Friday, March 24, 1944
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Doughboys Do . . .
Army SocialitesXeave Memoirs Behind
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By LES GLOTFELTY
BEFORE
Just a year ago this month, the
Nebraskan carried a front page
headline to the effect that the
army air corps was coming to Ne
braska in the form of 300 flight
cadets.
UN students greeted the news
with mixed feelings, especially
when they found that the army
was taking over the new library.
"Back to the old morgue after
all," they said. And then they
waited to see whether they were
going to like the army or not.
Bunks Enter Love.
March 21 the air corps officers
arrived. Bunks not books went
into the library and coeds combed
the closets for extra coat hangars.
And still they waited to form an
opinion about the army. There
were a few gripes about the
"boys" taking over a perfectly
good library, but mostly UN had
curiosity.
Finally, on March 30, as coeds
went to classes they heard new
whistles, not a Nebraska variety,
but more like California, Texas,
Maine, and South Carolina. "Hmm,
they said, "the army is here and
it looks fine to us." Crosswalk
traffic behind the new library
stopped with the posting of "No
Trespassing, Government Prop
erty" signs.
And UN went back to 8 o'clock
classes. Students howled about
that and about not being able to
walk across their own campus.
Looks like the army expects to
run things around here, they said.
G. I.'s Accepted.
UN was so busy trying to de
cide whether to like the army or
not, that it had little time to won
der whether the army liked it. An
air cadet wrote an article of ap
preciation of UN to the Nebras
kan after about 10 days here, and
that's where the students gave in
suid decided to take in the cadets
.s true Nebraskans. Part of UN's
own ROTC left for parts un
known, and coeds, at first wary,
turned to the cadets for dates and
southern accents and Saturday
night fun.
Then the dorm got quarantined
for scarlet fever. Coeds blamed
the army for bringing the germs,
particularly since third floor of
Northeast had become a GI in
firmary. About that time, the
STAR'S arrived on ag campus,
and germs were forgotten in the
general excitement. Only one thing
was worrying the coeds where
were they going to live next year
when the army took over the
dorm, frat and sorority houses.
Chancellor Boucher nipped that in
the bud with a spring announce
ment that houses would stay civil
Ian, and UN settled down with no
worries to watch for further de
velopments. Campus Kept Busy.
The ASTP was still a vague
rumor in those days, but the ac
tivated ROTC, STAR'S, and cadets
kept the campus busy with social
life, speculation, and rumor.
When students went home in
May, they had formed some pretty
definite ideas about the army. It
had taken over the university, no
doubt. There were 8 o'clocks and
no library because of them. No
week night dates, so coeds had to
coke by themselves or, worse yet,
study. They (the GI's) pushed Ne-
Editors Ready
GI Swan Song
Communique from the library
front (delayed by rumors) latest
hot tips can't seem to decide who's
going where when, but the Ne
braskan is saying farewell today.
Sunday, your faithful (?) Army
News editors will dedicate our fi
nal, ultimate and last edition of
the Nebraskan Army News to the
soldiers' farewell to the univer
sityfarewell at least for quite
a few of us.
We have met a lot of deadlines
amid frantic poundvig on this key
board since last September. It will
seem rather sad to end our gremlin-like
newspaperman existence
of trying to keep out of the way
of big "disapproved" stamps and
yet cover the various military ac
tivities on campus. That reminds
us must rush back to the library
for the latest "Have you heard?"
"No, what's up?" "I haven't
heard about it either."
THE ARMY
NEWS EDITORS.
AFTER
It has suddenly dawned on UN
students, mostly the coeds, that
tempus is fugiting at a terrific
rate, April 1 is getting close, and
this year it means something be
sides April Fool's day.
The AST boys know well what
April 1 or thereabouts means to
them goodbye Nebraska. Just
what it means to the campus they
leave behind them is something
civilians joke lightly about in spite
of the fact that they are just be
ginning to realize how much the
army does mean these days.
Little Things Count.
It could be the fact that UN
stands to lose out on some finances
that is going to make students
miss the GI. But it really isn't
anything big like this. The things
that gripe a little bit now and
then are the things civilians will
be lost without until they have
time to get adjusted again.
"She's Got Em," "Paddy Mur
phey," "The Air Corps Song" and
even "Dear Old Alaska U" have
become so much a part of cam
pus that students have forgotten
how to sing Husker songs.
They'll miss the mess in the
Union at GI dinner time, they'll
miss getting run over on the Union
steps by hungry cadets, and they'll
miss side-swiping piles of books
and overcoats in the halls.
War Show Rates.
They are sure that there will
never be another War Show like
the one of 1944 with Joe Stynes,
Rog O'Reily, Stanley Green, Jerry
Broder and his orchestra, and the
dozens of other soldiers that co
operated and had fun making the
production such a success.
Coeds will miss coke dates at
9 in the Union after study hall,
and they will miss Alabama, Wis
consin, and Vermont pin-mates.
They'll miss the men in general.
Civilians will have to learn all
over how to walk on the sidewalks
No more wondering what is being
said when a cadet starts sounding
off in German.
Last May UN went home for
the summer, wondering what it
would be like to come back to a
military campus. This May it will
go home for the summer, wonder
ing what it will be like without
the army. They will tell the Air
Corps and the AST so long and
good luck and all that stuff, and
they'll hope that maybe the army
has liked it here just a little, be
cause they liked having them here
a lot.
braskans off the sidewalks and
got student classrooms so that
civilians had to trip clear over to
Law for Spanish class.
This then was UN and the army
a year ago. What civilian men
thought about the cadets taking
over their brst girls was censored,
and what the coeds thought about
being taken over was obvious by
the Saturday night fun. Anyway,
Nebraskans liked the singing, and
they were pretty sure that they
were going to like the army. "Wait
till next year," they said, when
there won't be any tweed coats
and plaid ties to contrast with
khaki.
Union-Army
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10:30-12:00. 3rd Floor
9 to 12 P. M.
Sat., March 25
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Union Ballroom
Membership Card, Please!
The "boys that are leaving"
have left no small impression on
old UN campus, to say nothing of
the pins and rings they have left
with certain coeds. Very early on
the list were Harold Leventhal,
Phi Sigma Delta from Boulder,
and SDT Frayde Sobel of course,
they had something of a head
start since Frayde got her little
pin in summer school. Then she
got a honey of a diamond right
about Christmas to sew things up,
but perfectly.
Not far behind were Jack May
and Alpha Phi Carolyn "Candy"
Held, who surprised all with
Candy's turning up with a flash
on third finger, left hand, on New
Year's eve . . . Back from fur
lough came A&L Bill Maurice of
Ohio and presented his badge to
Alpha Phi Mary Sinclair.
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Before this, Harvard's David
Lowenthal and Anita Kezer, Theta
from Oklahoma A. & M., became
engaged, informally, but the in
formal part of it was not to stop
their folk? from becoming ac
quainted and everything being
Just real chummy and so it looks
real much like the real thing.
Strictly "on the ball" was Mich
igan's Chi Psi Fred Lehmann
whose sweetheart pin found its
way to the Pi Phi arrow of Adri
enne Waggoner, all of which
makes for a right happy combi
nation except that Fred has al
ready left for the ski troops . . .
Only recently did Dale Wolf,
former UN boy, hang his Farm
House pin on Gamma Phi Clarice
Marslnll and about this time
news that Harvey Aronson and
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SDT Lenore Simon are going
.steady, mild for these days, we'll
admit, but after all, Lennie is still
a freshman . . .
Beta Marries.
Harold Salisbury, former UN
Beta, did things up really right
when he married Theta Shirley
Wright on March 11.
Not even going steady are Air
Corps man Mai Harris and Alpha
Phi "Margie" Swanson but people
and people would like to see more
of that couple and we can see
why ...
More aviation students doing a
bit of all light are Edward Smith
with Alpha Chi Jean Larson and
Leo Sweeney with dorm's Lois
Nelson ... to say nothing of
Marty Herschkowitz and SDT
Becky Silver . . . That's all . . .
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