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The Ursinus Weekly, December 14, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Richard Wentzel, Donald Melson

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Academic council announces future examination dates • Banquet and party will highlight gala Christmas season • Frosh elect Bain to council • Adamic explains "Two-Way passage" and reconstruction plans to forum • Annual senior ball trip to tropic isle attracts 120 couples • Oldest grad dies in Philly hospital • Four soloists and supporting chorus score in "Messiah" • Pre-Meds hear Dressler talk on tropic diseases • Ex-college nurse moves • Thirteen added as Weekly reporters • Rev. Schlingman to speak at brotherhood meeting • Inter frat-sorority ball will climax rushing week • Year's first Lantern issue to be published …

The Ursinus Weekly, December 7, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr.

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Vespers speaker pleads cause for charter freedoms • Lecture by Louis Adamic, "The Messiah" presentation, tropical, moonlit senior ball, and Curtain Club comedy to be featured in eventful week on Ursinus campus • Five Ursinus students attend IRC conference • 4 veteran soloists to sing oratorio • Gordon to return for senior formal • Cast rushes week of final practice • Friday named by president as 18-19 registration day • Christmas party to follow annual banquet next week • Ex-Weekly editor engaged • Snell's belles tie Baker's boys • Five Bullets make Ursinus' all-opponent first team • Basketball coeds begin …

Hollins Columns (1942 Dec 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Founder’s Day Comes to Campus; Shoals of Fish Congregate Here
• Whale! Whale! The Gang’s All Here! What the Hook Do We Care!
• Splash!
• Song of the Sea Nymphs (poem)
• Minnie Swims with Meny Schools
• 20,000 Legs Under the Sea
• Scales ‘n’ Scallops
• Use No Hooks-String Him a Line!
• The Time Has Come (poem)
• A Gull’s Point of View
• A Bouy’s Point of View
• Orders of Bridge
• Under the Foam

Hollins Columns (1942 Dec 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Founder's Day Comes to Campus; Shoals of Fish Congregate Here
• Whale! Whale! The Gang's All Here! What the Hook Do We Care!
• Song of the Sea Nymphs
• Splash!
• Minnie Swims with Meny Schools
• 20,000 Legs Under the Sea
• Scales 'N' Scallops
• Use No Hooks--String Him a Line!
• The Time Has Come
• A Gull's Point of View
• A Buoy's Point of View
• Orders of Bridge
• Under the Foam

The Ursinus Weekly, November 30, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Donald Melson, William H. Sutcliffe

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Y launches drive at Ursinus today in behalf of WSSF • Louis Adamic, "Messiah," and senior ball to make the week of December seventh one of the biggest of the college year • Community club's program questions way toward peace • Grad's sister dies in Boston tragedy • Faculty sends four to profs' conclave • Y heads to address frosh • Analysis of women re-written to include artistic viewpoint • Personality and broad musical experience distinguish Dr. Philip • Debaters to meet tonight • Snell's belles give bear sports first unblemished season in five years • Giants finish perfect season …

The Ursinus Weekly, November 23, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Joe Much

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Vespers audience hears Koch speak on life of Christ • Dr. Carter instructs men's debate club in argumentation • Louis Adamic, noted author and lecturer, will address the December ninth forum; fifth "Messiah" to return following night • Styres, de Nault, Jamison, and Vickland will be featured as vocal soloists • Negro youth tells of race prejudice • Seniors rushing plans for December weekend • Williams tells chemists about science of tanning • English Club hears Hopkins review "Unforgotten Years" • Forum's town meeting scheduled tomorrow • Pre-meds will see movies • War bonds and stamps sale begun by women's …

Hollins Columns (1942 Nov 20), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• George C. Obenshain Rescues Pilots; Roanoke Man Cited As Hero
• Y.W.C.A. Sponsors Dr. George Heaton
• Durrschmidt Tells of War Experiences
• Miss Recker Joins Hollins Faculty
• Defense Courses to Begin Here Second Semester
• Mr. William A. Preston, Mr. George S. Shackelford Judge Gymkhana; Jumping Class Won by Patricia Graling on "Ma Cherie"
• Campus Community Pledges $970 To World Student Service Found
• Publisher Releases Miss Ruedi's Book
• Wilson Announces Results of Survey
• New Art Exhibit Is Announced
• One at a Time, Please
• The World Today
• Under the Dome
• Skirting the Field
• Thanksgiving Plans are Completed
• Odd-Even Teams Meet in …

Hollins Columns (1942 Nov 20), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• George C. Obenshain Rescues Pilots; Roanoke Man Cited As Hero
• Y.W.C.A. Sponsors Dr. George Heaton
• Durrschmidt Tells of War Experiences
• Miss Recker Joints Hollins Faculty
• Defense Courses To Begin Here Next Semester
• Mr. William A Preston, Mr. George S. Shackelford Judge Gymkhana; Jumping Class Won by Patricia Graling on “Ma Cherie”
• Campus Community Pledges $970 to World Student Service Fund
• Publisher Releases Miss Ruedi’s book
• Wilson Announces Results of Survey
• New Art Exhibit Is Announced
• Hollins Columns Staff
• One at a Time, Please
• The World Today
• Under the Dome
• Skirting the Field
• Thanksgiving Plans are Completed
• Odd-Even …

The Ursinus Weekly, November 16, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Edwin Mccausland Jr.

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Vespers speaker tells students of Christian anchors • Old timers watch bears lose 12-0 to Gettysburg in final game of year • Wednesday forum to hear executive of "France Forever" • Former IRC prexy speaks on France • Pearson explains pre-meds' status • Lentz tells brotherhood of a minister's problems • Ensign Herrmann tells of training in WAVES • Annual senior ball to feature music of Gordon's band • Wiley and Downs outline women debaters' plans • Speaker tells French Club of war hardships in France • Beardwood Society to hear talk on tanning of leather • Hopkins will review …

The Ursinus Weekly, November 9, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Henry Turner, Frank J. Curtis

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Bears feast on dragon meat in 19-13 dads' day victory • Nelson pleads for dynamic religion at Y conference • Old timers' dance to feature music by Damon Holton • Cooke chosen for senior play lead • Girls asked to give hand in making war bandages • Mass meeting addressed by Chinese YWCA worker • Lt. Disert to tell Wednesday forum about the WAVES • Rogalinski named president • Bayne tells Chem Society of polarographic function • Pearson to tell pre-meds of their status in the war • French Club to hear Dunant • Dr. White attends conclave • Freshman …

Hollins Columns (1942 Nov 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Howard Boatwright Cast for Fall Play Guest Artist Here Named by Board
• Freshmen to Present Four Plays Saturday
• Music Federation Holds Meeting at Hollins
• Nine New Apprentices Join Orchesis Group
• Class of '44 Plans Prom for Dec. 5
• Gymkhana to be Held on November 14
• American Group in Oils Shown in "Y"
• Ernst Wolff, Baritone, Presents Concert and Informal Music
• Air Cadets from Roanoke to be Entertained Here
• Cotillion Club Chooses Twenty New Members
• Eight Hollins Girls Listed in "Who's Who"
• Freedom of the Minority
• News of the Week
• Something Must Be Done
• Under the Dome
• Confidentially... …

Hollins Columns (1942 Nov 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins Columns States Policy for 1942-43
• Howard Boatwright Cast for Fall Play, Guest Artist Here Named By Board
• Freshmen to Present Four Plays Saturday
• Music Federation Holds Meeting at Hollins
• Nine New Apprentices Join Orchesis Group
• Class of ’44 Plans Prom for December 5
• Gymkhana to be Held on November 14
• American Group in Oils Shown in ‘Y’
• Ernst Wolff, Baritone, Presents Concert and Informal Music
• Air Cadets from Roanoke to be Entertained Here
• Cotillion Club Chooses Twenty New Members
• Eight Hollins Girls Listed in “Who’s Who”
• Schedule of Events
• Hollins Column Staff
• Freedom of the Minority …

The Ursinus Weekly, November 2, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Marion Bright

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

First forum hears political, economic stakes of the war • "Unity in diversity" will be subject of interdenominational conference • Council president tells vespers of religion in college • Fathers' Day banquet to feature addresses by Steward and Ditter • "Praise the lord" chaplain attended college during '28 • Old timers' day to feature Gettysburg game and dance • Curtain Club books play tryouts for Tuesday night • Library increases rake-off on books that are overdue • English Club schedules book review for tonight • Former college nurse attending U.S. Army "somewhere in England" • Detwiler, Brunner elected to fill …

Newspaper Article - Illiterates Saved From Scrap Heap By Army's New Special Training, Army Times.

The 1210th S.T.U. at Fort Ontario, 1943-1944

An article published on October 31, 1942 in the Army Times describing the introduction of the Special Training Unit Program.

The Ursinus Weekly, October 26, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., William H. Sutcliffe

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Bone and Carter to address forum on post-war problem Wednesday • Service representatives emphasize advantages of reserve enlistments • Sixty-five couples don gay costumes at Halloween party • Campus bell to honor men in armed forces • Dad's day dinner to follow Drexel game November 7 • English club admits nine; Cooke elected secretary • Senior class begins plans for weekend in December • Debate tryouts to be held in reception room tonight • Native of Hungary stresses God's way in plea for peace • Holton to furnish music for dance Saturday evening • Women's debating society considers new applicants …

Hollins Columns (1942 Oct 24), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Senter is Elected Junior Officer
• Necessary Price Rise Begins at Tea Room
• Committee Studies Petition Problems
• Winship to Edit Hollins Handbooks
• Hallowe’en Brings Spooks, Ghosts, and Haunts to Hollins Campus, Special Banquet Celebration Will Be Followed by Senior Stunts
• Executive Council Coordinates Work
• Isabel de Palencia Comes to Hollins; Authoress Speaks at Convocation
• Swimming Club Grows; Members Take Tests
• Cinema Guild Brings Film Here Saturday
• Schedule of Events
• The Students Discuss Farming During Wartime
• Members of Teams To be Announced
• Two Hollins Girls Attend Meetings
• Mr. Goodale Offers Farewell Recital
• Dorscheid Announces New Staff of Spinster
• Classes …

Hollins Columns (1942 Oct 24), Hollins College, Albert Kirven Cocke

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Senter Is Elected Junior Officer
• Necessary Price Rise Begins at Tea Room
• Committee Studies Petition Problems
• Winship to Edit Hollins Handbook
• Hallowe'en Brings Spooks, Ghosts and Haunts to Hollins Campus, Special Banquet Celebration Will be Followed by Senior Stunts
• Executive Council Coordinates Work
• Isabel de Palencia Comes to Hollins; Authoress Speaks at Convocation
• Swimming Club Grows; Members Take Tests
• Cinema Guild Brings Film Here Saturday
• Schedule of Events
• This is Our Chance
• We are Approved
• A Salutation From the Seniors
• Hollins Columns Presents the Second in a Series of News Analyses by Judy Weiss
• Under the Dome …

The Ursinus Weekly, October 19, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr.

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Post-war treaties chosen as subject for year's forums • Council on student activities releases three dance dates • Coolidge delivers Founders' Day address; Pfahler Hall of Science officially named • Ruby editor plans consolidated staff for '43 yearbook • Rev. Imre Kovacs will address next Sunday's vespers • Frosh class chats on life at college • Servicemen to present enlisted reserve plans • College forms defense council • Beardwood Chem Society makes plans for semester • English Club will meet tonight at Dr. McClure's • Navy to commission 3 grads • Cub and Key taps Bauer • Post-war reconstructions will …

The Ursinus Weekly, October 12, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Donald Melson

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Pfahler Hall of Science to be named at Founders' Day exercises tomorrow • Johnson, Pancoast address assembly of men students • Y's calendar lists parties next week, events for future • Committee to pick Curtain Club play • Activities council plans year's social calendar • Carter represents Ursinus debaters at 20th conclave • Dr. Pfahler holds coveted positions in field of X-ray • History of the science building dates to modest origin in 1917 • IRC admits 9 new members; Heckman made president • Former European student to address French Club • Men asked not to use roof • YM …

Hollins Columns (1942 Oct 9), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Social Committee Announces Plans
• Sophomores to Give Freshmen Carnival
• Hollins Student Body Chooses Burt for Secretary-Treasurer
• College Choir Adds Members
• Molly Weeks Heads Legislative Board
• S.S.S.?
• Toepleman, Spears, Davidson Join Staff
• Choral Club Elects Chewning President
• “Y” Elects Davenport Secretary, May States Plans for Year
• Martin Will Head New House Board
• A.A.U.W. Sponsors Benefit Play
• Schedule of Events
• The Students Discuss: War Marriages

Hollins Columns (1942 Oct 9), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Social Committee Announces Plans
• Sophomores to Give Freshmen Carnival
• Hollins Student Body Chooses Burt for Secretary-Treasurer
• College Choir Adds Members
• Molly Weeks Heads Legislative Board
• S.S.S.?
• Toepleman, Spears, Davidson Join Staff
• Choral Club Elects Chewning President
• "Y" Elects Davenport Secretary May States Plans for Year
• Martin Will Head New House Board
• A.A.U.W. Sponsors Benefit Play
• With or Without?
• What About Russia?
• Song of the Gal in the Gilded Cage
• As it Stands Now
• Under the Dome
• Hollins Girls Seek New Diversions; Finding Pastimes Taxes Ingenuity
• Keep Healthy and Help Win the War
• I.R.C. to Discuss World Situation …

The Ursinus Weekly, October 5, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Marion Bright, William H. Sutcliffe

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Over 135 students speed graduation in summer school • Abraham Hendricks succumbs at home after long illness • President McClure greets largest new enrollment Thursday in chapel • Founders' Day program to honor Dr. Pfahler in dedication ceremony • College buildings to close at 5:30 • Work-study plan attracts 20 men • College opens buildings to 3 summer conclaves • Freshmen stagger through first week of mysteries at Ursinus • Miss Beck takes post as assistant librarian • Ursinus to participate in student war loan program • Swartley sets deadline • Five delegates attend Kanestaki conference • Y handbook guides …

Hollins Columns (1942 Sept 21), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Donald Davidson Gives Address
• Hollins Spinsters Decrease Rapidly
• Faculty Members Join the Service
• Introducing the B.G.O.C.’s
• Important Notice!
• Freshmen Welcomed by Group Leaders
• Open Letter to the Class of ’46
• 16 New Members Join School Staff
• Hollins Becomes Family Tradition
• Y.W.C.A. to Give “V” Party Tonight
• List of Teachers in Service
• Hollins Columns Staff
• Directory of New Students
• Two Frosh Collaborate on Opinion of Hollins
• Under the Dome
• Don’t be Amazed

Hollins Columns (1942 Sept 21), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Donald Davidson Gives Address
• Hollins Spinsters Decrease Rapidly
• Faculty Members Join the Service
• Introducing the B.G.O.C.'s
• Freshmen Welcomed By Group Leaders
• Open Letter to The Class of '46
• 16 New Members Join School Staff
• Hollins Becomes Family Tradition
• Y.W.C.A. to Give "V" Party Tonight
• List of Teachers in Service
• Directory of New Students
• Two Frosh Collaborate on Opinion of Hollins
• Under the Dome
• Don't be Amazed

The Ursinus Weekly, August 10, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Robert Ihrie

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Collegeville ten scores twin wins on hitting power • Football schedule planned tentative to council action • Ursinus grad saves fifteen in two Greenland rescues • Conference concludes with memorial service in honor of Dr. Yost • Assembly passes three new rules • Juniors beat sophs in 23-4 hitting spree • Golf, softball, and tennis highlight intra program • Sixteen netmen survive in tennis competitions • IRC holds discussion on the effects of war • Highland Hall outpost soon to be reopened as women's dormitory • Dr. Hartzell outlines living a Christian life

The Ursinus Weekly, July 27, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Robert Ihrie, Bill Sutcliffe

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Heckman's ten suffers defeat for first time • Ursinus Y groups unite in chapel, vesper services • Registrar announces tentative enrollment of 93 men, 91 women • Dean Pancoast explains new rules, clarifies his position at mass meeting • Summer assembly plans to conduct 35th session in memory of Dr. Yost • Profs spend summer at home, on vacations • Sizzling junior softball machine rolls up five straight victories • Civil service commission to hold examinations for junior assistant • Pre-med society holds watermelon research • "U" crew at Jacobs joins "ten-percenters" • Twenty-four men remain as tourney nears finale

The Ursinus Weekly, July 13, 1942, J. William Ditter Jr., Robert Ihrie, Garfield Sieber Pancoast

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Freshmen rally in extra frame to knot series • Deferment ratings further changed to favor students • Sixty city slickers attend barn dance in Freeland hayloft • Twelve-week summer term opens with enrollment of 137 students • Ursinus health program features touch football during third full week • College host to 135 at 5-day conference • Two Ursinus couples recently married; three pairs engaged • Men's tennis tourney to begin this week • Collapsed editors cut Weekly to fit short summer term • First chapel service to be held Wednesday • Out-door vespers program on theme of "rededication"

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Summer 1942, Alfred C. Alspach, Norman E. Mcclure

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, 1937-1969

Current comment: Ursinus at war; Lieutenant Aram Y. Parunak, U. S. N., '33; Prospective students and the Selective Service • President's page • 72nd annual commencement • Miss Ermold retires • Summer session draws larger registration • New Selective Service deferment for students • Dr. Reginald Sibbald passes away • Dr. Yost mourned by grads and students • Ursinus director passes • Our alumni secretary's page • New changes in administrative posts • Local alumni group meetings • Report on your funds • Ursinusites, at home and abroad • Our service men • 1942 varsity football schedule

Newspaper Article – Bungling Stirs Veterans Here, Press And Sun Bulletin (Binghamton, New York)

The 1210th S.T.U. at Fort Ontario, 1943-1944

An article published on June 24, 1942 in the Press and Sun Bulletin (Binghamton, New York), titled "Bungling Stirs Veterans Here," stating Colonel Willis Shippam is the Commandant of Fort Ontario.

Photograph - Mg Robertson Inspects Barracks In Old Jail, Elmira Star-Gazette (Elmira, New York)

The 1210th S.T.U. at Fort Ontario, 1943-1944

Major General Ralph Robertson inspects the equipment of the laundry room in the old Chemung County Jail. The jail had been repurposed as barracks for Military Police. (From left to right Colonel Willis Shippam, Major General Ralph Robertson and Captain Lynn Wallace)