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An article encouraging Seniors in college, or any college student who was prepared to leave school to join the War, to enter what was then a new program for training men to enter the Army Air Force.

An article that details a yearly campaign to raise money for the Julia E. Crane loan fund through the Crane Department of Music. The article goes on to relay that year’s campaign to receive war stamps to fill books that would in turn be turned into…

An article that describes the decrease in college enrollment countrywide as more and more men enlisted with the Armed Forces during WWII.

An article that describes to students the benefits of buying U.S. Defense Stamps, newly offered at that time, by the Potsdam Normal School.

An article published in the Potsdam school newspaper, the Racquette, in 1944 that draws attention to an editorial from the Racquette written in 1928 that encourages readers to have hopes for a better world tomorrow.

An article dictating that Captain Lynn W. Thayer, a graduate of the Crane Department of Music in 1925, was appointed director of the Army Band Training Unit in Camp Lee Virginia.

An article that warns of the distribution of food stamp books, the necessary registration for these books, and also describes how these books were to be used to keep track of the rationing of sugar.

This survey was conducted to gather student opinion on whether or not to bomb the cities of Japan during World War II.

An article that describes efforts made by Potsdam State Teachers College to mail mimeographed letters to servicemen and women regarding news of the college as well as personal letters from friends at the college.

An article relating to plans, coordinated by the Defense Council of Potsdam Normal, to collect waste paper from individuals and group houses to sell in order to raise money for defense work during World War II.