Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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V G I ST LT. E.H. M KEE. LT. J. K.WALTER. CAPT. A. G. RUDD. LT. C. E. TAYLOR LT. BENNETT.

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Coming back to the work of this command, I consider it one of the best achievements in a short space of time that I have ever seen in my eight years of service in the regular army. The lieutenants have worked hard and done well ; the non-commissioned officers have done wonders and shown commendable zeal ; and the privates have shown esprit-de-corps and aptitude for their work that has made me very proud indeed to be your commanding officer. The result has been that in less than two months you have developed an organizations of which we can all be justly proud. Perhaps the greatest tribute I can pay you men is to say that I would have asked nothing better than to lead the Colorado College Students Army Training Corps upon the battle fields of France. In farewell, fellow soldiers, your commanding officer salutes you! These words spoken on December 6, 1918, by Captain Rudd, marked the close of the military work of Colorado College which began seven months before. In these seven months, 355 men had graduated from the radio school and had landed in France; 200 had just completed their radio work and another 200 had received two months of intense training in the collegiate section of the S. A. T. C. The military work of Colorado College began in May, 1918, when the first draft detachment of 150 men reprted to Captain V. E. Kanally. Lieutenants E. H. McKee, Infantry; A. C. Denman, Infantry; C. M. Collins, Medical Corps; C. W. Russell, Dental Corps ; George King, Quartermaster Corps, composed the THE GUARD ON THE QUAD ' 24

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staff of officers serving with Captain Kanally. Professor Roland R. Tileston was in charge of the technical instruction of this detachment. The sixty-day course included theoretical and practical ground and wireless telegraphy. Infantry in- struction occupied two hours daily. The infantry work was the minimum neces- sary for dicipline and exercise. The college used the gymnasium and locker rooms of Cossitt for barracks. The fumed oak tables of the dining room gave way to the long, bare pine tables of an army mess. The physics lecture room and the laboratories were equipped with elaborate telegraph apparatus. Sub-stations were placed in the Administra- tion building and the San Luis school. The second detachment of signal corps came on the fifteenth of July, two days after the transfer of the first company to Camp Funston. These men did work similar to that of their predecessors.. On September thirteenth, the majority were transferred to Kelly Aviation Field at San Antonio, preparatory to de- parture for France. The inspecting officers at both Camp Funston and Kelley Field highly com- mended the training and discipline of both detachments. Professor Tileston ' s efficient and intensive course of instruction achieved splendid results. The Radio school at Colorado College was known as one of the best in the United States and to Professor Tileston belong the greater part of the credit. He supplemented OUfZ V?K IN 26