University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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Meal - time is a busy lime for every one! Air Students Busy Crew from Reveille to Taps Across the ram pus from ihe Wave «hip we find the army air corps ami llirir routine. Routine here mean falling out of hod at 05:15 ami answering reveille roll call liflecn minutes later. Retween 05:30 ami the first elans at 07:00. the air crew student must have his room ready for inspection, his clothe properly cared for. and breakfast eaten. These men. like people on other parts of the campus, found that living four in a room did have an advantage, for the work can he divided one man mops the floor, another cleans the mirror and lava- tory, and so on. Each man makes his own hed. army style, with one blanket placed over the hed and drawn tightly, with no wrinkles, and the two large com- fort are rolled, with one being placed at each end of the hed. Clothe and shoes must he properly placed ready for inspection. From seven through four more hours, the army air corps students are in classes, hut at eleven, they arc again ahead, for noon mess call is at eleven. After mess comes the first mail call of the day. fternoon classes begin at 12:30 and last until 16:30. Mess call comes again at 17:00. After mess, the students return again to Scerley and Raker for the last mail call of the day. Supervised study begins at 18:30 and lasts until 19:30 every night except Saturday and Sunday surely no one has a question on why these future pilots need to study after looking at their schedule. Little explanation is needed for the time from 19:30 to 21:00 that's ree time. 21:15 spells the end of a day of army routine for the air corps student and the beginning of eight hours of sleep. p « i s

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 Air creto student hit the Itooks before lights out. Home of Esquire, Vetty Pin-Ups Resounds to Call-to-Arms Something new lias been added to Baker and Seerlcy halls. W lien once Inquire and Petty girl reigned supreme a» wall deroralions, drah unattractive class schedules hang: where the hoys once got together behind closed doors for that late hull session or weekly poker game, aircrew students now retire promptly at nine-fifteen. W hen the 80th College Training Detachment chose T. C. as its -ite. we students voluntarily gave to the army the use of these dormitories as barracks making the air crew students say. “The army was never like this.’ The soldier in uniform uses the same rooms and studies at the same desk, hut as all things must certainly change during a war. so too did Baker and Seerlcy. busy staff of non-commissioncd ofliecrs maintains the office of the 80th Training Detachment in the lounge, and the officers have their “inner sanctum behind the glass doors of the solarium in Seerlcy. In tin basement, the familiar click of pool halls or the sound of pingpong paddles t i 11 resounds in the recreation room, and if you step across the hall to the door marked “kitchen, you will (ind a candy shop where air crew students can buy that in-between-meals snack. The numerous forms and papers that all go to make up the so-called army bureaucracy may he found in tin trunk room, which now also houses supplies and is a receiving room for laundry. W andering to the other end of Seerlcy basement, we lind the pressing room turned into a hospital ward even air crew students become ill occasionally, in the Commons basement, the familiar Mast “line is now an army mess line where the men of the army air corps dim in a manner to which all army men would like to become accustomed. I - 11 it

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Determined Men in Khaki Tackle URugged” Courses The sine of an angle is the let me net now — oh. ves the wide of I he triangle opposite it divided by the side adjacent no, that's not right—l ll have to look it up again. 'Phis might very well he one of the air crew students at T. C. studying the day’s trigonometry lesson. After a few solid hours of math lessons, the weary student might turn to the next day’s physics lesson or geography or well, just read the next few lines and forever withhold complaint about the grind of your own college days. “Courses designed to eliminate wash-outs that’s the explanation that the army assigns to its college training program: a much needed refresher say the air corps men. Both necessary and a refresher, the army course is “rugged.’ Physics, to give the potential pilot a knowledge of the forces that are at play in making his machine the precision instrument it is. To us of the student body, it might seem rather tough taking as much as live hours of physics a day: it’s become routine to the air crew students. Geography, to prepare the pilot for the strange laud he may have to light in: history, to fulfill the requirement — “The democratic heritage should he firmly planted in the thinking of our soldiers. Speech, physical education and medical aid are more major require- ments. Well, students, there you have it a panorama of what the Army ir Corps is doing with its future pilots here at Iowa Teachers. We of the student body may he justly proud of tin role our college and faculty are playing in making the college man of yesterday tin pilot of tomorrow. hr. I.am hen son, T. C. debate, professor, lec- tures to his neto class, the Army Air Crew students. P-«r 16