During World War II, IU became the first state university in the country to achieve 100 percent participation by faculty in a campaign to sell war stamps and bonds. Pictured here in this photo shot at the Indiana Memorial Union in Bloomington in the early 1940s are H.T. Briscoe, IU’s academic vice president, followed by a group of students ready to purchase war stamps and bonds. The university also worked with the Army Institute in arranging and making available correspondence study courses to those in military service. Additionally, IU assumed the directorship of a blood donor center for the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross and “loaned” both staff and faculty to government and the armed services. IU coeds sent letters to the parents of students who had withdrawn from school to go to war; one such letter at the IU Archives is signed by Kit Katz on behalf of “the women of Indiana University.” “While the boys are away from the campus,” she wrote, “we women students are taking advantage of all the university facilities at our disposal so that, along with the men in service, we may not be unworthy of some part in the post-war reconstruction.”