ACADEMICS
As the war wound down, 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 adopted a new curriculum requiring expanded basic courses during the first two years and the selection of a field of concentration by the start of the junior year. Before this time, students declared a major only by invitation from a particular department鈥檚 faculty.
STUDENT LIFE
Sage Vets
Sage Vets invited all veterans enrolled at 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 to attend its first meeting. Organized to promote a closer understanding between the veterans and the College, the group included one woman, World War II veteran Betty Hicks '47, who also was the national women鈥檚 All-American Open golf champion.
War Work
The campus War Work Program offered a course in nurse鈥檚 aid for the first time. Other activities included knitting, smudging鈥攂ut only if the situation was 鈥渄esperate鈥濃攁nd weekly sales of War Bonds.
The Social Scene
From The Student Life: 鈥淎 survey of the social scene at 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 during these lean war months is not disheartening, but it is unusual at least to 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023, famed for its atmosphere of country club ease in days past. A rather hectic note has been struck in the general run of activities, which is understandable enough. After all, it is disconcerting to arrange a formal with 400 women and 95 men despite the still active services of the vine-covered date bureau鈥.The major source of social life for the entire fall semester was, of course, centered about the doings of our valiant football team. We wouldn鈥檛 go so far as to say it was just like the old days, but the sight and sound of the stands filled with screaming rooters, the blue and white rooter鈥檚 caps, the pompoms and a real live football team certainly did as much as anything to revive a somewhat lagging college morale.鈥
The Man Who Didn鈥檛 Come to Dinner
Also from The Student Life: "Despite the demand for a presentation of the Moss Hart-George Kaufman comedy that has been pressing for the past two years, the specter of A Man Who Came to Dinner without a man kept the play from happening. Rallying to the call [for a later production], an entire fourth of the male population of the college turned out for try-outs.鈥
EVENTS
Andr茅s Segovia
Classical guitarist Andr茅s Segovia performed at Bridges Auditorium as part of the Claremont College鈥檚 Artist Course series.
ATHLETICS
Women鈥檚 PGA President
Betty Hicks 鈥47 attended 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 while simultaneously serving as the first president of the newly-formed Women鈥檚 PGA. Hicks was named the Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year in 1941 after winning the U.S. Amateur championship at age 20.
Men鈥檚 Basketball and Track Return
The basketball and track teams returned, with the 鈥淐agehens鈥 playing their first game in two years. There were no tall players but what they lacked in height, they made up for in scrap, according to The Student Life. Coach Nixon was quoted as saying 鈥淲hen you鈥檙e down, there鈥檚 only one way to go鈥攗p.鈥
ALUMNI
USS Harwood
The USS Harwood, a destroyer named in honor of Bruce Harwood 鈥31, was launched at the Terminal Islands yards in San Pedro. It was the last of 25 large destroyers built by Bethlehem Steel. Commander Harwood, who was serving as air officer of the aircraft carrier Princeton, was killed following the loss of the ship in the battle for Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
ELSEWHERE
- A group of Marines reached the top of Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima and were photographed raising the American flag.
- Diarist Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- A B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named 鈥淟ittle Boy,鈥 on Hiroshima.