Homecoming Reflections and Campus Return Possibility
A discussion on hosting a homecoming this year highlights the appeal of alumni returning to campus for visits and events as letters discuss planning and feasibility.
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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1945
Page
2
A discussion on hosting a homecoming this year highlights the appeal of alumni returning to campus for visits and events as letters discuss planning and feasibility.
Alumni and students debate a wartime timing for Kent State University's Victory Homecoming. With no football squad this fall, planners weigh a spring Campus Night as an ideal alternative for decorations, competitions, and a “get together” honoring returning servicemen.
Daily communications from servicemen to the dean of men recount letters of thanks and hometown memories. Pvt Sam Gordon, 1940-42, writes from Saipan about homeward plans and Red Cross canteen encounters with Mary Ellen Hayes. Lt Bob McNeese, 1940-42, reports time in Cold Bay Alaska.
The Kent Stater lists editor in chief Clarence Tonka and business manager Gossett with a staff of named editors and reporters. The paper is published three times weekly on Tuesday Wednesday and Friday during the university year with vacation suspension. Subscriptions are two dollars annually. Entered second class matter October 11 1927 at Kent Ohio. Printed by Commercial Press Inc Kent Ohio.
A lone Englishman who wed a WAC requests permission to join his wife in the United States as a GI groom. He joins a broader English demand of about 50,000 women seeking U.S. entry to join their GI husbands.
Ted Collins, manager of CBS figure Kate Smith and owner of the Boston Yanks, selected 20 of 22 winners across four straight weeks on the Kate Smith Show. His optimistic forecast highlights strong sports betting insight and cross-genre influence in radio and football circles.
A verse by Dr. Maurice Baum muses on learning physics to gauge energy from a dog's nonstop tail wag. The poem playfully blends science and a common domestic observation.
The library adds two Russia related titles with notes from head librarian John Nicholson. Samuel Harper’s memoirs cover 1902 41 while John F Normano’s Spirit of Russian Economics surveys Soviet economic thought. Other new works cover New Zealand Pacific regions journalism and culture.
Record fans can buy Ray Noble and orchestra’s Full Moon and Empty Arms based on Rachmaninoff’s Concerto in stores by December 10. Noble’s haunting melody, rich woodwinds, and violin obbligato place him among recording romantics, ideal as a Yule gift. It Might As Well Be Spring, arranged by Noble with Roy Lanson on vocals, showcases woodwinds and strings.
Ginny Simms of a CBS program has christened her North Bridge California ranch Virleedo a portmanteau from Virginia Ginny's mother Lee and Dormer Simms her father The Simms now reside on the ranch with Ginny and her parents.
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