ABSTRACT
June 1943. Commencement. A good many of my classmates, as well as the faculty, had already volunteered or had been drafted into military service. Some deferments were allowed on the basis of majoring in science. The class that remained had been reduced to a shadow. Many would come back after the war was over, benefiting from the GI Bill; a few would fall and their names would be preserved in marble on the wall of Appleton Chapel.
