WJON — St. Cloud State University is nearing the end of a year-long sesquicentennial celebration. Once a month since last August Archivist Tom Steman has been a guest on the News @ Noon Show on WJON talking about different aspects of the school’s history.
Tuesday the topic was life on campus during World War II. SCSU History Grad Kayla Stielow says back then not all the women here at home went off to work.
“The story of young women during World War II is that they all went to work, and these women stayed in school, which is really interesting, but to say that they were not involved in the war is not true. They were really active in supporting the war effort. There was blood drives, scrap metal drives, air raid drills …”
