You shouldn’t judge books by their cover, of course, let alone a community or a nation. But if you take a glance at this cover and foolishly try to glean something from the design about the country in 1941 you’d be both right and wrong. These were pastoral times in an idyllic place.
As you look at the covers from the next three years, uncertain years, war years, you’d never know what was happening in the world. Of course you couldn’t get away from the news anywhere else. Who needs a reminder on the cover of a yearbook? Inside the pages the drum beat could be heard. Male students were still required to take a compulsory enrollment in the ROTC. For all of the fun and games inside the pictures, there must have been something real and tense about their drills.
As this period was a turning point for the country, these were also important years for the school. Times in the state were changing when it came to how the various schools were perceived, and maybe you can find a little of that in these three new additions to the covers collection.
If you’d like to start at the beginning, go here. For a slightly more in-depth look into a few of the books, try here. As always, check out the university’s collection as well.
