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FROM the floor of the United States Congress as well as in the small town newspaper the word "isolation" has been a constant source of argu- ment and discussion. As it applies to our govern- mental policy we have learned that more im- portant, more precious things must precede it- namely, our national honor and our unshaken faith in the rights and freedoms of Man. To defend those ideals we find ourselves in a battle such as the world has never before seen. Thrusting isolationism into the background with the assault on Pearl Harbor, Western Maryland College, like other colleges and universities from Maine to California, accepted the challenge which aggressor nations tossed at it. Her visible and hidden structures changed; her doors were opened wide to welcome Army men in quest of more in- tensive preparation for the struggle which lay before them. Entering freshmen and returning upperclassmen alike felt keenly the privileges for education which were theirs. We, too, accepted the challenge. And so, with a prayer in our hearts for those of our number who are on fields of battle all over the world, we present the 1944 ALOHA, a pic- torial of a changed, yet changeless, Western Maryland.