Chaffey College - Argus Yearbook (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)

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Learn Theory, Start Fligh Sydney S. Means (left), director of the Chaffey Silver ' Lake Flight camp, is in charge of the primary and secondary War Service Trainees who have worked in different classes. The student personnel W.T.S., formerly known as Civilian Pilot Training, was appointed by the Civil Aeronautics Authority at Santa Monica under the direction of Super- visor Harold Bromley. While the Chaffey C.P.T. training was at the camp, Miss S. Helen Brown (left) served as recruiting officer. Ships of the line numbered twenty-five in May, including Fleets, Travel Airs, Wacos, and Cubs. The May class of primary and secondary trainees started with the finest ships and the largest corps of instructor yet at the camp.

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ing Service Trainees Marching men in uniform, the stir of music by the drum corps, the flag flying in the west wind — This sight awakens the student council to the spirit of the year, prepares them for the changes which came in class and students events. Following this event, trainees left for the desert camp. The guad is a focal point in student life through which everyone passes between buildings and playing fields. Freshmen and sophomores sit on the lawns in com- panionable circles at noon or relax on Memorial watching the shadow of an air- plane flick across the sunny grass.

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(top) F. O. Felsch, head of the aero- nautics department, instructing in Airplane Engines, (center) War Training Service class on the cam- pus, (below) Parachute packing class in the O.R.T. federal training program held in 1942 at the Chaff ey airdrome. Wings in the air come only after hours of class- room instruction in en- gines and aircraft con- struction, lectures in ma- thematics and meterolo- gy, precision performance in parachute packing.