regardless of the year.
Dormitory Life Changes Little Through Years
As the United States returned to normal life after the war, the tide of veterans enrolling under the "GI Bill" taxed the teaching resources of the University to the limit.
During this period of leadership changes, UK sports were leading the Southeastern Conferences. The Wildcats captured six conference championships. Three of these successful seasons came in war years when it was uncertain whether there would even be a team. In football, the outstanding achievement came when Clyde Johnson, Ashland, became the first UK Wildcat in 51 years of the gridiron sport here to be named All-American. Other memorable sports events during these years were the basketball Sugar Bowl victory over Pittsburgh, in 1939, the golf team undefeated in '41, and boxing entertained SEC fans for the last time in 1940.
The late thirties and early forties found campus activities multiplying. The first issue of Sour Mesh, a campus humor magazine supervised by Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism honorary, appeared. In 1937, the national history honorary, Phi Alpha Theta, was established at UK. Some memorable changes were made in '38 when the "Grill" was founded and the cafeteria was moved from McVey Hall to the SUB. That year the Student Union Board also began operation. Establishment of student government was the big event of 1939.
Hemlines may rise and fall, but the spirit of group activity never alters.