The Ursinus Weekly, March 6, 1944

Drive extended to obtain $2000 for fighter plane • Navy plans to continue college training program • Dr. W. D. Fuller will speak at forum this Wednesday • Twenty-five graduated at mid-year exercises; Philadelphia surgeon speaks • Thirty colleges to hold model United Nations conference March 30 • Educated women needed now in armed forces, later in post-war work • Navy men shifted to other units • Wilmer Knight \u2741, killed in action on Italian front • Dr. Garrett discusses France Forever conference • Loraine Walton appointed assistant editor of Ruby • May pageant deadline set; rules announced by dean • Warning to men: Lorelei is March 18 • French Club hears lecture • Army-Navy qualifying test will be given at Ursinus • Betty Tyson to review poetry • Hart and Hudson lead services • Pre-meds to hear doctor • Need for Christianity stressed at vespers • Girls\u27 basketball team ties Penn with foul shot in closing seconds • Ursinus deadlocks Bryn Mawr after trailing, 8-6, at halftime • Second team trims Bryn Mawr sextette • Girls\u27 third team defeats Main Liners by two points • Groups plan semester work at Y retreat yesterdayhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1725/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, December 13, 1943

Successful ball has Christmas setting, breakfast at 11 p.m. • Seasonal programs to end with candlelight service • 1-A engineers may join Army corps • Girls fill positions on Weekly staffs • Ursinus choir to join with N.Y. soloists in traditional Messiah presentation • Dr. Nevin Harner speaks to students about faith • Thespians try out for Jupiter Laughs • Y has Christmas tea; students entertain • Mrs. McClure to entertain college women next week • IRC to admit new members • Students may give blood to Red Cross this week • Men and women will have annual banquet together • Student contributions help war fund go over the top • French Club will feature Christmas program tonight • Women begin basketball practice; first team loses three players • Bill Shope\u27s club rises in intramural standings • Basketball varsity downs slower faculty quintette • Second team has hopes for successful season • Nat Hogeland played on all teams while a Phys. Ed. major at Ursinus • Freshmen report for girls\u27 basketball • Mid Halbruegge heads jayvee net-swishers • Coeds make plan to have interdorm games this year • Phys. Ed seniors discuss camps, playgrounds, schools • Do you need to relax? Try rec center - tonight • Students see collection of old editions of books • Devotions well attended • Mrs. Helfferich gives talk • Sergeant Gensler marries Jane Burton of Wyncotehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1721/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 20, 1944

Campus heads plan full calendar for student activities • \u27Players\u27 are chosen by Curtain Club \u27stars\u27 under revised system • Three more students receive recognition in Who\u27s Who • Len Mayfair is scheduled for senior ball with Miles of Melody orchestra, Dec. 8 • Sororities accept 18 pledges Friday • Brass quartet plays at Thanksgiving service • Fleet men interviewed represent land, sea, air phases of U.S. Navy • WSSF send relief to allied students • No nails, no tape -- rooms are decorated • Prospective debaters to meet with Betsy Shumaker tonight • WAA plans hockey play day to precede traditional banquet • Six new practice teachers start at Norristown, C-T High Schools • Navy forecast: cloudy this week • German soldier • Snell\u27s Belles triumph over Drexel 7-0 for second win of hockey season • Three Ursinus girls win recognition at all-college hockey tryouts Saturday • Ursinus JV\u27s play in shades of evening to down Drexel, 3-0 • Hungry civilians see fowl Thanksgiving • Students may see ballet at half pricehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1690/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, July 1, 1946

Board announces faculty revisals; new plans adopted • Baccalaureate degrees received by eighty-nine students as Ursinus observes seventy-sixth annual commencement • Prizes awarded to honor grads for scholarship, citizenship • Rev. Maurice Hohlfeld addresses conference of mission\u27s group • Dorms elect officers, senators for next term • Tau Kappa Alpha initiates five • Men elect Ross council prexy; name seven others as members • Rev. Billman, D. D., delivers address to senior class Sunday • T. Gresh, Williams take honors as valedictorian, salutatorian • P. Willauer named alumni president • Rosicrucians entertain fifty-two girls at tea • Women\u27s Club gives $400 • Graduates obtain positions through Placement Bureau • Y announces results of drives • Virginia Dulin and Erma Keyes receive medals as outstanding junior athletes • WAA presents certificates, awards to members of varsity, jayvee teams • Bears drop 2-1 game to Lancaster batsmen despite errorless ball • Marauders down softball queens • Mules are victors over Ursinus nine • Curtain Club members re-elect Jane Estabrook as president • YM-YWCA install officers, cabinethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1683/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, March 20, 1944

Hudson stresses Christian division from rest of world • YM-YWCA to welcome frosh and Navy at Holiday Inn • Lorelei scores a hit with everyone as girls catch men for dance dates • List of new students includes 13 civilians and 9 fleet sailors • Delta Tau pledges twelve new members • Freshman girls get colors at ceremony • Girls vote tomorrow for 1944 May queen • Y\u27s to present musicale with theme of holy week • Mr. D. L. Helfferich heads post-war planning group • WSGA launches drive for Red Cross here • Old man experience gives pointers to both sexes for next turn-about • Betsy Schumaker \u2746, leads Wednesday Lenten service • Ursinus debaters to meet Moravian men on Friday • Justine Richards to report on pan-American highway • German Club will have banquet at Kopper Kettle in April • Coeds down Drexel in low-scoring tilt on Ursinus court • Basketball girls win close contest with college of Chestnut Hill team • Sextette will meet Temple team Thursday • Shirley Klein paces J.V.\u27s against Chestnut Hill • Captain Halbruegge leads second team in easy win • Shreiner and Glenwood win in intramural basketballhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1727/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, June 26, 1944

Fifty-eight sailors get transfer orders to premidshipman school and colleges • Graduates hear Dr. George W. McClelland; Schonfeld, Snyder take top scholastic honors • Two new prizes given at graduation today • Alumni re-elect Johnson as head • Baccalaureate sermon explains war words • Directors announce loyalty fund boost • Phys-edders choose Peg Hudson to lead activities next year • Marion is awarded first prize in nation-wide church contest • Miss Eleanor Norris married to Clark Moore in Ambler church • Betty Bradway receives award as outstanding junior athlete • Alumni of Cub and Key meet • Rosicrucians add 21 to club membership • Girls undefeated in hockey and softball in all-round successful \u2743-\u2744 season • Ball team wins nine to close good season • Teddy leaves record as faithful phys-edder • Dr. McClure speaks at Baldwin • Salute to the phys-edders: bless \u27em • Will and testament • Thru the crystal ball • Majority of graduates accept positions in field of teachinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1738/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, March 13, 1944

Girls grab gobs for gala gathering as leap-year Lorelei looms at last • Y will entertain at spring reception • Students sell $13,744.70 in war bond drive as Eileen Smith wins second individual prize • Dr. W. Fuller explains CED work after war • Rex Gregor is awarded silver star for bravery • Chaplain tells students progress is inevitable • Senators to direct Red Cross drive here • Curtain Club to give three one-act plays • Marian Martin becomes IRC secretary-treasurer • Freshmen to receive colors in ceremony on Thursday • World Student Service Fund helps Chinese students solve problems • Delegates to be chosen for Penn State conference • Coeds to hear Mrs. Mooney • Carpenters, painters give new face to rec center • Dr. Oppenheimer speaks to pre-medical society • Lt. Norris A. Johnson \u2736, Navy radioman, writes from southwest Pacific about Air Corps duties • Frosh end sorority blues • Loyal Irish to praise St. Patrick on Friday • Improved girls\u27 team upsets Beaver after deadlocking for three periods • J.V.\u27s take Jenkintown six; Mid Halbruegge sets pace • Baseball team practices indoors under Heffernan • One-act play will be given at Women\u27s Club session • Betty Tyson reviews poetryhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1726/thumbnail.jp

1947 Ruby Yearbook

A digitized copy of the 1947 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ruby/1049/thumbnail.jp

Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have accelerated since the 1990s, accounting for a significant increase in the global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29-year record of ice sheet mass balance from 1992 to 2020 from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). We compare and combine 50 independent estimates of ice sheet mass balance derived from satellite observations of temporal changes in ice sheet flow, in ice sheet volume, and in Earth's gravity field. Between 1992 and 2020, the ice sheets contributed 21.0±1.9g€¯mm to global mean sea level, with the rate of mass loss rising from 105g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1 between 1992 and 1996 to 372g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1 between 2016 and 2020. In Greenland, the rate of mass loss is 169±9g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1 between 1992 and 2020, but there are large inter-annual variations in mass balance, with mass loss ranging from 86g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1 in 2017 to 444g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1 in 2019 due to large variability in surface mass balance. In Antarctica, ice losses continue to be dominated by mass loss from West Antarctica (82±9g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1) and, to a lesser extent, from the Antarctic Peninsula (13±5g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1). East Antarctica remains close to a state of balance, with a small gain of 3±15g€¯Gtg€¯yr-1, but is the most uncertain component of Antarctica's mass balance. The dataset is publicly available at 10.5285/77B64C55-7166-4A06-9DEF-2E400398E452 (IMBIE Team, 2021)