Evening star., 1943-02-14
Georgetown Plans
To Continue Basic
R0TC Training
New Army Ruling to Send
Seniors Directly to
Officer Candidate Schools

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Although advanced ROTC train
Ing is to be discontinued after the
present semester, Georgetown Uni
versity was informed last week by
the War Department that it has nc
intention of abolishing the ROTC
Basic courses for freshmen and
sophomores will be maintained
without interruption" during the
emergency.
The notice received by the Very
Rev. Lawrence c. German. S. J..
president, was intended to clarity
possible confusion with reference to
the present and future role of the
ROTC which is maintained in sew
eral hundred colleges and universi-
ties.
AL advanced course students. after
successfully completing an officer
candidate school, will be commits
stoned hereafter in the Officers' Re-
serve Corps, rather than in the
Army of the United States. George
town has approximately SIS juniors
and seniors enrolled in its advanced
infantry course.
Seniors TO Be Trained.
The new ruling means that the
seniors will be sent directly to an
officer candidate school next July as
a final step toward winning commits
sions. Formerly they received re-
serve commissions upon graduation
at the university Juniors in the ad-
vanced course will be sent first to a
replacement training center to re-
ceive further basic instruction before
they are assigned to officer candidate
schools. They, too. will leave the
university at the end of the present
term.
THE War Department has not the
slightest intention of abolishing the
ROTC but will utilize the system and
its framework to the maximum con-
sistent with the Army specialized
training program" the statement
read. The name ROTC' is to be
retained in the ASTTP, as we'll as in
the basic Reserve Officers Training
Corps.
ut is contemplated to continue
during this emergency a steady flow
of junior officers to be commissioned
in the Officers Reserve Corps" the
statement added, but no policy has
been adopted and will not be until
the results of the ASTP have been
observed"
11S Men Called Up.
In view of Selective service calls,
however, university officials are skep-
tlcal about the number of men who
will be retained during basic ROTC
training. Many of the freshmen are
not yet of draft age but soon will be,
1t was explained. Georgetown has
filled its quota Of freshmen and
sophomores enrolled in the basic
ROTC since the start of the new
semester on February /.
While the Navy and Marine Corps
Reserves have not yet been called
out, ll6 Georgetown students en-
rolled in the Army Enlisted Reserve
received calls for active service last
week. They will be sent in groups
to the Replacement Training Center
at Camp Lee, near Petersburg, Va.
between February % and February
26. OF the number involved. So
were from the college of arts and
sciences and 50 from the school of
foreign service. Seventeen were resi-
dents of the District of Columbia.
All were sophomores, juniors and
seniors.
Campus activities are being re-
sumed at the Hilltop and number
of new faces appeared among the
leaders. Richard J. Maloney of
Brooklyn, N. Y, a prominent COL
lege senior, has been elected new
president of the Yard. The treas
urer is Robert Duffey Of East
Orange, N. J. Hugh James of Mill
burn, N. j., is secretary.
0'Connor Heads Seniors.
President Of the senior class is
William E. O'Connor of Lynbrook.
N. Y, He has been q class leader
at Georgetown and is a member of
the Marine Corps Reserve. Edward
Owen Of Westbury, Long Island. ac-
tive in Georgetown war work, is
vice president of the seniors. He
is in the Army Reserve. The class
secretary is Paul B. Murray of New
York City, member of the Navy
VT group, while the treasurer is
Donald F. Person of Buffalo. N. Y.
who was manager Of baseball. The
class representative in the council
is Frank r. Krue of Detroit, Mich,
q member of the advanced ROTC.
The Georgetown Broadcasting Sys-
tenn is soliciting new members
among the 81 freshmen who en-
tered the college on February l. De-
spite the war and selective service
the freshman class now comprises
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