Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Army Enlistment Reserve Corps Committee The Army Enlistment Reserve Corps Com- mittee was appointed by President Ross in July 1942 to act as a liason agency between the mil- itary authorities and Butler University. As such it has served as a clearing house For the dis- semination of military information affecting college students. It was organized with the specific task of selecting students for the unclassified army reserve. In that capacity the committee held 39 meetings and interviewed 132 students, 104 of whom were ad- mitted to the army reserve. It also advised other students who were interested in some other branch of the military service with the result that 64 boys entered the navy and 37 joined the marines. With the discontinuance of the enlisted re- serve program in December, 1942, the com- mittee assumed other duties. At present it is concerned mainly with giving examinations for the navy V-1 2 program and army A-1 2 program, with making out the final papers for boys called into active service, and with answering the many questions asked by others seeking advice. The great amount of individual advising and clerical work was done in the registrar s office by Mr. C. R. Maxam, the chairman of the committee and by Mrs. Ruth Deming, who served as secretary. Other members of the Enlistment Reserve Corps Committee in addition to Mr. Maxam and Mrs. Deming are Dr. A. Dale Beeler and Professor Albert Mock. 13

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Physical Fitness The war has affected the physical education pro- grams at Butler as it has affected the entire uni- versity curriculum. The entrance of the navy and the army in our fieldhouse resulted in the conversion of the old Campus Club into a new gymnasium for use by both men and women s classes. Although the facilities are somewhat limited, both programs are of a nature of which the university may be proud. The women s physical education program is under the direction of Miss Louise M. Schulmeyer. Her staff is supplemented by Mrs. Turpin Davis and Mrs. Marcia Reisser. Under their capable direc- tion women students are able to obtain instruction in tennis, archery, fencing, swimming, golf, and team sports such as volleyball and basketball. During her first year at Butler Mrs. Reisser has inaugurated a new program for freshman girls based on the correction of such physical defects as posture and weight. At the beginning of the year pictures were taken of all the coeds which will be compared with the girls themselves at the end of the year. Each girl is considered individually and given special e xercises for the correction of her own personal defects. The department holds special classes for girls majoring in physical education to give them a knowledge of sports techniques. To aid them in acquiring an ability for leadership these girls are given the opportunity to instruct classes com- posed of the younger girls. Every year the depart- ment graduates a number of girls ready to assume teaching positions in the field of physical educa- tion. In an effort to better fit Butler men students for duty in the armed services the administration this year began a program of physical fitness com- pulsory for all men students. The program is under the direction of Frank Pop Hedden and Walt Floyd. In order to pass the course a student must be able to do twenty-five push-ups, seventy-five knee-bends, run the obstacle course constructed between Jordan Hall and the fieldhouse in three minutes, run the quarter mile in seventy seconds, the hundred yard dash in thirteen seconds, throw a baseball one hundred and fifty feet, put the shot thirly feet, broad jump a distance of fifteen feet, and do the burp test twenty times in three minutes. During the second semester the classes were put on a contest basis. The ten outstanding students in each group were awarded points for their achieve- ments, 1000 points for the first place winner, 900 for the second and so on. In the spring an award was presented to the man having the highest number of points in all classes and medals were also given to the second and third place winners. A medal was also presented to the man who was judged OS having the best mental attitude toward the course. With the coming of the army Hedden and Floyd assumed the direction of the athletic program for the air crew students. The training program for the army students consists primarily of team sports and calisthenics. Since the beginning of the war the American public has begun to realize the importance of such training programs as that now being offered at Butler.