Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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McCabe Atwood Pettigrew Gordon Whitmore I MILITARY HE Reserve Officers Training Corps in the schools and colleges has run the gamut of public opinion-a high enthusiasm just prior to America's participation in the World War, and severe antagonism in the years immediately following the great struggle. The attitude toward military training in the colleges of the country has now become more sympathetic, due to the fact that there is a clearer conception of the work done and of the purpose of the government in training college men. Probably no better example of this favorable, or at least understanding, view of the R. O. T. C. program taken by the school authorities and the general public exists than here at Stanford. The question of compulsory training which flares up periodi- cally at other colleges and state universities is absent hereg all Work at Stanford is voluntary. Yet it is significant that each year witnesses an increase in the number of men who register in the local unit. Military training was started on the Farm in the early nineties but the R. O. T. C. was not established until 1916. Then the unit was an infantry battalion of about 400 men under the late Colonel Jens Bugge. Of the 687 students who served in the Stan- ford battalion up to April 1917, 414 were in the service during the war. Because of the ideal climatic conditions and the available extensive and varied terrain, the infantry was replaced with a Field Artillery unit in 1917. The pioneer Field Artillery man at Stanford was Nlajor Leroy P. Collins, who very soon overcame most of the obstacles that are generally found in the way of such new enterprises. He and his successor, Major W. D. Geary, slowly but surely built up a lasting foundation for mutual understanding and good will with the university authorities and the people of the community. Since modern warfare is becoming more and more a battle of blueprints and test tubes it was an appropriate step when in 1925 Major Frank J. Atwood established an Ordnance Unit on the Farm. This part of R. O. T. C. work is open only to students in the School of Engineering who have completed the two year basic course. Thus, the technically trained students are placed in the branch for which they are well fitted. In the spring of 1927, the unit was made one of the departments of the School of Engineering. Lieutenant Colonel Hoover, Ordnance Reserves, Dean of the School, is one of the Stanford R. O. T. C.'s most enthusiastic supporters. 175

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A Ei I i l r if, 'l J l 1 I 1 4 Passing before ojjicers in review The reason for the popularity of the local unit will be found to lie not so much in the interesting courses in topography, gunnery, care of animals, and military law and history, not so much in the advantage of taking equitationg or even in the finan- cial remuneration receivedby advanced students but in the high character ability and likeable personality of the regular officer personnel headed by Lieutenant Colonel E. W. McCabe, Commandant of the Unit since 1927. Colonel McCabe is a graduate of the Army School at Leavenworth, Riley, and Fort Sill, has had two tours as Military Attache at Prague and Rome. During the World War he served with troops at the front and was a member of General Per- shing's headquarters staff during the late war and just prior to coming to Stanford was in command of the Madison Barracks, New York. An army officer can never claim any particular locale as his home for any extended period, as the war department familiarizes him with all sections of the country by moving him from post to post and from com- mand to command. So at the end of this aca- demic year, Major Frank Atwood, who built the local ordnance unit, will go to Washington, D. C., to take up new duties in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War. Lieutenant Charles S. Whitmore, a graduate of West Point, this year will terminate four years as Assistant Instructor in Field Artillery. In '26 and '27 he was instrumental in developing faSfU, hard riding polo teams for the Cardinals. His next post has not yet been designated. ' But the good fortune of the Stanford R. O. T. C. will continue as two other well trained and thoroughly experienced officers will fill the vacancies thus created. Captain Ittai Luke, comes from the office of the Chief of Ord- . . c he A ' up - 1 q - nance to take charge of the Ordnance U1111 ,?4'if-iii j A V . c, c 7 here. Captain Luke, before joining the army 1U A gun Camage of the alwlery unit 1917, was an instructor of physics at Stanford. 176