OCTOBER 17, 1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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'School Days We Love 'Em.' Say Coed Veterans as They Return
Howland Wins Bet For Return in '45
BY MARIAN THOMSON (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
Three WAC's, a SPAP, and a WAVE.
These are K.U.'s five coed veterans. In three countries, they chalked up a total of almost 10 years in the service. Now they say, "School days—we love 'em."
Last month, Helen Carpenter, College junior, was in Paris. Leaving Southampton, England, Sept. 5, aboard the Queen Mary with the first large group of WAC's sent home from Europe, she received her discharge Sept. 14, at Ft. Sheridan, Ill., with 53 points. Four days later, she came to K.U., to major in psychology.
"We spent those first two weeks in tents, and our cooks specialized in powdered potatoes, powdered milk, and powdered eggs," she said today. Language Is a Barrier
Enlisting in May, 1943. Miss Carpenter was sent to London six months later. In September, 1944, she went to Normandy by plane, with the general communications headquarters of the army of occupation.
In Paris, she lived with 400 other WAC's at the Windsor hotel, which was staffed with French chambermaids, chefs, and valets who didn't understand English.
"Language was a big barrier to our fraternizing with the French, as we had the English," Miss Carpenter sorted. "Only about 20 per cent the people in Paris spoke English
The 2,000 WAC's in Paris admired the French women's figures, faces, and fashions, but were amazed by their hair, Miss Carpenter declared. Coiffures ranged from lond, to red, to purple, to black, with some two-tone effects, such as purple and white, while a few even achieved startling patriotic red, white, and blue hair.
"After a while, we didn't notice the bombs, and couldn't tell whether they were coming or going," she continued.
In England during the "buzz" bomb campaign "alert" sirens and "immediate danger" bells clamored few few minutes, causing more commotion than the bombs did, Miss Carpenter said.
Sees University of Paris
Miss Carpenter saw the famed University of Paris which, when she left, was housing 3,000 American troops.
"The French want to reopen the university, which is even more beautiful than Mt. Oread, but when I left our troops were still sitting tight," she said.
"Getting back into the swing o school and studying is not as hard as they told us it would be," Miss Carpenter remarked.
Another WAC veteran, Edna Cain College freshman, plans to be a medical technician.
When Miss Cain makes the 14th street grind in an early-morning fog from the Kaw, she remembers a steeper hill and a fog "so thick you
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The fog and the hill were near Oxford, England, at High Wychomb, where Miss Cain was stationed a year ago.
"We called ourselves the 'army mountain goats' at High Wychomb, Miss Cain remembers. "The hill was so steep Cain they had to give us an hour and a half to climb back to our barracks for lunch."
Miss Cain Visits Eaton
Visiting Eaton, Miss Cain saw a room in which it was traditional for all the man who were graduated to carve their names. Half of the room had been destroyed by bombs. Only boys too young to fight or work were left in school.
Miss Cain tells of seeing husky farm girls, in special uniform with boots, brown levis and shirts, and green-banded hats, pitching hay and running the farms while their men were gone. All girls not in the service or factories were drafted for farm work.
Near London, at Teddington, where she first was stationed with the Eighth air force dental service, Miss Cain once became lost in a mid-afternoon fog.
"We were making the 20-minute walk from the field in to town, when my flashlight burned out," she explained. "Hanging on to each other, we groped our way, we didn't know where, until we met a soldier who led us back to our camoufagged barracks, with the aid of his flashlight."
Air Raids Were Routine
Air raids are routine at Teddington, Miss Cain says. Several times at night, MP's would bang on the barracks doors, calling the field's presenelon to airraid shelters, warning, "Come out, or we'll come in." The field was hit several times by incendiary and anti-personnel bombs, but no one was hurt.
Miss Cain was entertained in several English homes. "The English are lovely people, but they never really did accept us," she comments. "One day in London, as two RAF fliers passed me on the street, I heard one say, 'There's nothing wrong with the Yanks, except there are too d—— many of them.'"
Miss Cain returned to the United States and received her discharge in February, after two years of service.
Joy Howland, College junior, won,
but has not collected, a bet made
with a prominent College official,
when she joined the SPAR's in
March, 1943, that she "would be
back in school by the-fail of 1945."
Howland First to Leave
Majoring in journalism, Miss Howland was the first woman to
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University Students Need 12 More Apartments
FRIDAY - SATURDAY "ARSON SQUAD"
"Blazing Western Trail"
"There is still a shortage of at least 12 apartments for University students." Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, announced today.
leave the University for the service. She edited the first newspaper, the "Conning Tower," at Hunter college, in New York City, where she received her basic training.
She was associate editor of the Iowae, at yeoman school in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and was associate editor of the Cutter, published at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she was stationed for about a year and a half. She received her discharge in February.
NEW SERIAL "JUNGLE QUEEN"
"Anyone who knows of an apartment which would be available now or at a future date, should let us know as soon as possible," Dean Werner said.
In Washington, Miss Howland met Frances Welty, College freshman who was in the WAVE's.
Enlisting in April, 1943, Miss Welty attended basic training at Hunter college, and medical corpsman school in Sampson, New York. After being an attendant at the St. Albans naval hospital, she was transferred to a New London, Conn., submarine base, where she spent three months as a physical therapy assistant.
Miss Welty was a pharmacist mate first class when she received a medical discharge in March. Cooper Plays Three Roles.
She was a guest at the commissioning of the destroyer escort Grady, at the Brooklyn navy yard, and at New London was taken on a tour of a submarine, back from action in the Pacific.
Student, wife, and mother is the triple role of Mrs. Cecil E. Cooper, Jr., graduate student, who was discharged from the WAC in November last year.
Enlisting in December, 1943, Mrs. Cooper was a medical technician at Peterson field, Colorado Springs, Colo., where she met her husband, who is a sophomore in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Mrs. Cooper is studying advertising, in addition to caring for her home and her 3-months-old daughter, Connie. She was graduated from the University of South Dakota, a home economics major.
JUST IN——
We have just received shipment of several items in the way of athletic goods. Several scarce items now included in our stock are—
Sweat Shirts
Sweat Pants
Athletic Shoes
Gym Pants
Ping Pong Balls
Ping Pong Paddles
Tennis Rackets
Sweat Sox
Also MacGregor and Wilson Bros. Sportswear.
Four-Week Grades Due for Advisers
Examinations are being given this week in most freshman-sophomore classes in the College to determine four-week grades, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, said today.
Reports are due in the College office Monday. Freshmen and sophomores with unsatisfactory grades will
be required to see their advisers Oct.29 and 30.
The bulletin board outside the College office will shown names of students who must see their advisers. Underclassmen will consult their advisers at midsemester regardless of grades. The four-week plan was adopted from the military divisions on the campus, Dean Ulmer said. He believes the earlier conferences have helped more students adjust to college courses than did the former midsemester practice.
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