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

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CONTENTS Here is your 1945 Bro vn and Gold. We have tried to make it a symbol, a reflection of you and your school as you were from November, ' 44 to June, ' 45 . . . Although -we know it ' s not a complete record, w e hope that it may serve to bring back the tempo, the feeling, the particular flavor w hich set this year at Western apart from all others . . . We feel, too, that only you and the dreams, thoughts, memories, w hich come to you each time you open it will make this annual complete . . . Yes, we w orked hard on it — but alw ays w ith the know ledge that our efforts, though not perfect by any means, w ould be appreciated . . . It ' s your book — enjoy it, have your friends and profs autograph it, laugh, twenty years from now , at what we w ore and sang and said — for that ' s the fun of looking back . . . Also, perhaps w hen you look at your friends, profs, favorite campus scenes, you ' ll recapture some of the dreams, the ideals you indulged in w hile here and you ' ll know that those ideals are true and right and worthw hile. The Staff

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1945 PORTAGE PU3L!C SCHOOLS CURRICULUM DEPARTMCMT wmmm. m mmMmm BROWNandGOLD Western Michigan College, Kalamazoo, Michigan Helen Schultz Business Manager Carlene Bagnall Editor

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DEDICATION This yearbook is dedicated to the Western f ello-ws who are not here — to those who fight and w ork so that they may return — and to those w ho can never return . . . We feel deeply in- debted to these men and can only hope that they may know our thoughts . . . Every time w e look at the flag flying high and free over the Hilltop, every time w e watch a blue star on their service flag turn into a gold one, every time we get letters from them or see their names in the Herald or Gazette, we can ' t help but feel that they are the true Western — that w e ' re only fight- ing a holding action here until the day they come back . . . We have tried to keep this small section of their w orld as normal as possible — tried to retain the things ve believe they w ant kept — to improve where improvements w ere needed — yet w e know that they have done the sacrificing . . . And w e know for a certainty that these fellow s, upon returning, vi ill make Western a happier Western — the w orld a better w orld. TEMPO OF THE TIMES COLLEGE ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS ADVERTISEMENTS