Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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machines moved in, we didn’t realize that this was symbolic of a chain of new activities soon to move into the college curriculum. A few industrious people gathered around the long table in the Sem and sewed for British civilians suffering somewhere in England. Then more of us began to ply the needle and thread, and we knitted as well as stitched for French and British relief. December of ’41 came, and the Sem was too small to hold the many projects organized to meet the changed world He: three years ago the card tables were moved out of the Sem and sewing brought by the new year. Now, looking back, we see how far we’ve come since that January only two years ago. Each Fall we pledge a gradually increasing amount to World Fellowship and War Relief funds. We listen more seriously to instructions for air-raid drills, and then we go back to the dorm and use up some of our excess enthusiasm in transom decorations with non-transparent stuffs. We volunteer to scout for planes, sign up for first aid and air raid warden courses, motor corps, fire fighting and all the various departments of civilian defense. Some of us even commuted to Attleboro to learn the intricacies of home nursing before a course was started on campus. On Wednesdays we crowd into the Post Office for more than mail and hershey bars: we go there to buy little colored stamps that supply the modern minute man, as if by miracle, with the things he must have. Courses in mechanical drawing, Russian, Portuguese, and more advanced Physics, Nuff said The last stretch Best dressed for 43. Keeping the home fires burning In the scrap The Song of the Shirt