Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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

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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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