Senior Saga Remember When
A Cornell class of 44 reminiscence traces 1940 to 1944. The piece recalls hell week, campus events, student leaders, Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa memberships, and the looming June 1944 commencement. Senior memories span presidents, editors, recitals, weddings, and a long campus history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim King
Ruth Stewart
Ann Arganbright
Jim Harris
Mary Emmett
Shirley Bridgman
Margaret Beck
Margaret Smyth
Sue Swift
Blanche Gabrielson
Mary Schneider
Martha Jackson
Jo Day
Mortar Board
Ellie Jenner
Jane Hall
Mickey Schneider
Navy Academic Refresher Unit Arrives at Hilltop Campus
President Cole announced a Navy Academic Refresher Unit will be housed on the Hilltop starting July 13 or 27. The program, for Navy personnel and civilian inductees, will run 8 to 24 weeks with 50 to 60 hours weekly of classes and labs, featuring English math physics and military drill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Cole
Merner
Law
Bowman
Cornell
St. Olaf
Monmouth
Murray State Teachers
California Polytechnic School
Louisiana State Normal
William Jewell
Wooster
MacGregor Debuts in Who's Who With New Honor
Cor nell dean and psychology professor Dean Jay B. MacGregor is listed for the first time in the 1944-45 Who's Who in America. The Atlantic Iowa native earned a B A from Grinnell and M A Ph D from Iowa, taught at Mason City and James Millikin, served in WWI, and led education at Eastern Illinois and Mason City junior college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay B. MacGregor
Cornell
Atlantic
Iowa
Grinnell College
State University of
Dean MacGregor
Mason City High School
Mason City Junior College
James Millikin University
Decatur
Illinois
Eastern Illinois State Teachers College
Charleston
Ilinois
MacLaughlin Lauded by John Dewey for Education Work
Dr Samuel J. McLaughlin received a letter from philosopher John Dewey praising his and his students work in the Ed Echo education department magazine. Dewey also applauds McLaughlin's May 1944 Progressive Education article Youth Demands a Change and notes admiration for the Tree of Knowledge penned by Marion White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel J. McLaughlin
John Dewey
Ed- Echo
Education Department
Dewey
McLaughlin
Progressive Education
Mr. Dewey
Marion White
Leahy Heads Four Day Commencement Plans
Alumni week outlines four day events for the class of 1894 led by J M Macaulay with reunions at Pfeiffer Lounge Salute to Cornellians in the chapel and an alumni banquet at the Methodist church. Keyes and Yoran organized the golden anniversary reunion with Rood House as headquarters and guests from California reserved for meals and socials. Seniors may retrieve freshman themes Friday at South Hall room 14 before commencement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J M Macaulay
Pfeiffer
Cole
Methodist Church
Charles R. Keyes
Melvin J. Yoran
Manchester
Rood House
Mae Nelson
Fort Dodge
Maude Myers
Thorne
Merle Smith
Pasadena
California
Cornell
Harlan Updegraff
Keyes
Palisades
South Hall
Cornell 91st commencement week begins with trustees meet and memorial
The 91st Cornell commencement week opens Friday June 2 with a board of trustees meeting at 9 30 am and a memorial service for Dr William Harmon Norton at 4 pm Saturday marks alumni day with class reunions including 1894 golden anniversary and 1919 silver anniversary celebrants. J M Macauley urges seniors to call for tickets May 29 for all events and arrange overnight accommodations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William D Leahy
Cornell
Board of Trustees
William Harmon Norton
Pfeiffer
J. M. Macauley
Iphigenia in Aulis to open two day campus event
Admiral William D Leahy will give the commencement address as fifty five seniors receive degrees Sunday June 5 at 10 a m in the Chapel. Earlier the Iphigenia in Aulis stage production features Marian Hatfield as Iphigenia and Peg Newberg as Achilles with a chorus of freshmen. a Salute to Cornellians in Service service and alumni events precede the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euripides
Aulis
Iphigenia
Marian Hatfield
Achilles
Peg Newberg
Nyla Ann Calkins
Agamemnon
Em Searles
Menelaus
Mary Stevenson
Clytaemnestra
Chester Williams
Russell D. Cole
Armstrong Hall
Conservatory of Music
William D. Leahy
Roosevelt
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Sally Hasselberg
Kangaroo Court
Mary Yost
Alice Blue
Ray Jones
Mac Neilson
Jim Larson
Cornellians
Don Fehrenbach
Dick Silliman
The
Royal Purple
Truth Carlson
Norman Zollinger
Sid Garland
Marjorie Hole
Virginia Holmstrom
Barbara Hansen
Betty Stephens
Peter Solmitz
Genevieve Sorensen
Penny Jones
Eleanor Jenner
Ruth Sheffield
Jim McRoberts
Phyl Willer
Pfeiffer, Bowman, Rood
Altoona
Guild
MacGregor
MacLaughlin
Leahy
Adm
W. D. Leahy
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