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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 2001
Page
9
The article recalls how World War II reshaped campus life from classes to social life. Students faced altered academics with credit for active duty and many moved or adjusted to military presence while women gained leadership roles and wartime opportunities.
Maryann Mahaffey, now Detroit City Council president, recounts a two month 1945 internship at Poston Internment Camp in California. She collected data on detainees, faced racism, and learned the impact of prejudice, shaping her social work path and ongoing commitment to ending inequality.
An East Iowa wartime piece recounts mixed views on service and loyalty. At Iowa, President Virgil Hancher faced a Navy accusation against football players later found unsubstantiated. Cornell grads recall cadet life strains, cadet cadence taunts, and town attitudes toward conscientious objectors as younger generations bear wartime burdens.
Gazette staff recounts Edward R. Murrow broadcasting live from London during the Blitz and how radio news shaped American perceptions. It highlights Murrow’s team, including Shirer, Collingwood, Sevareid and Smith, and notes rival reporters like Hal Boyle Bourke White and Ernie Pyle, who died on Ie Shima in 1945.
The record notes a wartime aid and a U S victory over Japan in March 1943 during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
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