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

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THIS WAS ' 45 AT WESTERN . . . Babble Babble Gr jot Plymouth Rock, J lotta LaCarta do ' s rock . . , le lor lucure use in iiii b ih c . . . Now ' we Mmmin, gals, sunburns, and idle hours on the dock — essentials der read ■ One of la see why sailors love windy days on campus! . . . Mmmm, gals, sunburns, and idle hours on the dock to any houseparty! Cosy cramming by the Lib fireplace on a chilly day ... A famous English prof ' s famous shirt Sandburg wanted one just like it! . . . W for Western by the navy band . . .

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CANDIDLY SPEAKING . . . isiibated coeds but they can ' t part from tiyr ene — the P. and O. hoisting itself over the Hill ill session over the eternal subject — Men! . . . Spindlergals Christmas carol for the Vandercook gobs ... Funnies, fags, and femmes — must beS Sunday afternoon in the second floor smoker Meyers talk it over in the S.B. . . . Wartime substitute for a heavy date — food!

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LOOKING BACK . . . 1945 at Western . . . Remember the fads and fashions and songs and dances and expressions of this year? We still jitterbugged and danced the Gull Lake Gallop, but slow, starry-eyed waltzes held sway, too . . . We had fun with the Navy-learning its South Dakota Hop, Detroit Del- tois, and shall we say Trainees ' Tromp . . . Western will long remember the popularity of The Trolley Song since it seemed especially apropos to our own Believe-it-or- not-featured trolley. Notice No. 12 ' s worn metal on the S.B. juke box ' s marquee at left . . . And speaking of the S.B., the strains of T. Dorsey ' s Swing High, B. Goodman ' s Jam Session, Hamp ' s Boggie Woggie, and Bing ' s Ac Cent Tchu Ate the Positive will be forever associated for us Bron- choites with that smoke-filled, noisy, sailor and coed- infested mecca. The Soda Bar ... In spite of the war most of our old traditions, pledging, Saturday night dances, open houses, and teas, occupied the let down your hair part of the school week . . , However, ' Women ' s League open houses substituted for former Men ' s Union get-togethers, farewell cruises replaced frat formals, and girl doe lines took the place of fellow stag lines. Vet pins won over W ' s, wings occupied the frat pin ' s traditional place, and navy blues outnumbered flashy sport coats and coverts . . . Sloppy coed fashions remained ; •glamour toi s beini; rcsefNcd lor vveek-enils . . . Engraved sterling hair clasps decorated the coiffeurs of most coeds . . . saddle shoes came back . . . pea- coats,, official or otherwise, were worn by the Navy and the Navy ' s girls . . . Comfort came first with jeans, plaid shirts, sweatshirts, and pigtails ending with stubby ribbons or colorful fl owers ... A Good Man Nowadays Is Hard to Find, ' Rum and Coca-Cola, I ' ll Walk Alone, and I ' m a Little on the Lonely Side, expressed our sentiments beautifully . . . We called floors decks, meals chow, and loved to say Roger, Hit the Sack; we proclaimed One Meat- ball Spindler ' s cafeteria ' s oflicial slogan . . . We ploughed through the snow in stad ium boots or donned angora-topped anklets as beau-catchers . . . We wrote reams of V-mail, studied hard, and dreamed of whc-n Johnnie Comes Marching Home.