Kia'OKT OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Tt) the Stato Board of Afiriciilluiv: 



Early in July, 1918, a request was reeeived Iroui the Coiiniiittee on 

 Education and iSpccial Training of the War Department saying that owing 

 1() the proposed establishment of a Student Army Training Corps in all 

 Ihe colleges throughout the land and the consequent demand for men of 

 experience to act as Military instructors, members of our faculty who 

 would volunteer should attend an Officer's Training School at Fort 

 Sheridan. 111., lasting for six weeks beginning July 10th. Dr. M. M. 

 McCool and Professors George Gauthier, M. M. Cory and C. M. Gade 

 volunteered for this duty and were in attendance at the school for the six 

 weeks' course. 



The entire plant of the college being made available for the training 

 of auto mechanics and auto truck drivers — enlisted men — necessitated 

 the erection of barracks for the accomodation of the increased numbers 

 which the establishment of the S. A. T. C. brought about. The site 

 selected was immediately on the east of the Horticultural building where 

 connection with the steam system and sewerage could easily be obtained. 

 Eight barracks and two mess halls accommodating fourteen hundred 

 men were erected and completed just before the first of October when 

 the College opened under the S. A. T. C. plan. Into these barracks were 

 brought the men of Class B, those who I'emained under instruction for 

 but two months and were trained in the techincal branches of auto 

 mechanics. These were housed in the barracks and fed in the mess halls. 



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