Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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blanning arlls reviews ete. ssome of the bractca experence that s gven the men hrough o system of shudent ofi cers Under the supervision of the commissioned Officers, the shident officers are in imme. diate command of the men Student o cers organize the battalion take charne of lonalons cnd morcn the men to meals anc other activities Reports frion old Briown men, now comnissioned ot e who have cone rouan this training ver ty the tact that the experence ganen as s 1y dent officers s of creal value in prenaring tobeanoiicer noer he close sipervision of our officers and petty officers much has been done te give more respopsip by 1o each indvicunl student. The chonging of a0 dent officer every sermedler i1 one way oflgiving morenenachance o lean Aso there o el Lo U s commu- nications i. e. blinker and semaphore e e which the upperclass- meneaeciven hance to ol fheir cnow - edge to work There are otber aspec s of o franing horce o e oo cation of what we learn in our classrooms. that have ver s 0 NManyieotros have toen place in whien doerent Woonl baces o b b have beer . cd Snce w0 connot Be allowed fRe iLA criise dining fthe summer months, because of wortime restrctions theee visits and ore day crises oboora small ot craftarc bk nilen Becalce of be nonoar o reat many Nlaval establish- ment our Vi have shHown L almecd every branch of the Naval service, Ve hope that when we have e Brown Woconboemenbared o b g oo to the University's as well as the Navy's tadilons ol bonor encd el e it ; ,. 5 1

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1he men in the NROTC were shocked out of their very seins one February after. noon by the announcement that oll men in cemesters V Vil were to be commissioned on March , 1944 Most of that group of 95, except 30 semester V men, did leave: Brown University now boests a total of 113 Naval officers from the NROITC Most of the NROTC group that aid leave in March were only one semester short of credits for a degree: consequently, they didn graduate. A good number of the I 13 are now aboard capital ships, more on destroy. ers, ang even a greater number have duty aboard lancing craf Our third semester in the V.12 has seen the unit become bigger ana beltter. When E. A. Shields left, the duties of Battalion Commeander were given 10 R H. Mare. neck, In spite of most of the men now being, on the average, a year or so voLnger than the previols clesses the unit has 65 o whole become more efficien because of previols experience. There s molech o oy Brown oirit ond the men are proving treir worih ip scholaet e STUDENT OFFICERS OF THE NROTC achievements as well as in extra-curricular and military activities. Deanslist PhiBeta Kappa, and other scholastic honors are being proudly displayed by Navy men here. The athletic teams and campus argenizations, with a new one started by and for the Navythe Ship's Service Board, have all been flourishing with the help of the Navy, Much of the credit for making our unit what it is today must be given to our offi- cers and petty officers. Three of the old timers Chiefs Blank, Flis, and Sharpe have been with us all the way until Chief Slanalman Sharpe was trarsterred fo duty with the Fleet a few months ago. Chiefs Ellis and Blank still carry on but the staf with which they now work i a far cry from the officers and enlisted men we had in civilian days. In 1940 there were three officers and three enlisted men on the stail, We now have based at Brown twelve com. miss oned officers seventeen enlisted men including nine Chiet Petty Officers, and one secrefary. Clrganizing pla cone and companies,

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THE ARIMY A TH5REIHNS United States Army Air Force Training Detachment of the Army Pre Meterology unit assianed to Brown straggled up Col lece Hill. These uniformed students en- tered Hope College and Slater Hall flaunt. ing still their carefree mannerisms of pre- vious collede days, but were rapidly molded into military form by paternal Ser. geant Martin Fryer. The brilliant Bs ' as these advanced men were denoted, had no sooner adapted themselves to their accel erated courses, become immure tfo the mess at the Faunce House Cofeteria which they shared with the undergraduates, and tamiliarized themselves with the local ter- rain when the C ' detachment settled in Horace Mann, Beorge, end Warren houses, eader to use the avaleble facilities with their seasoned superiors, E ARLY IN MARCH of 1943 the nucleus The fulure weathermen were guickly put al ease by the first commandant Ma or Ethridge F. Doane. They readily accepted their prescribed schedule of forfyonine weekly academic hours plus ten hours of military traning leaving the detalls to the Army and the Unversity officials. Dean Samuel 1. Arnold was chief supervisor of the educational program, while Professor Gilbert E. Case coordinated matters con cerning the Universiy and the Army. Profescor Uase s task was somewhat