Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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BATTALION PARADE I ' .EMIS HALL MAC GREGOR HALL 27

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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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the work as outlined by the Government by close personal attention and observa- tion of the best methods for obtaining maximum advancement; and by his skillful use of the excellent laboratories at the college, made the course much more inter- esting and instructive. In the early summer the War Department Committee on Education decided to establish the Student ' s Army Training Corps with three summer camps to provide the immediate training of prospective student intsructors, who were to be chosen from the colleges and universities of the country. Lieutenant W. . Hite and President Duniway chose the following men to be sent to the Presidio, of California, from Colorado College: Franklin R. Little, A. G. Ainsworth, Chester Hart, W. A. Case, Ben Sweet, R. J. Sevitz, Harold Chase, A. Barney, and Edward Taylor of the Faculty. About two weeks later, the C. C. quota was increased and William Copeland, John Canon, Donald McMillan and Thaddeus Holt were recommended to Washington and sent to San Francisco. The keynote of the work at San Francisco was discipline. Instructions in modern methods of European warfare occupied the second month of the camp. The staff of officers included Frenchmen and Englishmen and many Americans who had returned from the front in France. Early in September, the War Department decided to commission those men who were qualified, in the S. A. T. C. Traing Corps. Seven Colorado College men won their bars. William Copeland and Albert Ainsworth were commissioned in field artillery and transferred to Camp Taylor. The others made infantry commissions, and reported to various colleges as instructors in the S. A. T. C. units. Hart was sent to Denver University; McMillian to Montana Aggies, Cannon to Syracuse, X. Y., Taylor to Colorado College. Little, Holt, Sweet, Sevitz, Chase and Case returned to Colorado College and made their chevrons there. STACK! ARMS! 28