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. EPITOME -rj- many was absorbing a terrific air assault from what was now a clearly superior Anglo- t - American air force. People began to smile when reading the newspapers, whereas a Q year before they had almost been afraid to look at the headlines. i— I And so amid this atmosphere of general good feeling that pervaded Lehigh as it did the rest of the country that summer, a new institution, the Army Specialized Training Program, made its appearance on the South Mountain, and it was soon shown that the anxiety that had prevailed in some quarters about possible friction be- tween the civilian students and the trainees was entirely uncalled for. There was some good-natured kidding back and forth but certainly no group animosity was ever in evidence. There have been some isolated cases of bad feeling, however, such as the time the Brown and White published an editorial claiming that a good deal of cheat- ing went on in the Army classes and got a rather irate reply from a soldier who accused Lehigh men in general of being snobs who looked down on the G.I. ' s who hadn ' t had the benefit of a college education. But such incidents were isolated and the esprit de corps between soldiers and civilians was heightened by the arrival of a group of advanced Lehigh ROTC men who were sent back pending openings in OCS. This group, our boys, as everyone called them, was really the deciding factor that set up a healthy relationship between the two groups of students. Come down to the office right away, you ' ve got to help remade the paper. What ' s coo mg, another fire? J o, the President has resigned. C HAT ' S HOW the desk staff of the Brown and White got pulled away from their books and from Kinney ' s one Tuesday night after they thought the paper had been put to bed. Dr. Williams ' announcement that he would leave Le- high at the end of June, 1944, came as a complete surprise to everyone and left the majority of students speechless. Soon, however, they began the grand old game of rumors, this time with the future president as the subject, a game which is still pro- ceeding merrily at the time of this writing. Guesses range from Herbert Hoover to Joe Kinney. However, Lehigh ' s most unusual and one of its most spectacular contributions to the war effort was taking place that summer behind the locked doors of Fritz lab. The huge press that is usually employed in testing the strength of materials was now be- ing used to taper metal tubes by forcing them through dies, and other pieces of test- ing equipment were being used in the manufacture of airplane parts that would eventually be used on Douglas planes on a sub-contract from the Summerill Tubing Company of Bridgeport, Pa. The company had been swamped by demands from the Douglas plant and had called on Robert Mains, acting director of Fritz lab, for aid. Mains not only developed the original process of tapering the tubes, which saves a tremendous amount of steel, but also converted Fritz lab into a factory — a move that has been imitated since by many other testing organizations. From July 1, 1943, until February 1, 1944, when the Summerill Company was prepared to perform the taper- Research, Dr. Neville and paint brushes. Frits Laboratory, War Work in Fritz lab [26]
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THE WAR . such wrestlers as Christ, Zackey, Snyder, and Fulton were to be ranged close to such an immortal as Ben Bishop. Other doings on the sports front that spring included the replacement of Jim Gordon, director of Athletics, who got a Navy commission, by Eb Caraway, and the designing of an underwater obstacle course by Swimming Coach Dick Brown that at- tracted national attention. The school ' s collective sense of humor was given a boost by the production of the hilarious, original Mustard and Cheese revue, Bottoms Up, but was accelerated in the opposite direction by the voluntary suspension of publication of the campus humor magazine, the Bachelor, for the duration. The Bachelor had made quite a hit that year, especially the issue that parodied The New Yorker ; and present fresh- men who weren ' t in school during the publication ' s life-time who happen to get an old copy always put it down with a sincere Gee, what a neat magazine. Gee, I ' ll be glad to get that four-wee vacation. Don ' t be so happy; they ' ll probably draft you during that time. T the end f th e spring semester, ' 43, the University decreed a four-week J break in the pleasant pursuit of knowledge but provided a special session for men with draft boards so tough that they would be slapped into 1A as soon as they so much as stepped outside of South Bethlehem. Most men realized that the drive would probably continue without pause from this point and tore themselves away from school for the rest. Meanwhile doubts were beginning to form about the Army ' s coming to Lehigh at all, but when the five hundred odd students returned at the end of June they found that the trainees were moving in and learned that classes would begin for the G.I. ' s on July 12. The United States Army was moving into American colleges that summer, and it was also preparing to move in on Fortress Europe after having licked the day- lights out of the vaunted Marshal Rommel in North Africa. From the north, Ger- ASTP Classes Underwater Obstacles [25]
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