Evening star., 1943-01-15
Postwar Jobs Await
Officer Instructors at
Ordnance School
Army Teaching Methods
At Aberdeen Open
E yes Of Educators
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
Star Stan CORRESPONDENT.

BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.,
Star Stan Correspondent.
ABERDEEN, Md, Jan. 15.-Many
young officers Of the Army Ordnance
School serving as instructors to hun
dreds of men here at Aberdeen Prov
ing Ground will have little difficulty
finding postwar jobs, if certain
educators who have just completed
a study of Army teaching methods
at this post have their way.
Presidents and deans of % colleges
of the Nation frankly admitted to
Army officials that they had been
given a liberal education during
their three-day stay here The edu-
Gators asked to visit the post with
a view to learning the accelerated
teaching methods they may have to
apply at their schools in the future.
The dean of large Midwestern
college, following short lecture on
aviation ordnance given the group
by lieutenant in his 20s, ap-
preached the officer with the COM
ment: There's a teaching job for
you after the war. Here is my card
Praises Army Instructors.
Replied the lieutenant: Thank
you, sir. But we have war to win
right now"
High praise of Army instructors
and their teaching technique came
from President Karl T. Compton
of Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, one of the leading educators
of the country. DR.. Compton was
member of the Baruch committee
that made an exhaustive report to
the President on rubber.
There is no group on the post
that has learned as much in three
days as we have" he told high rank
ing post officers at seminar yes
terday. He was named by the edu-
Gators to act as spokesman.
The following men participated
in the tour: Dean j. E Hannum,
Alabama Polytechnic; Dean G. P.
Stocker, University of Arkansas;
Dean S. B. Earle, Clemson Agri-
cultural College: DR.. N. A. Christen-
sen. Colorado State College; Dean
S. c. Hollister, Cornell; Dean R. l..
Spencer, University of Delaware;
Dean Joseph We'll, University of
Florida; Vice President L. E. Grin
ter, Illinois Institute of Technology;
Dean M. L. Enger, University of
Illinois; Dean A. c. Callen, Lehigh
University; Dean Paul Cloke, Uni
versity of Maine; 1t Col. C. E. Nc
| Quigg, dean at Ohio State; Dean
w. H. Carson, University of Okla
homa; Dean E. A. Holbrook, Uni
versity of Pittsburgh; Dean S. B.
Morris, Stanford University; Dean
E. B. Norris, v. P. l.; Dean r. D.
Goodrich, Dean H. P. Hammond,
Penn State; Dean H. B. Dirks,
Michigan State, and Prof. H. E.
Walter, Newark College of Engi-
neering.
IL Per Cent Are College Men.
Here are some of the salient
points bearing on the Officer Candi-
date School which is headed by a
young West Point officer, 1t. Col
Edgar H. Kibler, jr.:
More than $50 candidates enter
the school each week for a 13-week
course which formerly required
more than year.
More than 80 per cent of the in
structors teaching more than 5000
students are young men who have
only recently graduated themselves
from the OCS.
Between IL and IS per cent of
candidates have college degrees,
while only 3.3 per cent hold engi-
neering degrees or majors in some
science. The majority-about sc
per cent-has> only a high school
education. Despite this, "washouts
during the 13 weeks average but %
per cent.
Men who have gone no further
than grammar school can be seen
studying in the same classroom with
men who have finished at the best
technical colleges. But they are
all on the same footing when they
come to Aberdeen. Each man has
good chance Of coming through
and making a top-notch ordnance
officer.
Washingtonian an Example.
Harold j. Guise, 29-year- -old for
mer Washingtonian, is good ex-
ample. He attended District high
school but in 1882 enlisted in the
Army for a three-year hitch. Then
he was a salesman for local
bottling concern, until he re-enlisted
February %, 1941. This time he
reached the rank Of sergeant and
was serving in the Medical Corps in
Louisiana when he received ap-
pointment to the Ordnance School
here.
When man enters OCS he loses
his rank designation but retains the
pay of that rank. You call an Of
ficer candidate mister" until the
day he receives his single gold bar
After that time, make no mistake,
he is a lieutenant of Army ordnance
And the way they are training them
here to lead men charged with
maintaining everything that Shoots,
is shot or rolls" in the Army, will be