University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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ft! - V J riant f n a a neern a The University campus was made more conscious of the war this year by the appearance of approximately one-hun- dred Curtiss- Wright Engineering Cadettes, who were brought to the University for a ten-month training program. Housed in the Campus Guild and taking their courses in the University ' s engineering building, these girls were put through an intensive program of engineering mathematics, aircraft drawing, theory of flight, aircraft detail design, mechanics of aircraft structures and production, and other subjects of engineering. They also underwent rigid physical training, learning conditioning exercises, body mechanics, and swimming. Requirements for acceptance into the Curtiss-Wright cadette training program were that the girls be between the ages of 18 and 25, and have one and one-half years of college work to their credit. They received their room, board, and tuition free, plus $10 per week. They had a forty-hour week program, including thirty hours of regular class work, two hours of physical training, and eight hours of supervised study. Upon successfully passing the ten-month training period, they stepped into essential war jobs at Curtiss-Wright airplane production plants as full-fledged engineers. While at the University, they were under the direction of Kathryn Cook, Curtiss-Wright personnel director and educational supervisor of the cadettes. M. J. Thompson, aeronautical engineering professor, was director of the cadette school. fli fl Jl.

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ur Ae J Nurse ' s Aide, termed by the Red Cross as one of its most important volunteer services, is served in Austin by over one hundred University women. Before these girls became nurse ' s aides, they passed a physical examination, took thirty hours of a lecture course, and forty-five hours of practical training. After these preliminary steps, the trainees were capped, given their pins and certificates. The Red Cross then asked each nurse ' s aide to give one hundred and fifty hours a year to her job in exchange for her training. Up until the middle of this year, the activities of the group were confined to civilian purposes, but the army hospitals, short-staffed and in need of competent helpers, called on the Red Cross to lend a helping hand. This call was heard in Austin. Every day ten nurse ' s aides, many of whom are University students, ride out to Camp Swift in a Red Cross ambulance to spend nine hours helping to relieve the nurse shortage and improve morale at the camp. During final examinations, when University students were concentrating on studying, the nurse ' s aides of the University took a recess to study. A physician said he heard Brackenridge hospital was suffering because of the University finals . . . University nurse ' s aides usually work in three-hour shifts at all of the local hospitals on seven days a week. The hospitals served are Brackenridge, St. David ' s, and Seton. After receiving her cap and completing her initial training, a nurse ' s aide is eligible to work in any hospital. Therefore, many students who leave the University with the nurse ' s aide training can step into their local hospitals and aid the war effort by helping relieve the sick and trying to keep the healthy well. Nurse ' s Aide, a service without glory, is one way these University women show some tangible patriotism. m m VN HANSARD, RUTH ANNKTTE NKKL. J ACQUEI.Y.NN HOLLAND.