G.I. applicants from the late ’40s, clockwise, above, from top left:
Leland Weller ’50, served in the Army during WWII, made the Dean’s List and played intramural football and basketball;
Herma Scheeper ’51, a Marine Corps Women’s Reserve member, president of the Women’s Athletic Association and the Awards Club;
James E. Talton ’50, a Tuskegee Airman who wrote for The Whit, played varsity baseball and made the Dean’s List three years in a row;
Navy veteran Edward Oliva ’49, better known as Eddie, a football star and orchestra vice president;
Joseph Enoch Turner ’50, nicknamed “Nucky,” served in the Army in Italy during WWII, played violin and was a Whit dorm reporter and humor writer;
WWII Navy veteran Warren Charles Nutt ’50, a musician, athlete and science teacher who earned a Ph.D.
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