This week’s trip through the archives uncovers stories about the origins of a trauma awareness program, a campus immunization campaign, a German student’s impressions of postwar America, and the construction of an early athletic facility.
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The article, appearing below a photo of Cliff Brubaker injecting a hog, continues: “Mrs. Miriam Kauffman, college nurse, has ordered 1,200 doses to be distributed free to staff, faculty, and students between the ages of 18 and 65.”
On that note, don’t forget to get your flu shot if you haven’t already!
An American Studies student from Germany, where World War II had ended just six years earlier, recounts his experiences arriving by ship in New York, traveling through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.—where “there are more cars on the streets than pedestrians”—and settling into campus life at Eastern Mennonite.
“I enjoy my study, campus life, and also the food, which is not too different from that at home,” he writes. “I am thankful and glad to be here.”
According to a story in the Crossroads archive, “students and faculty built a barn-looking wooden ‘exercise hall’ in 1926.”
“A twister felled it four years later,” the story continues. “Its replacement in 1930 was a cinder block building about 2/3 the size of a regular gym, with no space for spectators.”
We’ve come a long way since then!
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