue . . . Wedding rings that kept appearing ' til they ■were as common as frat pins . . . rumors of N.R.O.T.C. ' s next year — rumors of no Navy at all next year . . . Sniiles of the administration as it issued four final notices as to semesters or trimesters next fall . . . President ' s Roosevelt ' s death . . . the San Francisco conference . . . Western marines and Navy men coming back w ith their bars and gold braid before tours of duty in MwPacific waters and islands . . . Our few days of spring when all the gobs and gals who ' d been merely going together suddenly fell in love . . . warm evenings at the Lib . . . stopping on the ■way home to sowing in the Training school playground . . . the heavy scent of the first campus lilacs . . . music drifting through an open Ad building ■windo ' W . . . The special hope of Easter this year . . . the footsteps of the messengers of peace . . . false alarms of peace . . . tension in classrooms and ne-wspapers and on the radio . . . and finally — the biggest, the best, the most ■wonderful ne-ws of the year, of many years — V-E Day.

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TEMPO OF Forty-five ... a queer year at Western — normal yet not normal — signs of peace yet signs of -war . . . Remember the scintillation, the uncertainty of newspaper headlines? One day we won the w ar, the next day w e w ere pushed back . . . Remember too the return of a few vets to campus . . . rumors of more V-12 ' s . . . marines moving out of Spindler . . . gals moving back in . . . shortages of men, cigarettes, meat . . . The ' svide-eyedness of neyv freshmen . . . the big snow that fell one November night and remained ' til spring . . . w ind that sw ooped up the hill and rattled the whole Science building . . . the cellophane coating the campus wore one winter morning . . . Ski tracks on the hills . . . Miss Tamin ' s w ooUy headscarf, Mr. Garnau ' s cap w ith ear-flaps . . . The routine of classes and books in a topsy-turvy w orld . . . the comfort of pillars, hills, friends, ideas that stayed as they r MlUTARY EXPERTS SAVT [Next 3 Weeks to Decide [Length of Europe ' s War KUledin Pacific Areaj were . . . the clear notes of colors blown every day at 8 and 5 . . . the hup, dew, tre, haw of marching platoons . . . the sight of white caps bobbing along Oakland drive like double rows of marsh- mallows . . . the Navy ' s own brand of whistles — its casualness with coeds ... its turned-up peacoat collars and watch caps on snowy days . . . And remember the way we felt like laughing, shouting, crying and praying all at once when the news of liberated war prisoners came trickling through . . . Also — the sinking feeling of telegrams and long-distance ' phone calls . . . Christmas time and the Belgian bulge, Iwo Jima, Okinawa . . . digging deeper for that extra war bond . . .

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THE KALAM. 112TH YE. ' R--XO. 199. ASSOCIATED PRESS KALAMAZOO. ictorious After Once Being of Defeat Cdkpse of Germany Foreshadowed Last July by Officers ' Attempt to Kill Hitler, Full Mhtory of Great War Remah, fia!Ti ' ' an i dipam of noild conquest ha ' =( rom( to a ' I ' vi ' iinsr end -wjth the C(illaji«e of hp Reich » hich. Adolf -ftiPf ! ' i tp( v,s% to endutp thousand oAis Fi iM le; the Euiopean phase of the setond j?teat vat of fhp ' ' )•) n a Wat Uii( h is pstim;jted to have co ;t close to %) o lO II lA fion noO (oTio tullion) in more and the hves of m .- t 1 i i i OOiiOno men ' 1 1 v(- n{ iTeiman was loieshadowed last Tuh ' 1 1 afipt i as nid.de t ' l kill Hitiej and seize power hi whu ]] c riiciatoi said was a sniAil chque of ' foohsh, c n-iiin ' h stupid Getm sn otticeis Sign of pproachm8: Defeat Ih ' s f olt among Hi+lei ' s entouiag - comin?: almc-t a(tl o ear aret the sou lacke Heii ' jo Mu solmi had in ll- i thi- i pid ad aiii OS of RussiAn aim ' Os tie ill p I) ' Allied ainiies m ] a] and Ihp I ti)o n)( t diltKul ' cimphi n IS nn asion n ' 1 ot XriimiidN aii sugoesiP,! th t th appioachmjj a dehade ! » ai lookpd • the Wdi ' d g-iossl un lan piepi ' i io 1 hie tip urn« o ' i nnd