Fall 1995

Features

The Big One
The start of World War II brought enormous changes to GW. Air raid drills, thousands of students leaving for the front, the campus filled with soldiers taking special military couses...it was an extraordinary time.
Marc Leepson, BA'67, MA'71

The Home Front
Tales of Life in Foggy Bottom during the war, as recounted by the men and women who lived it.

Missing After Half a Century
Poem by Jody Bolz, assistant professor of English

Letter to a Fallen Flier
By Elsie May Day Windel, a Navy nurse who studied at GW, 1943- 1944.

War Stories
From Normandy to New Guinea, these Colonials fought with courage and skill, while keeping a much-needed sense of humor.

Foggy Bottom on the GI Bill
When Johnny came marching home, he found a campus that was overcrowded but welcoming to veterans. Eager to make up for "lost time," these vets worked hard and brought a war-weary toughness to college life.

Departments

GW News

• University Stops Recruiting Controversial Athlete
• GW's Solar Car Takes a 1st
• Taking a Spring Break - From Partying
• GW Welcomes Top Basketball Recruits
• Talented Freshman Class Enrolls
• Going for Pembroke (GW students study at Oxford)
• SBPM Means Business
• The 175th Anniversary Calendar

Alumni Newsmakers

• Dee Brown BA '36 (wrote When the Century Was Young)
• Eduardo A. Peniche AA '66 (The Dream of an Eagle)

A Faculty for Writing / Book Review Page

• Edward Berkowitz, Mr. Social Security
• Faye Moskowitz, Her Face in the Mirror
• Hugh Agnew, Origins of the Czech National Renascence

Speak Out and Viewpoint

• Reflections on th Enola Gay Debate
  Ronald H. Spector
• (Guest Column) Underdogs and Second Chances
  William Raspberry

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