Yesterday, as I walked the dogs in the early morning, there was a chill in the air. It was definitely football weather, I thought to myself. As I made my way to the Pi Beta Phi Archives for an impromptu visit, I opened a 1944 scrapbook which was recently sent by a deceased alumna’s daughter. Looking through it reminded me of how different life was for those women who attended college during World War II. (Recruitment was also different and the newspaper clippings, napkins, nametags and invitations are worthy of another post.)
The graphics of the three football programs she saved were bright and patriotic. One caught my eye. The opponent was not another college, but a group of Navy airmen stationed in Kansas at Naval Air Station Olathe. Under the program she wrote “lots of fun.” Kansas won 33-14.
