University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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PAGE 20 ADMINISTRATION The University and the War PRESIDMT This momentous war year has brought to the Uni- versity of Cincinnati— as to all the notion— changes unprecedented in scope and magnitude. Our Uni- versity has become a U. S. Army camp,— at the same time continuing most regular courses. The first period of this academic year opened in the autumn of 1942 and extended to the spring of 1943. Students returning to the Burnet Woods campus last September found the usual beauty of broad lawns, spreading trees and noble buildings. But instead of the academic calm of peacetime, they joined faculty A and staff in laboratories and classrooms in a tense and determined tempo. Loyally they responded to the summons issued by the President: the University en- listed for the duration! In substantially every college of the University ac- celerated courses were given. The College of Law and the College of Medicine graduated their 1943 classes on February 1 and February 24 respectively, and the College of Engineering and Commerce on April 9. The commencement program of other units is scheduled for June 4. V I am proud of the manner in which our students worked, undaunted by the uncertainties and con- fusion of changing governmental announcements as to their military status. Along with their academic programs, many of our men students took part in the military training of the R.O.T.C. or joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army, Navy and Marines. The women students did their share with fine patriotism in activities in- cluding the Cadet Corps and Red Cross classes. To each of the students called to the armed forces during the academic year, the President issued a certificate in recognition of the patriotic service he is rendering in this great war, and with pride in his loyalty to the nation as a son of this University. As spring followed this war winter of 1942-43, the transformation of the University into an Army estab- lishment—officially selected by the War Department for varied training programs— became a literal fact. Like the first robins came the Army Air Force con- tingent, traveling from a Florida center to Cincinnati and taking occupancy March 3 of the Men ' s Memorial Dormitory. These 500 clear-eyed, stalwart flyer-candidates took to the University and the Uni- versity took to them. Not omitting the co-eds! Week- end dances and varied programs have lightened the daily grind of classroom, drill and flying field. Academic instruction of the Army Air Force men is being given chiefly by faculty members of the Col- lege of Liberal Arts. They ore likewise to teach the Army quota of pre-medical students assigned to this University by the War Department. Crowded, as in peacetime, is the wartime schedule of the faculty of the College of Engineering and Commerce. Along the hedge-adorned walks of the Herman Schneider Quadrangle and into the great brick buildings of this famous cooperative college there march these days squads of erect uniformed young men. They are soldiers from all parts of the country, selected by special aptitude and achieve- ment tests at Army centers as capable of engineering training in this and other technological institutions. They swing into the classrooms and laboratories of Baldwin, Swift and other Quadrangle buildings for instruction in civil engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, and some ore taking subjects preliminary to engi- neering. In addition to Air Force, pre-medical and engineer- ing soldiers on the Burnet Woods campus, there are to be 300 medical students at the College of Medi- cine. The following administrative and faculty members, appointed by the President, have had charge of plans and arrangements as the University Committee on War Training Programs: Dean L. A. Pechstein, chairman; Vice-President Daniel Laurence; Dean Norman P. Auburn; Professor Louis Brand and Pro- fessor M. J. Hubert. Serving with this committee have been Dean George B. Barbour, Dean Robert C. Gowdy, Dean Stanley Dorst, Comptroller Ralph W. Miller and Superintendent William B. Schoelwer. Impossible to list here are the war-time research projects of the faculty,— work of very great value to the Army, Navy, Air Forces and industry. A con- siderable number of the faculty ore absent on leave for service in the armed forces and in governmental work. An Army Hospital unit has been staffed by the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health, for service abroad. In all these activities the University takes pride. J l « f A VNj tOOO- ' veJ i