The dawn of a new millennium seems an appropriate time to remember our past. This story is the second of a series that will take a closer look at DePauw's history. Today, we are focusing on a specific point in the 1940s. The Barn was established by the Association of Women Students as a social center and makeshift student union building.
College life is sometimes like a phonograph record, playing much the same turn every cycle.
This year, however, there were several new notes. The quote appeared in the 1942-43 Mirage yearbook, and could not be more accurate. As students returned to good old Greencastle they found themselves thrown out of the DePauw bubble and into a world at war. And, as DePauw went to war, the war came to DePauw. In January, men from the U.S. Navy's V-5 program arrived on campus.