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of honor at the banquet and will add further to this big, delightful
and colorful affair. We also close our successful football season
Friday night with the Kansas City Kansas Junior College game. The
soldiers already in attendance here will be in an adjoining rooting
section in the stadium and will help us win.

But the giving up of the Gymnasium, which will mean, as already
stated, the suspension of our varsity athletic program, will not mark
the end of our athletic activities. The giving over of the Gymnasium
to the Army will suspend only our Varsity athletic program. However,
we had anticipated such suspension at the close of our present foot-
ball season. The calling of the 18 and 19 year old boys will so de-
plete our boy enrollment that a varsity program would not be possi-
ble. Since the civilian enrollment from now on will be practically
all girls, we are planning an extensive intramural athletic program
this coming spring. Coach White will be transferred to the Army
School and succeeded in the Civilian School by a well-qualified woman
athletic director. The different State Clubs will organize soft .
ball, volley ball and soccer teams. We have and will maintain, of
course, our battery for five excellent tennis courts and will hold
the Annual State Club Tennis Tournament in August. The Annual State
Club Swimming Meet will again be held in July and in the spring we
will have the girl events in our Annual State Club Track and Field
Meet. It is also planned to introduce archery and perhaps fencing.

And we will go ahead with our band, drum corps, orchestra, glee
clubs, etc. These organizations are already eighty percent girls.
And we are continuing The Dux, our college year book, The Quacker,
our little school paper, and the other publications. The college
assemblies are being held in the large Commercial Department in Com-
merce Hall where a low stage has been built and where we have in-
stalled the public address system formerly in the college auditor-
ium. The State Clubs will furnish as usual the social life for the
school and campus and our Student Christian Association and our local
churches will continue to take care of our students' spirtual wel-
fare. Yes, and at The Armory will be held occasionally some very de-
lightful social affairs while many of the girls will also be invited
to serve as hostesses and assistants at Chillicothe's USO or sold-
iers' recreational center.

Now then for the housing:

The Army does not permit its trainees to be assigned to rooming
houses but they must be quartered in authorized barracks and where
they are constantly under Army supervision and discipline. Included
in the Army restrictions is a ten o'clock bed check six days of the
week and furthermore, the Army school program is eight hours a day,
and an additional hour for physical training, all this six days a
week. (And in the physical training program our splendid stadium and
athletic field continues in good and patriotic use.) The only build-
ing on the campus converted into barracks is the Gymnasium-Auditor-
ium. We have under contract the City Hall Auditorium and the Strand
Hotel Garage and on December lst, we take over The Strand Hotel, Chil-
licothe's newest fireproof hotel. These buildings are down town and
a half mile off campus. They will be used as additional barracks as
we get farther and farther into this new and big Army School program,

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