Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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CAPTAIN THOMAS C. THOMAS. USN. appointed Commanding Officer ol tho V12 and NROTC Unit. In October. 194S. Sgl.. USMC. Gerald J. Amole. Y2c. Georgo F. Tobin. PhM3c. THIRD ROW: Boyd L. Link. GMIc. Peter Hawrylak. Sp A)3c. John E. O'Leary. SKlc. Allen M. Ault. S2c. Marvin C. Schappell. Ylc. William J. KnaHlch. Y2c. nova College as Officer in charge of Physical Train- ing. Retained on the staff during the rapid changeover to the new organizations were Lt. Stanley J. Kufiel, USNR and Lt. Commander Carl E. Lorenz, USNR (M O both of whom assumed their duties at Villanova College in November, 1944. Captain Roger S. Tous- saint, USMC, who relieved Captain Robert L. Mor- gan in July, as head of the Marine detachment at the school, was also retained. Familiar faces to us all are those of Lt. Commander Vincent A. Miles, USNR and Lt. Newton Craig, USNR, who in Novem- ber hastened the progress of future candidates of the NROTC then in the V-12 Program by instruction courses in Naval Policy and Tactics. As the congressional legislature stands at present the trainees will remain on active duty until July, 1946. The trainees completing eight terms will be commissioned as ensigns in the United States Naval Reserve. The future disposition of the training pro- gram is very indefinite however both the administra- tion and the trainees look to the future with the usual optomistic Naval outlook. FIRST ROW. LEFT TO RIGHT: Richard C. Puoschol. CGMiAA). Ralph A. William . CBM(AA). Winliold C. Simp on. CQM(PS). Harry D. Anderson. CSK(AA). John F. Kliowlch. CSPtA). SECOND ROW: John R. Ebert. FC2c. Dougla H. Martin. Corp„ USMCR. Lewis R. Christeine. PISgt.. USMC. Vito C. Million. 1st

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NAVAL ADMINISTRATION The past year at Villanova College has seen sweeping changes in the Naval Administration of the school. In November, the much waited for NROTC program was inauguarated along with its sister officer training curricula, the V-5 Naval Avia- tion Training Program, making Villanova College rank with the leading Naval Institutions in the coun- try. Due to his hospitalization in October. Commander Edward Hannah, USNR, was relieved of his com- mand of the V-12 unit by Captain Thomas C. Tho- mas, USN. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, class of 1925, Captain Thomas was com- manding a division of high speed destroyer trans- ports before his transfer to Villanova College as commanding officer of the V-12 unit and the newly organized NROTC and V-5 training units. To assist him in the operation of the evergrowing units. Com- mander lames W. Whaley, also a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, was appointed to the post of executive officer. Due to the rapid ex- pansion and the wide spread activities of the Naval COMMANDER JAMES W. WHALEY. USN. Executive Officer of the Naval Training Unit . Training Programs, many new faces had to be in- troduced to the trainees at Villanova College. Among these were Lt. Gg) Harry Abraham, USNR and Lt. Gg) Robert Hecht, USNR, both of whom were transferred to Villanova College from destroyer duty in the Pacific to instruct courses in navigation. In November along with Lts. Gg) Abraham and Hecht, Lt. Elmer D. West, USNR and Lt. Wm. D. Groff. USNR, were added to the staff of the Naval Station for the purpose of presenting the NROTC students the large number of courses required under the Navy Program. Lt. West was an instructor in Naval Science and Tactics at Middlebury College previous to his assignment to Villanova College. Pending as- signment as an NROTC instructor at Yale University, Lt. Groff saw action in the North Africa, Sicily, and Normandy invasions, later being assigned to the staff at Ursinus College and finally as an instruc- tor at Villanova College. In December, after duty as gunnery officer on an ammunition ship the Pacific, Lt. Gg) Wm. T. Robert- son, USNR received orders assigning him to Villa- CAPTAIN ROGER S. TOUISSANT, USMC. hoad of tho Marino Trainoos. 22

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THi: FACULTY AMI THE SCHUDLS Since the founding of Villanova college in 1842, when the faculty consisted of only nine members, Villanova has maintained an enviable tradition in her system of pedagogy. It has alv ays been the aim of the administrators to secure the finest available material for her teaching staff. From the numer- ically few men of the first year, the faculty has been augmented with the addition of new schools, and the increase in the student enrollment, until at present it numbers eighty members. The Villanova spirit cannot be better emphasized than through the men on its faculty, many of whom were former Villanova students. Each instructor inserts into the minds of his students that distinct individuality which he has acquired, but the faculty taken as a whole produce the well developed stu- dent, worthy of the name Villanova Gentleman.” In order to make it possible for the student to obtain a well balanced cur- riculum, the college has endeavored to offer as wide a choice of subjects as is feasible within the students particular field of study. It is in this manner that the graduate engineer, for example, is a combination of the professor of religion, the instructor in psychology, the teacher of the sciences—just as he is a product of the various departments of engineering. Each instructor both lay and clerical is equipped with extensive training for use in his chosen field of teaching. The clerical body of the faculty with few exceptions have received their collegiate training at Villanova. Most of their graduate work is completed at Catholic University, although some of them have continued advanced studies, and received degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Gregorian College in Rome. Wurtzburg in Germany, Oxford in England, George Washington University, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rennselaer Polytechnic, and Fordham University. These are but a few of the institutions in which the clerical members of the faculty have pursued their respective studies. The lay instructors also play a prominent role in the teaching life at Villanova. Graduate work was completed in such institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, Iowa State, the University of Illinois. Notre Dame. Northwestern, University of Chicago, Cornell, George- town, Harvard, Dartmouth, Wisconsin and others. LT. H. C. ABRAHAM Naval Science and Tactics EMIL AMELOTTI Mathematics and Physics GEORGE H. AUTH Engineering REV. JOSEPH A. BARTLEY. O.3.A. Business Administration FRANCIS J. BLANCHARD Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 24