Class of 1939 Reunion

Class of '39- L to R

Margaret Brand Spandau, Carolyn DeJean Haag, Bobbie Jones Hill-Cloud Knapke (chair), Marty Bunch, Peg Aspinall Snyder

Saturday, October 3, 2009

11:30am       Seating as a class at the Homecoming Luncheon 
                                 * Campus Center Main Dining Room

1:30pm         Dessert and Cash Bar following Homecoming Luncheon 
                                   * Campus Center Alumni Lounge

1:40pm         Class Photo

1944 MEMORY BOOK

College Life in 1944

• Enrollment was 164 – 24 men and 140 women – of whom 32 were seniors. There was a faculty and staff of 23 on a campus of 200 acres.
• Tuition was $200, room was $80 to $100, board was $210, and fees were $25 per year. There was a radio charge of $2.50, as well as laboratory fees for certain courses.
• For every 15 absences from class, a student lost one semester hour towards graduation. A student absent from the last recitation before a recess or the first recitation after a recess in any course received double cuts. After ten absences from Chapel, .05 was deducted from a student's grade point average for each absence. Triple cuts were given for absence from the special academic assemblies held occasionally during the year.
• Dorms closed on Monday through Thursday at 10:00 p.m., on Friday and Saturday at 11:00 p.m., except after Hanover dances when dorms closed at midnight and after dances held in Madison when dorms closed at 12:45 a.m., and on Sunday at 10:30 p.m. No social events were allowed to be held from Monday morning through Friday noon.
• Quiet hours were from 8:00 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday, from 7:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Monday through Thursday, and before 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Sundays. No telephone calls were allowed during these hours. No typing permitted after 11:00 p.m.
• Dean's permission, as well as a sign-out card, was required for all trips out of town, including Madison, except to go home.
• Late permission (a one hour's extension for closing) was granted to seniors once a week and to juniors twice a month, but could not be taken after a dance.
• An open house could be held by fraternities on two nights per week, Sunday and either Friday or Saturday night with the permission of the Dean of Women. Dates were confined to the first floor and only where adequate lighting and official chaperones were present.
• No dates were allowed during the week except between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. for all freshmen girls and for all sophomores and juniors not having a 1.5 G.P.A. on a 3.0 scale.
• No cars were allowed on campus after February 1, 1941.
• Meals were served family style. A dress and heels were required for women and suits were required for men at dinner every night.
• Beds were to be made by noon each day and no electrical appliances were allowed.
• The 1944 Revonah fraternity pictures showed 1 man from Beta Theta Pi, no men from Lambda Chi Alpha, 6 men from Phi Delta Theta, 3 men from Phi Gamma Delta, and 3 men from Sigma Chi.
• Hanover Traditions: There was no smoking on campus. There was no athletic activity on Sunday. Freshmen wore their "beanies" with pride. No activities were permitted that prevented a student from doing full justice to his or her courses.

1944--Memories of Hanover
 Football games, BOII Fraternity, Playing trumpet in the band, hanging out at the campus cabin, the spring dances, the big fire at Classic Hall.
-Jack Heskett

I joined the Presbyterian Church the year that I enrolled at Hanover College in the fall of 1940. Dr. Westington was my advisor. He registered me in Latin and Greek classes and he taught them. I remember him being a great advisor and teacher and having parties in his home. I also remember working in the biology lab for Dr. Hyatt, Biology Professor. In December 1942, I remember Clasics Hall burning. Classes were held in different homes that year. My senior year at Hanover, I joined the Phi Mu Sorority. I graduated from Hanover in 1944 with a Bachelor's Degree in Latin, Green and Biology. During the summer of 1944, I remember waiting tables for a Hanover College church convention. I also worked that summer at Ingles Drug Store in Madison. Upon graduation from Hanover College, my first years of teaching Latin & Biology was at Aurora, IN.
-Corine Clements