Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club's advisors--Lt. N. M. Tollefson of the Navy ROTC, and Capt. O'Connor of the Air Force ROTC unit--run a weekly ground school where members can study weather, navigation, care of aircraft, and civil flight regulations...
Oakland's first students (60% in the top quarter of their high school classes) may find the experience a bit prickly. All must live off campus; no dormitories have yet been built. The school will have no fraternities, sororities, ROTC or remedial courses. The only athletics will be voluntary...
...Ground, Ind. (pop. 640), so named because it was there, in 1811, that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan, Tinian...
...noon in the Sever Quadrangle, 119 seniors in the ROTC programs will receive commission into the Armed Forces. The Navy will commission 41 members of the Clases of 1959 as ensigns; the army 51 as second lieutenants; the Air Force 12; and the Marine Corps...
Closing a varied career, Col. Armstrong will add to his teaching experience when he goes to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., starting next fall. There he will head the junior ROTC program and teach American history. He has also taught Social Sciences at West Point and war planning at the Army War College...