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A short article that details the suspension of class activities for one hour by the Potsdam State Teachers College in order for students to have the opportunity to attend church services in observance of the Allied invasion of Europe.

A short article that assures readers of the safe investment made by the Student Faculty Association in their purchase of a $1,000 war bond.

An advertisement that encourages the purchase war bonds and stamps to support the war effort.

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 illustrates the success of Potsdam’s first air raid drill as well as notations to the general instructions for the drills made by Dr. T. R. Miller, the man in charge of the air raid drills at the college.

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 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 that details how Potsdam students could support soldiers such as donating blood and supporting the War Council in selling defense stamps.

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 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.