University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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R.O.T.C. STAFF Colonel B. R. DeGraff, A. B. from Columbia, 1917 Captain Leslie F. Coates, B.S. from University of Conn., 1936 Captain Gabriel A. Ivan, B.S. from U. S. Military Academy, 1943 Captain Howard K. Welch, B.S. from Montana State College, 1938 M Sgt George E. Bryan 1st Sgt William E. MacFarland M Sgt Frank L. Doggett 1st Sgt Lloyd R. McVay 1st Sgt Louis H. Bergin T Sgt Roy C. Corbett 1st Sgt John A. Bradley T Sgt Asa B. Miner The Reserve Officers Training Corps can date its origin back to July 2, 1862, the date on which Abraham Lincoln signed the Land-grant Bill, commonly known as the Morrill Act. ROTC has been a part of Rhode Island State College since the school was established as the Rhode Island State College of Agriculture Mechanics Arts on May 19, 1892. Since that time the enrollment steadily increased until it reached an all-time high of 624 Basic and Advanced Course students in 1939. During the war years the Ad- vanced Course was suspended and the basic course enrollment dropped to as low as 40, due to the great number of members or eligible members being drafted into the Armed Forces. In February 1946 the Advanced Course was reactivated at Rhode Island State with an enrollment of 19 — -all veterans. 12 of these original members received commissions as 2d Lieutenants in the Officers Reserve Corps on February 1948. To take care of the expanding enrollment a sub-unit has been activated at the Prov- idence Center (Oliver Hazard Perry Junior High School) Providence, R. I., with an enrollment of 135. The anticipated enrollment for the basic course for next September is estimated as 600 with a corresponding increase in the Advanced Course. This will exceed the all-time record set in 1939. The courses, reguirements, benefits, etc., of the ROTC course are outlined on pages 151-152 of the current college catalog. 19