Victory Book

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Title: Victory Book

Subject: Mary Washington College Defense Program

Description: A collection of pages from a book of the Mary Washington College’s Defense Program during World War II titled Victory Book. The book detailed images and stories of various actions and events Mary Washington College students did to help the war effort.

Type: Still Image

Source: Simpson Library Special Collections

Citation:
Defense Program, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia. 1942-1945. “Victory Book.” Scrapbook. University of Mary Washington Special Collections and University Archives. Simpson Library Special Collections, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.

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CAMPUS INAUGURATES SALE OF WAR BONDS AND STAMPS FOR ITS SECOND YEAR

The Victory Booth was reopened in front of the College Shoppe on October 9, 1942. Again the defense program was sponsored by Student Government Association. A Chapel program under the direction of Student Government consisted of patriotic songs played by the Mary Washington College Band; a short skit, and quartet singing under the direction of one of the students.

In order that many students might have the chance to participate in the sale of United States War Bonds and Stamps, the Student Council divided the activities into six separate committes. All groups functioned under the direction of the Supervising Committee consisting of Student Council members. The committees designated were: Art Committee, whose function was to make posters, placards and plans for the sale of Christmas Cards containing stamp albums.

The Organization Committee was in charge of organizing volunteers for regular duty at the stamp booth.

The Publicity Committee had as its main duty the constant promotion of War Stamps and Bonds on teh hill

The Radio Committee publicized the sales by weekly announcements over the M. W. C. radio program hour.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT SPONSORS DEFENSE PROGRAM JAN.23,1942 FACULTY ADVISOR DR. EDWARD ALVEY

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[Image of eagle with the word ‘PLEDGE]

TO EVERY SOLDIER, SAILOR AND MARINE WHO IS FIGHTING FOR MY COUNTRY

For you there can be no rest. For me there should be no vacation from the part I can play to help win the war. I therefore solemnly promise to continue to buy United States War Savings Stamps and Bonds to the limit of my ability, and & throughout my summer vacation and until our Victory is won.

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College Spirit at Stamp Booth Installation

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The Bullet, Student Weekly of Mary Washington College, Friday, January 30, 1942

Victory Booth Does A Good Business Bullet Clippings

Total Amounts To Over $314

The first week for the sale of defense bonds and stamps on the campus of Mary Washington college is now ended. In this first week the Victory booth outside the C o l l e g e Shoppe door has done a remarkable business. On Wednesday the 23, there were seventy nine dollars worth of stamps sold. The total for the week amounts to over three hundred and fourteen dollars.

Dr. Alvey announced these figures in convocation on Wednesday night and congratulated the student body on their obvious systematic saving.

This campaign, however, is by no means over. The Victory booth will remain for the duration. Students and faculty are urged to continue their fine work in this line and to keep ’em rolling to keep ’em flying.

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Friday, May 15, 1942, PLEDGE, To Every Soldier, Sailor and Marine Who Is Fighting For My Country

FOR YOU there can be no rest. For me there should be no vacation from the part I can play to help win the war. I therefore solemnly promise to continue to buy United States War Savings Stamps and Bonds to the limit of my ability throughout my summer vacation and until our Victory is won.

“To every soldier, sailor and marine who is fighting for my country”–every Mary Washington girl will have the opportunity of pledging her continued help during the summer vacation when M. W. C. Pledge Day is held next Tuesday from 8 A. M. until 6 P. M.

During that time the War Savings Stamp Booth will be located on the main campus in front of Chandler Hall and will be the Pledge Day headquarters. Every student can secure her red, white and blue pledge card from the Student Garden and Y. W. C. A. girls who will be at the booth during the day.

To all girls who call for their pledges, a red , white and blue ribbon will be given to be worn as an indication of their patriotism and eagerness to help the “boys who said goodbye” The object is to have 1700 girls wearing the colors before the end of the day denoting their pledges to continue supporting the armed forces throughout the summer.

Pledge Day will give Mary Washington as a group the opportunity of expressing its united support of the war effort

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Friday, January 23, 1942, SALE OF BONDS AND STAMPS POPULAR WITH STUDENTS, First Day Sale Nets $60

A campaign has started on the hill for the sale of Defense Bonds and Stamps among college faculty and students.

At Convocation on January 21, Dr. Alvey launched the program to be sponsored by the Student Government Association.

..On the program was the Mary Washington Band with Kay Critchett, Jane Keefer, and Elizabeth Winfree singing “Any Bonds Today?”, a group from the readio broadcasting class including Jean Ivory, Nancy Duval, Peggy Moran, Kitty Murphy, Lee Hall and Kathy Adams discussed, rather informally, the meaning of defense bonds and stamps. Miss Virginia Urbin spoke also, representing the Student Government Association.

Dr. Alvey outlined the plan to be adopted here for the duration concerning the buying of defense stamps. He told the students there would be a booth outside the College Shoppe door for the purchasing of stamps at any time during the day. He emphasized the need for organizing saving to provide a regular amount to be allotted to stamps every week.

Miss Urbin concluded by adding what part of the Student Government Association would play in the campaign and the support and the support and cooperation that was needed and expected from every one on the hill.

End of Article

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Bonds!!

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THE WASHINGTON POST, SATURDAY. APRIL 10. 1943

Leaders in M.W. College Bond Queen Contest

NEW KIND OF QUEEN CROWNED–Miss Catherin Chambliss (seated third from right) won the title of Mary Washington College Bond Queen in a new kind of campus contest. Leaders in the war bond and stamps sales drive were (left to right) Miss Sara Davis, Miss Chambliss, Miss Toni SMith and Miss Daphne Crump. In foreground, Miss Monika Dahl. The contest was sponsored by the Fredericksburg college’s weekly newspaper

CATHERINE CHAMBLISS

BOND QUEEN

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THINK BEFORE VOTING! WHO WILL BE BOND QUEEN

The Bullet

USE YOUR CENTS–

Make Your Pennies Talk!

The Bullet is joining the Associated Collegiate Press and the Collegiate Digest in promoting the sale of War Bonds and Stamps on the college campus by sponsoring the NATIONAL BOND QUEEN CAMPAIGN here at Mary Washington. The contest runs for five weeks, beginning February 15 and ending March 19, 1943.

Nominations will be taken in the dining room Saturday night and students may be added to the list up until 5:00 p. m. Sunday night. (see Editor.) The local candidates are to be nominated on the basis of beauty and popularity alone. The candidates may be nominated by any student or organized group or faction. Their class standing has nothing to do with the contest. (However Mary Washington College can combine beauty and brans in her Bond Queen!)

Students and faculty may vote for their candidate or their choice on or after February 15 and up to and including March 19, at the Stamp Booth at the time of a purchase of a stamp or bond. Each ten cent stamp entitles the purchases to ten votes, each twenty-five stamp to twenty-five votes, etc. If you bought a bond that would entitle you to 1,875 votes and you could stuff the ballot box. The girl receiving the greatest number of votes at the end of five weeks will be your Campus Bond Queen. In case of a tie, the Bullet staff will select the winner.

The winner here will have her picture sent to Associated Collegiate Press and will be entered in the national contest. The semi-finalists in this group, five per cent of the total entries, will be selected by a group of professional photographers on the basis of photogenic qualities. The Bond Queen will be selected from this field by the same judges and she will be presented with a $50.00 War Bond by the Associated Press and Collegiate Digest. Pictures of the semi-finalists will appear in the Collegiate Digest and the Bond Queen will have her picture on the cover of Collegiate Digest the following issue. Be thinking who you want to nominate!

Bond Queen Contest

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OUR SPRING OFFENSIVE–THE SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE

Did you draw a circle around April 12th on your calendar? That day opened the Second War Loan Drive, a drive born of desperate need to foot the growing war bill. The goal is $13,000,000,000 which is a lot fo money even if you say it fast. It will take every American to make this drive a success. That means you–ever student, faculty member and staff member on our campus.

This is our Spring Drive to bring the Battle Front and the Home Front into even closer cooperation. “They Give Their Lives–We Lend Our Money” is the slogan. And for the women of the country there is still another slogan, which is in itself a program of action: “Outfit the Outfit”, to “buy” through purchase of War Bonds and Stamps the equipment for two billion fighting men.

So before you put out a dollar for personal frippery, think that $1.05 buys a steel helmet for a soldier. Before you spend a quarter for a movie, that that 27c buys a first-aid pouch for a soldier. Every ten dollar dress is worth an Army woolen overcoat; every six dollar sweater a Field Jacket. The soldiers need all those things. Do you need everything you buy?

The bonds your parents buy are not your contribution. Put yourself and your allowance on a war-time basis. There was a time when that allowance was for fun and foibles. And to that end–from now until the war is won–let your conscience, not you whims, decide your spending. To put is baldly, will you buy stomach-aches or submarines?

Your colleagues have left the football field for the battle field, the study of geography for the making of geography. They are the major actors in the theatre of war. But for every major actors there must be off-stage assistance. That is where you come in. You and every American. It is the very essence of Democracy that everyone should have a part to play, a chance to help.

Our future is in the hands of our fighting men and their future, in part, is in our pocket-books. The country’s fate depends on both.

Join this Second War Loan Drive with everything you have. Make your dollars fighting dollars to help the fighting men. Be able to face Johnnie when he comes marching home again, with your head high and the right to say, “I, too, have sacrificed. I, too, in my own way, have fought beside you.”

Remember the goal: total participation to help raise $13,000,000,000, to be invested in Government Securities.

Remember the slogan: “They Give Their Lives–We Lend Our Money.’ ‘

Remember the theme: “Outfit the Outfit. Back Up Your Man In The Service.

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Stamps!!

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GOVERNOR PRESENTS MINUTE MAN FLAG

GOVERNOR PRESENTS MINUTE MAN FLAG. Dr. Morgan L. Combs (right), president of Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, receives from Governor Colgate Darden of Virginia the Treasury Department Flag signifying ninety percent participation of faculty and staff in payroll allotment plan for purchase of war bonds. Students, represented by Henrietta Hoylman (left) and Virginia Morgan, have also pledged to purchase stamps and bonds systmatically.

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STAMP & BOND

Jan-Jun ’42 $ 1,27,4.45

1942-42 7,795.94

1943-44 9,312.70

1944-45 26,790.55

TOTAL $45,173.64

STUDENTS

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THE FLAG GOES UP !!

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The Bullet

With a bang-up Chapel program, Mary Washington’s 1943 Campaign for the sale of stamps and bonds got under-way Friday. The band opened the program to the tune of the M.W. Marching Song.

On display was the blue and white Schools at War flag presented to the students last spring by the United States Treasury Department after they had attained a ninety-five per cent average in systematic stamp buying.

Willa Jones, treasurer of the Student Government Association, and chairman of the committee in charge of maintaining the stamp booth outside of the College Shoppe, spoke to the Chapel assembly. She stressed the importance of opening a second front right on our campus to fight the Axis. She reminded the students that it was up to them to keep the Schools at War flag flying on the Mary Washington campus. Within two weeks she said that there would be given to the students the opportunity to pledge to buy stamps regularly in the dorms

The stamp booth has been redecorated in red, white, and blue paper and is open for business each day in the week from 8:30 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. except Sundays. The girls from Cornell are manning the booth for the first two weeks of the drive which will last all the school year.

Emphasis is being placed on class spirit and a chart has been posted over the booth with spaces for figures to be pasted on. Each figure represents $10. It’s up to each class to try to have its members buy the most stamps and have the most figures opposite its name.

“If you want them back–BACK them up!”

STAMP DRIVE OPENS WITH CLASS CONTEST

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DEVIL-GOAT RALLY!

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Summer Auction ’44

The entire Student body participated in a Bond Auction here on the Campus July 4, 1944. The rally was sponsored by the Cavalry troop of Mary Washington College and its members acted as runners for the auction. Mr. Wather, our equitation director, was the auctioneer for the occasion. Donations for the auction were procured from the members of the faculty who cooperated to their fullest. Dinners in the homes of faculty members, movie dates with the professors (whether married or single) home-cooked food. by the male members, diving hall were among the contributions. The students bids ran as high as $1,000 bonds. Some of the less fortunate ones pooled their money and enjoyed the winnings together the total receipts of the day amounted to approximately $3,500. The auction was held in the college amphitheater.

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$1,000 BOND

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Organization of Stamp Sales 1944-45

How did Mary “Ashington College get the Minute Man flag and keep it? At the beginning of each fall term, each individual signs a pledge to buy so many stamps a week. Hall montors in the dormitories deliver the pledged stamps on an assigned night each week and collect the money. Stamps booths serve students who live outside the dorms and the stamp booth attendant records the name of each purchaser.

The Student Government Association assumes leadership and direction of the over-all plan. The Treasurer of the organization serves as the Chairman of the Student War Savings Committee. The Dean of the college serves as faculty advisor. The pledge cards are distributed bu the house president of each of the eight dorms. Weekly distribution of stamps and collection of money is handled by the house president, who in turn deals with the treasurer. Each of the eight dorms take turns manning the stamp booth for one week at a time.

All types of publicity are coordinated by the Student War Savings Organization, too. The college newspaper the college broadcasting system, the special events committee and theart department all pitch in.

The flag continues to fly at Mary Washington College because our organization is sound and always on its toes. The regular sale of stamps and bonds by the overwhelming

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STAMP BUYING IN CHAPEL

Dramatic Students Put On “THE FAVOR”