DEDICATION of
the
1946 When boys, and girls too, were leaving our campus for distant places where war is taught, and when word came that alumni were going also, we knew that some of them would never return. We knew it, yet we did not know it as we do now.
Each death brought a new sense of loss,- a knowledge that something tre-
mendous and overwhelming had happened, and that we could do nothing about it. Anything we tried to do was so little in the face of the sacrifice they had madethe courage and bravery and quiet heroism they had shown. And today we feel we still owe them a debt we can never pay. Because of our debt, we must attempt to finish the task they started-of making a new, clean, iust world for tomorrow. To the twelve men and one girl who will never return to Otterbein as students to share in classes, and chapel, and serenades, and ball games, and all the many events and memories that make up college life- who will never return as alumni to talk over old times and cheer once again and sing the love song with their former classmates- to our thirteen honored dead, we humbly and reverently dedicate this book.
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I. C. DWIGHT ASHCRAFT
8. GEORGE C. DAGRES
2. RALPH N. CASPER
9. JAMES R. CHRISMAN
3. GEORGE D. METZGER
IO. D. JANE BURDGE
4. JOHN A. WAGNER, JR.
11. DONALD R. JOHNSON
5. J. CHARLES HOPPER
12. EDWARD NAGEL
6. D. RICHARD LeBLANC
13. KENNETH E. SHOEMAKER
7. GEORGE M. BISHOP
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