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Grove City College Bulletin ALUMNI ISSUE Vol. 29
APRIL. ISSUE, 1942 No. 8
NAVY PROGRAM IS IN OPERATION Coinmencement Is Scheduled For June 7 To 10
Full Quota of
Flying Course Is Popular With Students
300 Sailors To
Be Reached May I
Program For Annual Exercises Is Announced
Naval Men Take Three Months of Intensive Ra
The exercises of the Sixty-sec ond Commencement of Grove City
dio Instruction Early in February, after a brief preliminary investigation, the Col lege was authorized by the naval authorities of the Fourth Naval District to organize a school in basic radio. The purpose of the
College will be held on June sev enth to tenth. The schedule of ex ercises is as follows:
Wednesday, May 27
7:15 p. m.: Farewell Vespers, Har bison Chapel Saturday, June 6 12:45 p. m.: Limcheon in honor of
the Senior Women, Mary And erson Pew Dormitory
3:00 p. m.: Senior
Tea
Dance,
Crawford Hall
Sunday, June 7
6:15 p. m.: Supper in honor of the Senior Men, Isaac C. Ketler Dormitory
7:30 p. m.: Baccalaureate Service, Harbison Chapel
Navy Approves College For V-1 Program
10:00 a. m.; Ivy Day Exercises,
Plan Permits Certain
Terrace of Crawford Hall -12:20 p. m. : PI Gamma Ivlu LuucTieon, Mary Anderson Pew
r Stu'^ents to ReraEin bi
2:30 p. m.: Speedwell Club Recep tion,
College at Leas'. 2 Ye? Grove City College has been ap
Pounders proved by the Navy Department as Hall one of the group of colleges and 3:00 p. m.: Art Exhibition, Art universities selected as a training Studio, Crawford Hall school for its V-1 program. Prom 7:45 p. m.:Concert by the Music this program the Navy hopes to
Department, Crai^ord Hall
get officer material for the Naval Air Corps and for deck and en Tuesday, June 8 10:00 a. m.: Class Day Exercises, gineering service.
have
ford Hall
reached
their
seventeenth
1:00 p. m.: Limcheon for Trustees, birthday and are not yet twenty Mary Anderson Pew Dormi- years old. The physical qualifica tions require ability to pass the (Continued On Page Four)
examination given to all volun teers in the Navy. Those who are
Pittsburgh Alumni Meet April 17th
accepted are enlisted as Apprentice Seamen in the Naval Reserve and
placed on inactive duty whUe they
are attending college. All men The reunion of the Pittsburgh enlisted in the V-1 program will Alumni was held at Home's on the wear an insigna showing that they
One are enlisted in the United States
evening of April 17, 1942. hundred and three persons were Naval Reserve. Under this plan, enlisted men present and they showed a spirit of loyalty and enthusiasm for the will remain in college for at least two years. They will follow the College. Rodney Dean, President of the regular courses as outlined by the Association, acted as Toastmaster college but in the first two years must include courses in physics, and called on Rev. Charles Cribbs, college algebra, trigonometry and '08, Ingram, to offer the invoca special work in physical education. tion. After the meal, Mr. Dean In the spring semester of the sec presented Mr. Lonnie Fisher who ond year enlistees will be given a crowd
to meet for a reunion and gettogether for old times' sake. So
with
his
written examination prepared by
Negro songs. He then called on the Navy Department. This exam President Ketler for remarks. ination will test the capacity to President Ketler spoke of the read intelligently, of ability for work of the College, dwelling par orderly thought and for simple, ticularly on the work connected concise expression, as well as a with the war activities. Dean Cal- test of knowledge in mathematics
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meetings to be arranged and the college office will be glad sist In dinner arrangements when requested by any one in the several classes concerned.
The College and alumni offi cers sincerely hope there will be as many reunions arranged as possible. J. P. Hassler, '11 Secretary-Treasiu-er
Civilian Defense Council Starts
Campus Courses 270 Register For In struction
in
Several
Phases of Defense In line with the general move ment toward preparation for civilitn defense. President Ketler ap pointed a committe early in March to select, train, and organize cam pus personnel for defense purposes. Members of this committee were
chosen from the faculty and the Student Council, as follows: Prof. F. H. Sumrall, chairman, Mr. J. P. Hassler, Mr. R. E. Thorn, Dr. Marguerite Appleton, Mr. J. C. Loveless, Miss Esther Post, Miss Elizabeth Hood, Miss Barbara •Snow, Mr. William Miller, and
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to be sent to an advanced school.
Training Class
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I Under the present plan, 100 men
j arrive each month and after May
flOO men will leave each month,
Is Continued
j From that time on the normal enIroUment wUl be 300 enlisted men, )The program calls for 40 hours a
Twenty Students
f"•lufisisrvami"ooL'liooTdioiy
Taking" Lourse; 48 have/study, it is a strenuous program. Pascetf nrniinrf rassea urouna
^rhnnlj proving to beresults, is ocnooi a veiyhowever, effectiveitone
Work
and rapid progress is being made along the desired lines.
After numerous delays and in The Naval Training School is terruptions in the flight work due sponsored and is under the im to drastic restrictions caused by mediate direction of the Fourth the war, Grove City College com United States Naval District with pleted the third C.P.T. course dur headquarters in Philadelphia Penn ing the fall semester. Fifty students sylvania. In immediate command have now taken the course and of the Unit is Lieutenant Com
with a few exceptions, have suc cessfully completed both the flight work and the ground school. Fortyeight of the fifty have passed the
mander William F. Grogan. He is assisted by two chief petty offi
cers and has assigned to him three yeomen to assist in the administra ground school examinations as tive work. All matters of control given by the Government. Twenty ■and discipline are under the direc more students are now taking the tion of Lieutenant Grogan. The en course, with the ground school listed men who have been assigned more than half completed; a num to the School up to the present ber have already soloed in their • time have an average age of over flight work. 30 years. They are all men who While civil flying has been great have had some experience in elec ly restricted due to war regula trical work or radio. They have tions, we have been most fortunate impressed themselves on the in in being able to continue our structors of the school by their course. Mr. Wilson, the flight serious work and their substantial contractor, after constructing a achievements. They also have made modem hangar at the fljdng field, a veiy favorable impression on the is constantly improving the condi entre community. They are typi tion of the field and the equipment cal American men who are anxious of the hangar. An armed guard to serve £ind who are ambitious to is on duty at the field at all times, secure the preparation needed to and all planes taking off or arriv render a service of marked iming are required to register and are identified and examined. These
precautions are necessary to elim inate the operation of any unidenti fied planes. The spring program of the ground school has enrolled a num ber of students, not as C.A.A. students, but as college students Miss Doris Hoch. Mr. Miller and taking the course to gain a know Miss Hoch are juniors this year ledge of Meteorology and Naviga and are members of the Student tion. At present there is an urgent
derwood was then called on for a and physics. Those who rank suf speech. Dr. and Mrs. Harmon, who ficiently high in the examination Council. As a preliminary to the selec were guests of the evening, were will have the choice of two courses, greeted with applause when Mr. each leading to an officer's com tion and organisiation of personnef, Dean asked them to rise. The next mission. The two choices are the the committee has initiated a pro speaker was Mr. Keith Douglas Navy V-5 program which is Naval gram of training for the different Young, a native of Australia, Mr. Aviation or the Navy V-7 program duties connected with civilian de Young gave a very interesting which is Deck or Engineering fense work. This program began on Tuesday, April 14, with five tal on his experiences among .the Service. If V-5, Naval Aviation, is chosen, classes in First Aid, and will be Aborigines of Central Australia. He described them as the lowest he will be permitted to finish his concluded, according to present type of man. Some of their cus second year of college, after which plans, on May 12. The classes will toms certainly seem very degrad- he will be transferred to active cover the requirements of the fol(Continued On Page Four)
Civilian Pilot
heard of the plans of any class
The V-1 program is open to
Crawford Hall
10:00 a. m.: Annual Meeting of entering freshmen and to freshmen the Board of Trustees, Craw and sophomores in college who
the
es whose numerals end in 2 or 7
to furnish late addresses and as
Club Room,
entertained
This is the year for the class
far the college office has not
Monday, June 8
Dormitory
Reunion Notice
school is to give enlisted men in the Navy an intensive course of three months in length in elemen tary electrical physics, mathema tics, alternating currents, and basic radio. Those who complete the work of the school successfully are
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Beaver Valley Alumni Meet The Sixteenth Annual Reunion
and Banquet of the Beaver Valley
Alumni Association was held in the Hotel General Brodhead, Beaver Falls, on Friday, March 27. The principal speaker of the eve demand for instructors in those particular fields and there are good ning was Mr. Roy W. Wiley, '18, opportunities for those able to pass Butler Superintendent of Schools, who spoke on "Loyalty to the Col the government examinations. lege". President Weir C. Ketler Grove City College has acquired and Mr. H. O. White, Registrar, equipment for the course this year, discussed the accelerated college including a large globe for the program which has been planned to study of navigation and a fully fit into present war needs, and equipped plane which is Installed Dean A. J. Calderwood spoke on in the aeronautics laboratory. It "The College, Past and Present". is hoped to add to this equipment Mr. O. H. Heokathome, '16, Presi as time goes on. dent of the Association, gave the FOR VICTORY: BUY BONDS
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