library ate Teachers College f annvflfe. Virginia. HAPPY SUMMER VACATION
The Rotunda
VOLUME XXIV
CONGRATULATIONS. SENIORS
FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945
No. 30
120 Receive Degrees at 61st Commencement *
"Have Faith for Today" Hollingsworth Declares •"Have a personal faith for today." said the Rev. A. H. HollingsWorth. pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke at the baccalaureate service yesterday, June 3, at 8 o'clock in the college auditorium. ' In his message to the graduating class of 1945, Mr. Hollingsworth used as his trxt Mark 11:22, "Have faith in God". He said. "These words were spoken by Jesus at the beginning of the most crucial week in his life. It was to be a we k tilled with scorn, ha•tred. treachery, loneliness, and death. He faced these experien-
Colonnade Rating 'Zehmer,Moling, Sheffey Speak Received Recently In Graduating Exercise Today Honor Grads Announced
Short Story Contest To End In October
Table Hostesses Named by Adams
"The function of education is to The Colonnade, S. T. C. quarassist the student in masti ring pterly magazine, which is annually the tools of learning—the arts of judged by the All American Magreading, writing and figuring—to azine Critical Service of the National Scholastic Press Associagive them certain facts about the Betty Adams, newly-elected dinnature of the physical world in tion, was recently awarded the ing hall hostess for the coming which he must live—to put him rating of First Class—Excellent. year, has announced the names in touch with best thoughts and The publications are judged for of those students who will serve ideas of man. and, finally to help qualities of fiction and features, as hostesses for the session 1945him develop good habits of thinkeditorials, critical writing, essays, 46. ing and working and of using his poetry, humor, general art work— They are Gwen Acklss. Nancy imagination," Dean George B. illustrations, photography, and Adams, Maria Addleman, Grace Zehmer, Dean of the Summer cover—editing, makeup, and meAnderson. Edith Apperson, MaSchool at the University of Virchanics. These rating are given1 rion Atkinson. Sara Ballard. Anne ginia, stated in his message to in order to aid future publica- i Raymond Holliday French, Qray Bed. Lucille Bell, Hilda Benthe graduating class this morntions, and It is not a contest. In.tt. Sara Bennett. Betty Bibb. classman to whom the seniors ing. For the past two years, thei | Sutton Biand, Beverly Boone. Lois dedicated their annual, the Colonnade has held the rating of , .1 M m.i ii Recognized . Done, Betty Bowles, Kitty Sue 1945 Virginian. Continuing, the University Dean First Class—Excellent. . Endgforth, Rachael Brugh. Mary remarked, "I wish to emphasize All students are asked to enter | Stewart Buford, Jeanne Button. the fact that I have always had DEAN GEORGE B. /I IIMl It the short story contest which will r Carbonell, Mae Caldwell, and still have a profound respect last through the summer and end Anne Carter. Pat Carter. Mary for the philosophy of education in October. At the conclusion of, Armistead Catlett. Anne Charlton. that has permeated thought and the contest, the winners will be Ml I *>•*/■ ligtM V.iii'11 Lorene Claiborne, Page Cook, and V7 VI action at the Farmville State Colannounced, and the winning sto"UUttlCS ill II : Alma Crawley. lege under President Jarman s ries will be printed in the fall Also, Patsy Dale, Betsy Dunn. administration. Dr. Jarman and Marilyn Bell, editor of the an- Issue of the Colonnade. Martha Russell East. Margaret nual, dedicated on May 28 the his able faculty have had no mean conception of the function E.let. Jean E.more Peggy Fink, 1945 Virginian to Mr. kaymond Jg6 a^ Nancy WnTtehais! Ev.lyn Hair. Janice Halstead. Holliday French, who Is an asso- '£ £ceSly rotatedI edltoMn. °ul of a class of 120 *nlors. of education and the responsibilAnne Hauser. Anna Headlee. Sa-.clate professor 0f chemistry and JlfTS t,uart o3^Iv maSne sixty-nine have signed contracts ity that this institution has torah Hodges, Sue Hundley, Ruth has been the adviser to the senior I™ I . 'ly ""«" ne' to teach next year. ward those who come here for Jones. Kitty Kearsley. Barbara class since the 1945 graduating' S*** IMUe u"d£' tlle *22Virginia Lee Abemathv will nourishment and light. And I Join K.ll«m. Heidi Lacy. Betty Lee, class entered S. T. C. in 1941. ' ** °' «"! new £* was a,8tn- u^bto HoptW£l£S Agee a,"mnaP' faCUlty and lne iMdU" Bettv Lewis Margaret Lohr Ma™ ■ „ .i . buted to the students last week. „ ' , «upeweii, ijoreen Agee, 8 . . The dedication reads. •'College ^ magazlne Jean Akers. Mar- nlzln tne magaz ne was was dedicated to Cumberland; non Lotts, Mary Anne Loving. davs dedicated to unsvilleMargaret R«'rlr «,h> 1P « l""M contributions rer„iipd best th'rnush the \T* Grace Loyd. Sue McCorkle. Betty mem 1^1 "? oi !?^S- £8t J*™!.™ the senior class with these words. fSSSi^. .".?*!"- .?aIks_da.!e',tnal th«t. Pr~bUnt h.« ™«ri„ P»™ M J ' » ^'i, ' *?" °^ ™™**- To each of ^To the Ln oTcia^s of 1945 who Clarksville: Marilyn Bell, Suffolk:' I ancJ lsPresid«nl Jarman haf. madc Page Manson. Barbara Agnes Millner. Bet*,. different hit , f Bettv Blackweil btuai StnaiKvilie M. making to Farmville." t,V, ipn(1, arp ty Minetree MonUom.uenas are amerent.bat "WHWM, trviije. Manave ivtn s0 much we w|sn to Condition of World t0 a e Wh m & pUin ery, and Imogen Moore " °f " there ,S °"Somehow ° dedicate this edition of the Colon- |JJ *£• Betsy *"■ Caldwell. "£?. * ™ ,, O,JU IIIUBPI rawic, ade " County; Amhcrst; "On the well-founded assumpwe haVP in common n Also. Barbara Lee Myers. Ann ; this one has caught the spirit of ' Mary William Calvert, Winches- tion tnat vou. the graduates of Nichols, Cab Overbey. Dorothy, Farmville and exemplified It in1 ter; Lena Claiborne, Clarksville; 11945. have received here under the MEV. A. II HOLLINGSWORTH Owen. Kitty Parham. Mabel Park, his every action. '/1C C G U 1 Alice Lee Davis. Holland; Nancy j aegis of your Alma litter this ... . , B -ttie Parrish. Jean Pritchett, Never too busy when we need; *) iMMimn* oCllOOl , Jane Dickinson, Martinsville; Ma- broad training of which I have ces with these words spoken to Doris Rose Ramsey. Shirley I ry Louise Dondley, Norfolk Coun- i)een speaking and are looking upHia disciples. Have faith in God\ Reave8i Judy ,^ick Pats Saun. him. always there greeting us ty; Sarah Lee East, Martinsville; •on tnis commencement occasion that same cheery smile, he!j\* llnPti IlinP 18 TnU sublun, utterance was made ders j^ Savedge Prances Sew- with will be remembered long for his1 iu vf|JCII JUUC JLU I Alice Feitig, Henrico County, and ln tnc traditional but nonetheless so quietly that in the mad rush of ard Ann 8hufrlebarger, Eloise generosity B |Katherine Grizzard. Emporia. jtrue sense as the gateway to opand thoughtf ulness. I StanceU Ann Taylor Rpbecca of Also Eleanor Hall, Warsaw; j portunity to put to the test the ES? dt " B""" these qu Summer School will open for the forgot Aftei His rtn«,h death i, as Zv they Tornllnsori| ^ Tucker. Gene we consider first in a friend, the first session June 18 and "w'ilT end R-osa'ie Anne Hamlln, Norfolk! theories, hopes, ambitions, and ■ought for some means for their ^^^ Lucllle Upshur. Martha staff wishes to dedicate the 1945 July 21. The second session will County; Virginia Alice Hall. Al- Ideas about life that you now own lives, they recovered this Webb West. Mary Virginian to our own "Charlie pen July 23 and will close Au- tavista; Nancy Harrell, Winches-' cherish. I want to talk to you Chari0tte 0 great truth and by its power they Wyatt and Connle YoUng. Continued on Page 3 |gust 25 according to an an- ler: Martha Higgins, Norfolk 1 briefly about the kind of world lived. . nouncement made this week by S. County; Martha Hite, West Point; that you must live in. I want to "Faith in God provides a wea-! Q » O £* /"*» JI IM Holton Jr .Caroline Huddle, Chesterfield call your attention to some rather pon for winning the battle of life". Miss Lois R. mOm, Cleveland ISrnlthfl County: the minister said. "We need not OOptlS d&y COWfiTttM, IrOOUOye Heights. Ohio, will 'teach geo-l eld: Lulle Theresa Hutt, thl world that you face and, be afraid of the struggle that lies graphy replacing Miss Grace Mo-' Montross; Mary Anne Jarratt, I equally Important, about the ahead A commencement speaker ran who will not be here for the Hopewell; Fay Byrd Johnson, Ha- world that faces you." once told the graduates they were waii summer session : Beatrice Jones. Front Roy-, The facts which the speaker going out into a world of upheavBETTY BIBB A three weeks workshop course '«>= Edith Leach Jones, Whaley-1 mentioned are chaos, rapidity of al. He was speaking in the year on the natural resources of Vir- vllle: Elizabeth Ann Jones. Win- change, and the complex! 1835. Each generation faces its "Just wateh us fly. but we'll get, gratulatlons from everybody and glnia will be taught by A. A. Chester: Rachael Joyner Norview; complication of the world. own peculiar problems. Through by. with memories of you. We'll everywhere, and knocking themIsable K Personal Oblitation "• Midlothian; and Georfaith we win the battle for a bet- need you ^ ,ove , ^^ selves out over the whole thing. Wingo. superintendent of Con- gia Knight, Wise. "If the world of the futui This is a time when we. the! *frvation Studies. State Board of ter world. Faith has a forward 0< -451" Also Lucy Lingo, Pungnfague: to become H better place in winch sophomores, pause and survey Educatlon. look. It enables us to struggle Helen McGuire, Hopewell; Eliza- to live, you must help make it In Wliat other season of the year these "girls of the moment" with addition to these courses for human betterment, and gn alei social ideals. This is no shallow could stimulate such poetic spirits pride and envy, with love and ad- mentioned above, the usual cours- beth McLean, Kenbrldge; Ann so," the educator told the mdtnl Continued on Page * Continued on Page 4 optimism It is by this method 'rora the sophomore class to the miration. We have watched them, es will be offered also. Graduation of seniors will be that the great advances in his- senior class except graduation? worked with them, accepted their tory have come." i What other season of the year wisdom and help, and now we held ln the large auditorium FriThe Presbyterian pastor con- could bring more tears and laugh- know we'll have to take their day night. August 24. eluded, "Faith in God vindicates,ter simultaneously? It is a time places . . .. that we'll have a new itaelf in experience By faith the when memories and hopes rush sister class that will look up to us faltering disciples who heard together and produce a state of as we have to them. It's a funny Jesus speak were able to keep happiness and excitement that feeling we get as we see the famMAKGAKKT WILSON their rendezvous with life. Faith!*11' be lon8 remembered. The iliar faces talking to Charlie Hop. "Manufacture a feature" they ents In the unique way of S. T. C. gives us the conviction of our ln-1 long-worked-for. talked-of. and eating breakfast in the tearoom, Eight students in advanced dividual worth A life lived longed-for moment has arrived or marching sedately (?) down the shorthand passed recently the of- said. "About anything" they add-1 Those who are spending theil through faith In God Is both dur- for our sisters, the Seniors of '45. aisle on Friday Chapel day, then flcial 140 word Gregg Speed Test, ed, maddeningly. So, unhappily, leisure hours—or should we mi running up to take off the famil- according to an announcement | we retired to a secluded corner, say hours?—on the roof, are a lltable and deathless Faith gives the Freshmen of '41. There's a tiny bit of anxiety iar cap and gown, to hang them made this week ln the business.and considered the possibilities tie uneasy about then home reUS courage to live in the mood of ISurprisingly enough, that sm.i:i ception. You see. there's a upon that enters every senior's mind as in our closets no more. They're department. Continued on Page 3 They are Betty Jane Austin,, voice—so often uncooperative on that tin last time one chocolate the big day draws hoursly closer. each so individual, yet "all-to. . . Will I pass those piperoos Mr. gether" in standing for the things Roanoke; Alice Davis, Phenlx^such occasions—whispered loudly brown S. T. C.'er went home, her Mac and Dr. Simp give? Will the we love and will miss. These sen- Betsy Dillard, Draper, North Ca- something on the order of "You own father waltzed right by her tires hold out for Mother and iors have been more than sisters, rollna; Mary Elizabeth Fuqua. feeble-minded so-and-so — ifs at the bus without recofnlsini Dad to get up here and then get more than classmates, more than Cape Charles; Katherine Lynch, spring! You know — birds and her Besides, Dr Moore ha i back home? Did I get enough an- teammates ... in their midst we Lebanon; Anne Mapp, Bridge- bees and commencement, and body a little worried of ei At the chapel service held Fri- nouncements? Can my little sister have found friends—friends in the town; Daphne Plttman. Ports- home, and feather beds and stuff.! not to the point of joining the day, May 25, a special program manage four extra days up here true sense of the word. Never let mouth; and Anne Summers, Wake up and look around!" So Lily-Whiles, but—well. Just I lit Of music was given. This was the without going mad? It is going to it be said that a sophomore is Hampden - Sydney. These stu- j we looked around and, my good- tie worried. last chapel program which the rain the entire time we want to mushy, but do let us be sentimen- dents received official certificates ness. such doings on—as grandYessir. everybody bJM something seniors attended as a class. play round on the beach? When tal and sincere for Just a tiny and would have received pins In mother used to say. 8. T. C. Is on her mind, even if it's nothing Lucy Messick lead the devotion- am I ever, ever gonna catch up on minute while we say the old. old pre-war days. Twenty students really buzzing, right along with more pressing than th age - old als, after which Connie Ozlin all the girls I'm leaving behind? tribute to a new graduating class passed the official 120 word test (the bees. Those of us who are not |decision—Van Johnson and Shanplayed "Claire de la Lune" and an This sort of brainfood keeps our "Congratulations for having done and took the test at 140 words occupied In what we fondly be-inon's. or doing VhOl encore Esther Shevick sang "One illustrious seniors busy, as they so well thus far in your life, and per minute. Illeve to be packing, smirking at should have done las! week As Fine Day" from the opera Ma-1 scurry hither and yon and back may health, happiness, and prosBarbara Kellam, Norfolk, who the sun, are still writing desper- of old, it usually turns out to be dame Butterfly" by Puccini. She a g a i n, autographing annuals, perity be yours always"—We'll be is taking shorthand this year for ate letters homo about who's OBBI* guess which. also sang the more recent song J packing, eating, joking, teasing, seeing you around! the first time passed the 100 word ing to get us—WHEW! Others of And now. we haw tin. Uttlt "Dream". I getting flowers, presents, and conClass of '47 official test. course, are busy entertaining parContinued on Page 4
Editor Dedicates Annual to French
School Contracts
To Senior Sisters of 1945
8 Advanced Students Pass Shorthand Test
Music Program Held In Chapel May 25
Sun Bathing Writing Home, Packing Cause Last Days to he Busy Days
THE ROTUNDA, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945
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boxes and trunks and saying "good-bye" to a place that has been more than a home to us. Graduation is having another class take our exalted positions as seniors. Graduation is the leaving of familiar bells and schedules, of familiar places and faces. Graduation is that final, filled handful of days we have just completed. This is graduation. The class of 1945 Eatabli.hed November 26. MM published each Wednesday evening of the college has left the shteltering halls of Farmville. year except during holidays and examination per- We are graduated. iods, by the students of Slate Teachers College. We are now alumnae.—J. W. R. Farmville. Virginia.
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Familiar Quotations
Since this is the last issue of hit a snag, the Rotunda which will appear I Mary "Mimosi Flombosi" WatBetween geography papers, last this session, most of the feature!kins: I wasn't combing my hair. minute cramming, exams and material is about the seniors of Ann Masloff; Hail Com-e-rad. more exams, most of the men seem Ophelia The" Whittle: Id be to have been scared away. Don't "45. Printed below are names, nil right if il just wasn't for my blame them one bit myself! There nicknames, and familiar quota- legs. is something awfully depressing tions of some of the members of Nancy "Possle" Hurrell; I wish about this last week of torture. th l SS H elen 'Mother" Wilson; The > :illy Robertson: E-lise!! However, some few braved the crowning climax. 1 elements and presto! Queeky and Jane "Ruffln" Ruffln: For the Jean CarUr "Smltty" Smith; You don't say. Marguerite came through with the ' love of Mike. real thing. These two alternate be-j Fay "Byrd" Johnson; Dar-ling Ann Cherry" B'alr: I've got Office: Student Building Phone 533. Box 16* what it take*. tween flashing smiles and dla- I'm so excited. Printers: The Farmvllle Herald Pat "Plem" Maddox. Oh I I c.n'l monds. So much excitement at Sara "Pip" Moling; IX>VE that. Represented for national advertising by Natlona. this time. What a graduation pres-' understand her. Advertising Service. Inc.. college publishers repreent! Marilyn "Meb" Bell; It's all in Margaret Pogue "Poguey" Massentative. 420 Madison Ave.. New York. N. Y. sey: okay, be hard to get along , ._ ., .!_, L. ■-■ your mind,^ A. F... with. And what's this we hear about . garah Charlle East Member Virginia Intercollegiate Pre— Association During the graduating exercises this Bracie—a diamond, and June (the Sn n n Betsy Bets" Caldwell; I Just Entered as second class matter March 1, 1921 In tht morning, another senior class received de- month of course). Just add two ' Ann >.Jarratr Jarratt;' don't feel like it. M Post Office of Farmville. Virginia, under act of grees from this college. Farmville State and two together and you 11 get a Yes or Wynne Mary Walker "Legs" Watts; Oh March 8. 1934. | Lucy'.Mrs sharpe" Manson1 go on now i there goes that inTeachers College has now become for them pretty nice conclusion. Member Mary Ann Jarratte has at last Sharpe; Dan's out playing poker, f"!^.£"£?>• • their Alma Mater. Once again Farmville's received that long awaited letter, so there go my summer shoes. ; "o'j* "ow Jones' Whatcha Associated Golk>&iato Presv daughters will go out into the world, many In the excitement she almost for-' Jane "Knap" Knapton: For say^ Qeorge got to read it! Now. just what does crying in the beer. Marian Johnnj Johnson, n Distributor of of them to train the youth of our land. that nrove' I Elsie Thompson; Me 'n Marilyn, everything. Having lived together during four GdlnfSkiloPiiSGsl * P I Harriett* "Hackie" Moore: I t 11 . !' «■» ** *»1 tha! dl*ustAnd did you hear about Keith? you ing. years of college, these students have shard vmi but ,t.s so cold Eleanor "Elite" Wade; that Virginia Eubank Treakle Editor-in-Chief in joys and sorrows. They have come to|^* » ™?St TJ?oX _ Virginia "Gin T" Pu.len; its Kives me a LARGE charge. Shirley Penn Slaughter Managing Editor M rtha Tat-' Higglns: Call a know what it means to live with other girls comes every afternoon and all day here to stay Ruth Downs Brooks Business Manager who live for the same things, who are in- on Saturday) so seemingly the Catherine "Queekle Trower" meeting of "Us Incorporated", only way to keep him at Hamp- ;Trower; I'm supremely happy Margaret "Teddy" Bern: What's Mary Helmer News Editor terested in the same things, and who plan den-Sydney was to restrict him. Bobbie "Peepsie" Scott; Ophs. I going on in here? Betty Dcuel Cock Feature Editor to teach with service as their prime goal. It certainly is hard to keep up I , g # ( Betty Ellis Sports Editor The seniors will accept the challenge h s Evelyn Grizzard Social Editor given them by the commencement speakers. Dorothy Turley Advertising Manager They know that the road ahead is not an variety? Betty seems to have made *■»•/• wr fi >iw Mary Stewart Buford Circulation Manager quite an impression because he easy one, yet they are aware of the preparaMary Anne Loving Photographer knocked himself out getting back Dorothy Oelston Typing Manager tion which they have had to prepare them Sunday night. FAY BYRD JOHNSON for this journey of life. It's mighty good to have DickyEditorial Assistants Each senior who leaves this when there was an tvery Day la saying good-bye to the daughters of Bird back again, isn't it Margaret? June has a vast number of re- Club at Shannon's—when we acBetty Lewis, chief editorial assistant; Ruth Jones, 'whom Farmville is proud, we should like How in this world do people get miniscences and each senior who tually had dates in the afterMartha Fiances Morrison, Virginia Tindall, from a Rotunda of another year, j through exams with so much ex- tries to tell of these remlni noons. Those were the happy Betty Woodward, Betty Bibb, Margaret Wilson, to'quote _, . . . .... Icitement? days—the days of carefree fun. has vastly different accounts. As ' This morning they lay waiting in the Helene Griffin. Carmen Low, Sue Hundley, Last year we were Juniors. We And now the time for departure 1lhese four years draw *> a d"M Mary Harrison, Rebecca Tomlinson, Nancy peaceful harbor of college, but now they is drawing nigh. During the past tnese are some of mine Wp weri' came to know the joys of living Magner. Ann Buck, Frances Treakle, Kather- have weighed the anchor and are setting week, school has been like a mad- the usual verdant freshmen and in suites. We went to movies at we dld and ine Maddox, Dorothy Overcash, Lois Lloyd thought about the night by merely signing up. forth on the rough and dangerous sea of house—everyone trying to study a ■ Sheppard, Charlotte Grizzard, Mildred Altlce, minute or two between signing "s"81 things freshmen do and Everybody danced to a Vic on Mary Rattray, Anna Headlee, Mary Franklin life. With four years of experience to guide annuals and throwing dirty think about. Our first year was second floor junior on Saturday Woodward. Fay Johnson, Virginia Dale, Vir- them, with the association with those more | clothes into trunks. Thus, it Is perhaps different only in this re- nights. We had an increasing love and devotion to Charlie Hop. ginia Radogna. Lelia Holloway, Jane Waring learned than they to serve as a rudder, they *iUl *•»»? «" eyes that we bid spect - on December adieu to the "Class of '45". No one j year, war was declared. The SunKlh, was a wonderful presiRuffin. will take the ship to another harbor in can take your places, but to you' day afternoon was quiet when dent, and we became a solid suddenly someone screamed, "We class — sticking together through Business Assistants safety. May good luck and smooth seas go we wish the best of everything. have declared war on Japan." thick and thin. We went to Connie Young, Jean Elmore, Hilda Abernathy. with them." There was one of us whose broth- Pickett dances—we dated boys of Norma Soyars, Esther George, Lorena Evans. er was at Pearl Harbor. She be- the 78th—we tearfully but proudKathryn Stubbiefleld, Susan Fansler, Ruth came almost hysterical—we tried ly walked underneath the arch of Lowe. Lynn Sprye, Martha Dioste, Louise to help in the Ineffectual way peo- caps for the first time to the Alma ple try to help at such times. War Mater. We couldn't believe we Blane, Bonnie Curtis. SARA BIRD WILLIAMS had come to us. were seniors—we. the underclassAnd - so - another school year There were battles in the Paci- men became seniors. By Mildred Altice MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945 Our senior year was saddened This has been truly an eventful college ends, and with its completion fic but there were equally ferocomes the end of another years' session. When the college opened for class- program of our own Young Wom- cious ones here with the well- by the death of our beloved Miss Mary. We welcomed our new known weapon—water. es, the Dumbarton Oaks Conference had ens Christian Association. The Our sophomore year was high- dean and have come to love and commenced drafting a temporary charter activities in which the Y. W. C. A. lighted by Budge's interpretation' respect her. We have loved senhas engaged this year have not of the Black Hawk and also the ior chaprls. We came to know lor international organization which was to
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Our Farewell To The Seniors
2^^^r^ sZZ i£ Reminiscent Seniors Discuss
4 Bnej Years at rarmvule
Gleanings
We Are Graduated; We Are Now Alumnae
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Now it's all over. Another class has In the European war the British and Amer-I't'es but have all been presented' Jm our producUon ^a circus Joys of Hackles Ukelele playinggraduated from Farmville State Teachers ican armies were experiencing defeat at *"£ °™ ™™J*,££™l 'I?,'! stunt. The incrssant bridge games of the famous singers who lived each College. And it is a class that we have been Aachen. On November 7th, the American p^onat iffe ITmoTm Zn^l±^Lln Orange's room were participated passing minutes because we knew particularly interested in because it has people, after a strenuous wartime political secrated and enriching religious in by us all Those were the last we have been shattered, pamper• » » i . atmosphere. All of the activities been our class. Continued on Page 4 campaign in typical American fashion, and ^ were made Wllh Ms days of civUian Hampden-Sydney For four years we have worked toward elected a man to the office of President for! in mind. The motto for the year. and looked forward to today, and now the fourth consecutive time. Shortly there- j "Pacing Today with the Living «. n J n if ii i.u Christ" was chosen to help us that it is here, we are filled with a mingled alter Cordell Hull, the great statesman, was tnrough ^ days o{ world suf. feeling of joy and sorrow; joy because we compelled by illness to resign, and the ferlng with the ever present love have successfully crossed the hurdles of State Department was modified and re- of God befor(' "s to whlcn to , anchor our faith, college and are on the eve of a new life, , . , . Prom the very first day of and sorrow because it means parting from organized. school when Y girls assisted the those we have learned to love. At Christmas came the German off en- incoming freshmen though the We worked and played through four sive and a brief period of depression. Early ^fadlti?"al Christmas celebrae * , * , tlons, through Religious Emphasyears, and graduation was just another ln 1945 the Philippines were liberated, and jS week, through the election of tar-distant day in the future, a something the President, after a simple inauguration,' the new Y. w. c A. officers and that happened to other classes, but wasn't "traveled to Yalta to attend a meeting of the their selection of the new cabinet, ours yet. Then, all of a sudden, it was up- chiefs of state of the three big allies. The the Young Women's Christian Association has wanted each student on us and our remaining weeks at Farm- island of Iwo Jima was conquered after one to realize and to feel that this ville could be counted on the fingers of of the fiercest battles in Marine history. was her own Y. W. C. A. The Y OIM hand. We had our Senior Chapel, when Plans were made at the Yalta meeting for a has attempted to help each girl to find her rightful place among her we all wept through our farewell songs. conference to be held at San Francisco to fellow students. We had our Senior Sing when we willed to draft the final charter for world organizaThe program for this entire year underelaaaman i little of what was a part tion. Okinawa, an island 350 miles from the has been carried out by a most capable and efficient cabinet. It Of 01 so that there would be some link with Japanese mainland, was attacked early in is to them we owe the success of our Alma Mater. We had parties given for each event. But even the most April. carefully made plans would us, and each thing took on a new and more • • * • not have given this degree of sucpoignant meaning because it was a "last." America's world-famous and beloved cess had it not been for those of We had our class day, our daisy chain, our you who shouldered your individPresident died just before the San Francis- ual responsibilities in accepting lantern parade, and now we are graduco Conference convened to plan for lasting the challenge of a more beautiful ated. peace. While the nation mourned his pass- life by sharing it with others. What is graduation? It is more than ing, Germany unconditionally surrendered To those of you who will be a the mart receiving of a small square of on May 9 to the three great allies. The ses- PHI of our campus Y next year and to those of you who will not paper. Graduation is the close of another sion ends with the renewed effort in the war return, won't you remember that chapter in our life book; it is the end of against Japan. the success you have achieved and will achieve has been brought • • • • one phase and the beginning of another. about "Not by might, nor by powGraduation is packing up and leaving for What grave crises will take place in the er, but by My spirit, saith the the last time, packing four full years in coming session of 1945-1946? Lord of Hosts" Zach. 4.6.
SENIOR OF '45
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THE ROTUNDA, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945
Jarman Awards 120 Degrees At Commencement Program One hundred and twenty sen- Prosise, Wilson; Virginia Tuntors were awarded degrees this stall Pullen, Danville; Virginia morning by President J. L. Jar- Katherine Radogna. Purdy: Mil- j man at the sixty-first commence- dred Lorraine Raiford, Ivor; Sal-1 ment exercises at State Teachers ly Mildred Robertson, Lynchburg; ' College. Mary Walton Rucker, Lynchburg: They are Virginia Lee Aber- Jane Waring Ruffin. Holdcroft; nathy. Cochran; Loreen Kathryn Edith Smith Sanford. Richmond; ! Agee.Parmville; Jean Grey Akers.: Helen Dunton Savage, Exmore: ' Gladstone; Margaret Edmunds, Barbara Ann Scott. Franklin; Barksdalc. Java. Margaret Eliza- Josephine Ayers ShafTner. Hamp-1 beth Bear. Churchville: Josephine'ton; Margaret Louise Shanks, St. Beatty. Ivanhoe, North Carolina; Charles; Lucy Manson Sharpe. Marilyn Bernice Bell, Richmond; Virginia Beach; Mary Preston Betty Marie Blackwell. Roanoke; ShefTey. Marion; Gloria Frances Mary Aline Boss, Hadlock; Olive! Sheppard. Walkerton: Jean CarAyers Biadsliaw. Rice; Elizabeth ter Smith. Williamson. West VirBatonCaldwell. Sweet Briar; Ma- smm: Marguerite OT>eal Stephry William Calveht. Lynohburg: «ison. Wakefleld; Mary ThompHtlen Joyce Davis Cheatwood, son Sterrett. Raphine; Margaret Richmond: Virginia Rae Chick, Narcissa Stewart, Chnchport; and Prospect: Lena Madison Clai- Mary Evelyn Stovall, Baskerville; Also Virginia Manget Terrell. bonic, Skipwith; Helen Chapman Cobbs. Roanoke: Frances Ellen'Front Royal; Elise Irene ThompCopenhaver. Farmville; Mary son. Boydton; Catherine Rush Roberta Copley, South Hill; Elea-; Trower, Eastville; Martha Anne nor Bane Corell. Portsmouth; I Upshur, Chenton; Mary P. ViccelAlice Lee Davis, Whaleyville; Rob-' "°. Chatham; Eleanor Hartwell erta Davis. Mobjack; Jean Marie I Wade. Charlottesville; Mary Ella Dean. Farmville; Nancy Jane \ Watkins, Emporia, Martha, WitDick.reon. Spout Springs; Anna; son. Richmond; Mary Walker Carol Diggs, Farmvill-; Betsy i Watts, Amherst; Nannie Ophelia Brooks Dillard. Draper, North Ca- Webb. Ordinary; Faith Eugenia nllna: Mary Louise Dondley, Cov- Weeks. Purdy; Caroline Frances ington; Susan Vandegrift Durrett Wentzel. Richmond: Ophelia ReyRlchmond: Sarah Lee East. South "olds Whittle. Petersburg; NanBoston; Fiances Elizabeth Ed- W Trotter Wilkinson, Kenbndge: wards. Gloucster; Alice Ruth Fei- Sara Bird Williams. Woodstock; Uf. Richmond; Nell Ray Fleming, "e'en Garland Wilson, PetersChula; Mary Elizabeth Fuqua. burg; Lucille W. Winston. RichCape Charles: Alice Tappey mond: Mattie El Winston. RustGreen. Farmville; and Katherine °urg; Bette Jane Wood. Hopewell; Todd Gnzzard, Emporia. Sarah Clarke Wood. Wingina. and ., _. . i • Ti.n Mary Franklin Woodward. BarAlso Eleanor Jenkins Hall. * Nomini Grove; Virginia Alice "——■ Hall. South Boston; Rosalie Ann Hamlin. Surry; Nancy Randolph WattS, Lee Win HarreU, Emporia; Mary Elizabeth rp_- TournamM1t Harvey. Roseland; Martha Vir- i -V" i .x ou™dmc"l
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tha Louise Hite. Blackstone; Lelia Alice Holloway. Purdy; Caroline Phyllis Watts. Lynchburg. and Crittcnden Huddle. Richmond; Frances Lee. Richmond, defeated Evelyn Elise Hume, Blueneld, Barbara Scott, Franklin, and MaWeat Virginia; Helen Spotswood ry Walker Watts, Amherst. in the Hunnlcutt. Stony Creek; Anne nnai game of the round robin Kersey Hutt. Neenah, Lulie Ther- tennis tournament which was held m Hutt. Neenah; Mary Anne on campus recently. Jarratt, Jarratt; Fay Byrd John- | Representing red and white. P. ton. VInton; Marilyn Virginia Watts and Lee gained five points. Jotmaon, Roanoke; Beatrice EdIniton Jones. Salem; Dora Wal- ^ t ■> e ■ « _i ker Jones. Radford; Edith Leach V TOSh llefeat SophS
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way and through the woods" . . . for the last few days, and the surprising places you can't find on Horseback! Course it might take a little persuasion to g<H the mounts to crawl through brush on their "hands and knees" whin we reach a ditch with the bridge ■♦ w* '»c:3ac3 down, but none of the ruler* Mem to mind being dragged off into And so the time draws near the mire. when we again must take the sad And what isn't too broad or too initiative and bid our fond adieus. slippery or too something or othIt's been a particularly wonderful er, we leap lightly over and go year for us, and one that we're merrily on our way. Small bridges, not soon likely to forget. big puddles . . . low sets of bars First, we were so enthused over and high clumps of grass . , . ofthe new group of horses . . . ten with friendly mules timing though we missed Cindy and Lin- along over the Jumps behind IH m dy and Winnie and Midnight, and an enthusiastic attempt to be hosall the others, we soon learned pitable. 'Tis a great life. to love Cinnamon. Snowball. Cal- HSU N' THERE Familiar sight around town aftlie and the Phantom Lady nearly as well. Then we were I and still er supper lately has been Bobbyarei so eternally grateful to Dean Anderson, riding, in turn, Robert Smith for letting us ride on Sun- Taylor's mare, Patsy, or his pretdays. Those extra trail-rides and ty little stallion. Prince. Pretty long hours dashing about Long- sight, whichever the mount . . . wood really meant a lot. And of Thanks again to the Treakles and course, Just plain riding was gen- the others who made it possible erally termed Super! We had our for Joyce, J. Carter. Lightenin'. mishaps, but who doesn't, please? Jeanne Sauerwein. M. Rucker, Mr. Sterntt, and B. Cock to make it After all ... !! And now another summer . . . down to Deep Run last week and Mr. Nolen plans to auction Twas a beautiful show, with some the horses June 16th . . . and the beautiful displays of riding . . . question of riding next year or Mr. Dickerson, who judged our own show, was in town Thursnot remains to be seen. day, but only shopping for a sadFAREWELL FROLICS During exams, all regular class- dle this time. es were dispensed with, and trail- SO LONG To all the seniors . . . how can rides took place right and left. Thursday was an eventful day. A we see Joyce leave? ... we wish group of woeful seniors took one best of luck. We hate to see 'em last long trail to Hampden-Syd- go, and we'll really miss having ney. via the back way . . . left at them around the stables, but to 11:00 and ate lunch along the all the others who will be back way. The Madame, in the mean- next year, we say have a big time, had turned them over to summer "at pasture" . . . and Stay on the bit! Mary Sterrett. while she and RobPEGASUS in took off as a twosome for the day. Margaret Lohr and Darky acSALLY ROBERTSON companied Anne Stewart and Cinnamon on another long excursion Pure l»i in;-, 1 . . . this time ten miles to Anna's Perfumes—Toilet Articles j Grandfathers. They came in well Varied Assortment of Stationery : after 6:30. tired but happy. Quality—Price —Service Throughout all the trail-rides, the tendancles have been exploraSeven students and two former Select your GRADUATION GIFTS students of STC plan to be coun- tion and expansion, and what we from our selection could easily term as Puddle-Jumpselors at camps this summer. Cab Overbey, Betty Burchett ing! It's been "over the high- And select some of our sheet music and song books. and Jane Burchett will be at Cherrystone Ranch. Chatham. Millie Shepherd. Dot Owen, Louise CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST Blane. Phylis Watts and former WISHES to the Seniors of '45 students Katherine Parker and Path Garth will be at Camp Farwell. Wells River. Vermont.
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Dedicate Annual Continued from Page 1 Hop". Mr. Raymond Holliday French." The yearbook is divided into two parts. "The People" and "A Week" at Farmville, This year the write-ups of the different organizations precede the pictures. Concluding the social section or the "Weekend" are formal pictures of eight seniors. Personalities featured are Harriette Moore, past president of Student Government; Sara Bird Williams, past president of the Y. W. C. A.; Helen Wilson, past president of the Athletic Assoclaton; Martha Higgins. past president of the House Council: Marilyn Bell, editor of the 1945 Virginian; Eleanor Wade, president of the graduating class; Ophelia Whittle, past vicepresident of Student Government, and Lucy Manson Sharpe. past president of Alpha Kappa Gamma. Pat Maddox is the managing editor of the yearbook and Mary Elizabeth Harvey is business manager.
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Jones, Berryville; Rachel Joyner.l The Axis Stops at Nothing Zunl; Isabel Bertha Key. Bed-, A, ,np fina, softbaU Rame lagt Don't stop your War Bond ford; Jane Knapton. Covington; (he freshmen defeated the Payroll Saving* at 10%. Every Georgia Elizabeth Knight. Appa- wphom0Tes 31_7 Betty Minton, soldier la a 100 percenter. Figlachla: Lucy LeCato Lingo Pun- flT,hman from R^oUe, served as ure II out yourself. goteague; Edith Winn Lovins. hea(J Qf cM softba„ for thp Cumberland: Helen Marie Mc- spring. Gulre, Grundy; Marie Elizabeth. McLean. South Hill; Patricia Lu-' O.rls playing on the frosh taam clle Maddox. Roanoke; Elizabeth ■"• Ahce Ann Aber nathy. Ruth Ann Mapp. Bridgetown; Margaret *nn*";iea"%^ntl5y\Jerr* Co1" Ann Ma^off, Danville; Margaret «'"• Ed'th Duffy. Eloi.se Hanes, Pogue Massey, Hampden-Sydney; Joyce Johnson. Nancy Magner. EiLbeth Dorothy Mast. Lynn- Betty Minton. and Dot White, haven; Lucy Conrad Messick, Representmg the sophomore —visit— Front Royal; Sara Cornelia Dai- class were Betty Bennett, Lee ley Moling. Winchester; Mary Carter, Mary Lee Dickerson. Anna Frances Moon. Shlpman; Ger- Headley. Ruth Jones, Virginia trude Moore, Danville; Harriette Thompson. Rebecca Tomlinson, Sumter Moore. Gastonia. North Charlotte Thorpe. Gene Tucker, Carolina: and Helen C. Mundy. and Mickey Williams. Chatham. TO THE MEMBER8 OF THE Also Alice Odell Nichols. LynchFACULTY & STUDENT BODY— burg: Nancye Bruce Noel. FarmWe appreciate your business of ville; Cecil Marion Orange. ProvContinued from Page 1 1944-45 idence Forge; Virginia Parson. 501 High St. FarrnvtUe, Va Wishing you all a happy vacation! 8tony Creek; Lillian Alleyne Phil- triumph. We live in the connFarniville's Finest Flowers lips, Baskerville; Virginia Drewry|dence that God will work with us Telephone 296 Prince, Capron: Jean Lathrop and that he will see us through." High Street
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Masloff. Chesterfield county; Bliz gem, which came from nobody abi Ih Mast. No l-Yanwli re. 'The editor is not (i Moon, Halifax county; to be heid lesponsible . . . ) trud: Moore. Amelia; Hai • Another year lias went. Moore. Suffolk; Helen Mundy, i a. en sent, Chatham; Marion Orange, i m waiting for tiie hour— mond: Virginia Parson On. this poem's goin' sour, field; Lillian Alleyne Phillips t>o i guess id better scrammer Dinwiddie; Jean Prosise. Hope.■ I'm still pa.ssin' gramwell; Virginia T. Pullcn, Norfolk mar." County; Lorraine Raiford. \\ ley; and Sally Robrrtson. Chesld county. a Jane Waring Ruffm, S Margaret Louise Shanks, Continued irorn Page 2 Alexandria; Lucy Manson Sharpe Oceana; Gloria Frames shep- ed. and protected these four herd. Dumbarton; Margueril We did not know what the Steph nson, Franklin; Mary Bter- future held. rett. Fron' Royai; Margaret StewWe have a great appreciation art, Wise: Mary Evelyn Btovall for ail that has been done for us. On tna: Elise Irene Thompson. We want to do the impossible— Tin beville: Catherine Trower: U> sort of say thank you to all Eastville: Martha Ann-: Upshur. the faculty, the administration— Berryville: Eleanor Wade. Fred- to all those individuals who have erioksburg; Martha Watson, Big molded our personalities, our Island: Nannie Ophelia Webb. thoughts during these telling Norfolk County: Faith Weeks. years. We do realize and appreBaltimore County, Md.; Frances ciate all this. There are ma"y we Wenlzcl Gayl\ Highland Springs: regrel to leave. However, through Nancy Trotter Wilkinson. Ken-; Whal has been given us. instilled bridge: Helen Wilson. Hopewell. in us, we l.ice the future unafraid and Mary Franklin Woodward. With love- and appreciation, for Hopewell. the Farmville we leave behind.
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ment of honor graduates. Those students who have a B Continued from Page. 1 or above on all four years of college work and who were named during the exercises. Mir kind of government to honor graduates in addition to which Mr. Zehmer referred m his' the first and second graduates menage is being proposed at I mentioned previously were VirDumbarton Oaks and in San; ginia Lee Abernathy. Margaret 1'iancisco. "I do not argue the Barksdale. Marilyn Bell, Aline its I0>' some effective form Boss, Olive Bradshaw, Mary Wilof world organization and govern- liam Calvert. Prances Copenhavment if we are to prevent future er, Susan Durrett, Alice Peitig. v. mid wars and possibly the com- Mary Elizabeth Fuqua. Katherine plete break-down of civilization."' Todd Grizzard, Nancy Harrell. Going from weighty matters to Lelia Holloway. Mary Anne Jarthe happier aids of graduating, ratt, Dora Walker Jones, Edith the University speaker said, "And Jones, Anne Masloff. Harri»tte I extend to you my congratula- Moore, Alice Nichols. Jean Prosisc, UPOII your graduation and j Virginia Radogna, Sally Robertvery best wishes for the future. II son, Jane Waring Ruffln, Edith hope th»t i have not over-em- \ Sanford, Barbara Scott. Josephasibed the wickedness and the phine Shaffner, Lucy Manson chaos of the present world or the Sharpe. Margaret Stewart. Mary difficulties that lie before you. The Parrish Viccellio. Eleanor Wade. problem and the difficulties are Nannie Webb. P a i t h Weeks. many and great. But what 1 want Ophelia Whittle. Sara Bird Wilupna.M/r is the opportunity liams, and Mary Franklin Woodthai faces youth. This IS an in- ward. teresting world and there ARE so many opportunities to lead Interesting, happy and useful lives. In many ways. I envy you. For one thing, travel should be easier and xpensive in the future and there are so many interesting and worthwhile places to go and see." Is Dream of Future In dosing, he stated. "The only privilege that I lake in response to the honor that you have extended to me on this occasion is to ask you to think and dream Opposite Tost Office about the future of America and See Catherine Trower our relationship with other counOur Representative trlea In some form of world organization. You know we are, or become, such stuff as dreams are made of! And it is the special privilege of youth to dream and In see visions. My sci nlist friends tell me that among other quallAcatlont- and by no means the least of them — a scientist must have imagination. Imagination is the ability to anticipate, to synthesis* Hi. thinking of other- and sic the direction m which it all points, to see beyond one's nose. 1 n'l Imagination an equally importanl and essential characteristic of a good citizen? So culti:i vate your imagination and draw freely upon it in visualizing the kind of civic and social order you would like to have In the future, Dream about the land of home you would like to have: the kind of neighborhood and community in which you would like to live; the kind of state thai under preMIII conditions can beat serve its people; ami the new kind of re. atton thai Is needhelp man solve their InterDURHAM. N ( related and common problems; The next class will be admitted the character of the national state September VI, 1945. only one class thai the new ordei d manda; and, lulled each year. finally but not least, the kind Basic entrance requirements arc Ol world order we should and must intelligence, aptitude lor nursing nave if wi are to have pence and and character. The academic requirements are 16 units of High justice for all." School ami ;,; least one sem Degrees Awarded each of Cnlhge Chemistry and At this commencement pro- Biology or Zoology. Annual tuition gram, ISO seniors were presented coal Is $100 and covers the degrees by Dr. j. L. Jarman. of Instruction and maintenance. Duke University School of NursMary Preston Bheffty, sc,nn<! honor graduate, gave the SSluta- ing offers the B. s. in Nursing up[oUowlns the Invoca- " oompli imii ol Hie 3-year nurs"tiise and 60 semester hours tion by the lfcv. H Conrad Black"I acceptable College credits welL Duke University school of Nurssinging Gibbon's "The Silver ing also participates in the U. 8. Swan". Monli fa "8ma We and Nurse Cadet ('nips program. UnChant It", and Mornington's der this plan, students who pledge "Here in Cool Grit" were members themselves to continue In nursing of the Madrigal Group of the throughout the war. receive free tuition, uniforms and ■ small College Choir. Sara Dailey Moling. Brsj honor monthly stipend. Application forms and catalogue graduate, gave the valedictory can OS obtained from: Dean Duke address, followed by the award- University School of NUISIIH' ing of degrees and the announce- Duks Hospital. Durham, N. C.
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Question of the Week What will you //!/'«« most at S. T. C. after you've gone? SENIORS: Martha Anne Upshur: Chats late at night. Gloria Sheppard: S. T. C. sundaes! Mary William Calvert: My week end trips away from here. Jean Carter Smith: Riding mainly, and figuring out a way to keep from studying. Carmen Flores: Miss Barksdale. Southside and the kitchen in junior building. Edith Garcia: Horse operas and the biology field trips at 5 o'clock in the morning. Pogue Massey: Nights after 10 o'clock. Betsy Fox: Charlie Hop's smile. Sally Robertson: Everybody. Leila Holloway: Mi- pantry. Miss Barksdale and Don Quixote. Qucekie Trower: Breakfast in the Tea Room. •Dodie" Jones: That would be telling. Gin T. Pullen: The little light bulb! Betsy Caldwell: The chemistry lab. Anne Masloff: 111 miss everything, but the girls and 121 C. H. the most of all. Mary Walker Watts: Second floor Senior Annex.
Betty Edwards: Catching the 2 a. m. Westbound train. Helen Wilson: That's hard to say. Wardie Peery: Gossip! Alice Nichols: My Chi sign. Phe Whittle: It's not something i can put into words! Marilyn Johnson: Mis. Tabb's food! Martha Higgins: Just People! Jane Waring Ruffln: The Rotunda—both of 'em! And now because they're a part of S. T. C, we asked a few V-12's ■he Question of the Week. too. Bob Miller: Joan of Arc. Mrs. McCoy . . . And there's one more woman—Page! Charlie Treanor: The charming personality and friendliness of the Kills here—specially Diddy. Ilanv "Bud" Hall: Waiting!!) Howard Jeans: III miss being at the only place I've been, except Washington, where the ration of women to men is high enough to suit me! Dick Fowler: The Lamplighter! Chaiile "Chuck" Ailes: Studying geography <?) In the Rec! Bruce Stem: Fiances, of course. Joe Sims: Oil. just leave it blank like my mind.
Describe it to me, will you, Mao ? "Ysoh, I hear 'em yelling. This is what I used to dream 1 bout in the jungle. God, if I could on! / see for just five seconds. "That girl there - is she laughing . .. or crying? I had a girl-once. Sure I wrote her when this happened to me. I told her I was tired of her. What else could I say? "Listen to that newsboy... 'GERMAN 1 FINISHED!' I'd give anything to see those headlines. What else does it say? Anything about the Pacific? I hope you guys realize there's still the Pacific. "Yeah. I was there, all right. If you could have seen what I saw, you wouldn't need to read any War Bond ads. Kids you grew up with, with their faces smashed to bits. Nothing left of your best friend but his helmet landing in your lap. Made me kind of mad, I guess. They say I was still fighting when I couldn't see any more. "Yeah, it's bad enough. But it makes it worse when you hear someone saying the war's practically over. Acting as if it's time to ease up on War Bonds and all Then you wonder what you did it for. It's not over yet. Those Japs can do a lot of damage. I ought to know. "Do me a favor, will you, Mac? Keep on buying War Bonds for my buddies out there. And put a little extra in for my sake, will you?"
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