The football team enjoys its first undefeated season, including one of the most exciting games in PLC and PLU football: a last-minute 16–13 victory over the talented Gonzaga team in front of 15,000 fans.

T.O.H. Karl is appointed as the dean of men and professor of speech, and the speech-drama-debate department becomes very successful under his hand.

PLC's Propeller Club trains student pilots in case they were needed for the war. Professor A.W. Ramstad heads the group.

Seth C. Eastvold, a devout conservative, assumes the presidency, bringing an air of strict religion back to campus. The student body goes from 52% Lutheran to 66%.

His wife Enga is quite active in campus life as well.

As most men are fighting in World War II, the PLC student body is almost all female. The student body elects its first female president, Agnes Mykland, followed by Eunice Torvend in 1945.

The 1944 Saga includes a memorial page with a list of all PLC alumni killed so far in World War II

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