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Thayer, Crane, Heads New Band Training Unit
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.
There's Still A "Tomorrow"
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.
No Death-March, But-
An article that details how Potsdam students could support soldiers such as donating blood and supporting the War Council in selling defense stamps.
We Need Every College Man In Officer's Training To Man the Mightiest Air Army in the World
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.
Sugar Is Rationed to Students
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.
U.S. Stamps Soon on Sale For Students
An article that describes to students the benefits of buying U.S. Defense Stamps, newly offered at that time, by the Potsdam Normal School.
Scraps For Defense
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.