1940s

Special Feature

This gallery features Quarterly photos from the 1940s.

We have included as much information as possible from the original photo captions and stories to accompany the photos featured in this edition.

1941 :: Theatre performance of MacBeth.

1942 :: Commencement

1942 :: Crampton Hall room after the building was renovated.

1942

1943 :: "The Center," a student center on Mound Avenue in a house formerly owned by Henry Kamm, opened for students and soldiers.

1943 :: Specialized Training Unit

1943 :: Students pose for a Quarterly cover photo.

1947 :: Veteran's housing

1947 :: Youth Radio Forum

1948 :: The College's art department was growing.

1948 :: Coach Joe Brooks

1948 :: Stalwarts of the I Club

1949 :: College men serenade the women during the spring semester.

1940 :: President Hudson strolls on campus with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

1940 :: Third generation first-years Marcy Osborne Jr., Jean Paxson Drury and James Swain.

Mary Katherine Sturdy Kempter

W. Russell Britenstine

1941 :: Tanner Hall

1942 :: IC alumni, faculty and staff served in World War II. Eldon A. Olson ’38 was an ace fighter pilot.

1942 :: English Professor Charles E. Frank enters military service.

1942 :: Football coach enters military service.

1942 :: Sturtevant Hall

1943 :: Professor H. John Stratton, head of the economics department, on leave for war.

1943 :: Dorothy Peterson ’42

1943 :: John Leach Robinson ’40

1943 :: George Henry Harper ’44

1944

1947 :: Mrs. Rammelkamp retires as alumni secretary. She was a longtime editor of the Quarterly.

1948 :: Campus bookstore

1948 :: Football

1948 :: Whipple and Crampton halls