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[[image: hand drawn masthead the includes "THE OWL", and written "Vol 1 No 3  April '47"]]

THE ARMY WIFE

As the 477th Composite Group and its allied units begin their second year's tenure on Lockbourne Army Air Base, and the entire military organization seriously begins the all-important task of conversion from a war engendered emergency status to that of a quietly efficient peace time organization, the necessity arises at the station for careful, conscientious, and whole-hearted planning to formulate the exprit de corps and community life so desirable.  The success of this program will be determined to a large degree by the effort and support offered by the 
Army Wives stationed here.

The true Army wife is in every respect a remarkable person. Not only does she cheerfully offer her services in the general activities of the station, but concurrently is able to maintain a home and raise a family successfully, under
conditions and circumstances which would render such a feat impossible to her civilian counterpart.

The majority of wives here on the station have passed through the periods of uncertainty and deprivation fostered by the war years -- periods during which no sacrifice was too great to establish homes for their husband' wherever they might be stationed. Today, these wives stand on the threshold of a new life.  A life of countless possibilities.

The establishment of a firm, well rounded community life on this station will visibly affect each person on the post, the importance of which cannot be overlooked.

If each Army Wife on the station lends her whole-hearted support to such a program, the results could not possibly be other than successful.
COLONEL NELSON S. BROOKS

          KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD
Kirsten Flagstad, the great Norwegian
soprano, who has been away for the past
six years will be heard in Memorial
Hall Thursday evening, April 17, at
8:30 o'clock under the auspices of
Mast and Amend.

EASTER

Easter is the Christian spring festival commemorating the Resurrection.

To the Norsemen the festival of the divinity of spring which they called Ostara or Eastre (whence Easter) was especially the season of new birth.

From this festival arose the symbols of the Easter Egg and of the Easter Rabbit.

The foundation of drama is found in these early myths and attendant songs, the desire to express the two great emotions attributed to nature, her sorrow when the sun is withdrawn and her joy when the fruitful season of growth begins again is poetically developed in the Greek dramatic Myth of Ceres and Proserpine.

Besides being commemorative of the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, the Easter festival of modern times is a memorial of the Christian Passover from the Old Dispensation of the moral law to the New Dispensation, wrought by
the sacrifice for unity, or atonement in the innocent death of Jesus Christ upon the cross.

At first the Christian passover was celebrated on the same day as the Hebrew, the 14th day of the month Nisan (April). But the Church at Rome and other churches of the latin world soon transferred to the observance to the Sunday next after the 14th Nisan primarily to mark a difference between 
Judaism and Christianity.

In 669 Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury established the reformed
Roman Calendar in England. The
movable feasts of the Catholic, the Lutheran Angelican and Protestant
Episcopal churches were determined
by the day of the month upon which Easter Day falls.

Easter day is now determined as the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, that is the fourteenth day of the calendar moon, or the full moon which matures upon, or next after, the 21st of March. If the full moon matures upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the first Sunday following.

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Notes: This is page 1, of The OWL - Vol. 1 No. 3 April 1947. There are 2 columns of text, with several rows of different sizes.