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Advisory Committee
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The Advisory Committee of the Army Specialized
Training Division will confer quarterly with officers of
the A.S.T.D. at Washington. »

The committee, comprised of presidents of ten
colleges and universities, conferred atthe Pentagon, Wash-
ington, on July 20, at an all-day session. This was the
committee’s second conference since the inception of the
Army Specialized Training Program.

Brigadier General Joe N. Dalton, Director of Per-
- sonnel, Army Service Forces, in a discussion of the Pro-
gram at the conference, said in part:

‘‘The experience of the last few months has con-
firmed the soundness of the underlying principles. First
among these was the conviction that the program is es-
sentially designed to supply the needs of the Army for
trained technicians. :

_ “Second is the principle that men could be selected
from the enlisted personnel of the Army for training under
the program. Third, that the colleges and universities of
the country would find the program acceptable and give it
their vigorous support.’’ :

Members of the Advisory Committee are: Dr. Isaiah
Bowman, President, Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Robert
E. Doherty, President, Carnegie Institute of Technology;
Dr, Clarence A. Dykstra, President, University of Wis-
consin; Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, Secretary, American His-
torical Association; The Very Reverend Robert I. Gannon,
President, Fordham University; Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel,
President, Pennsylvania State College; Dr. Felix Morley,
President, Haverford College; Dr. John J. Tigert, Presi-
dent, University of Florida; Dr. Karl T. Compton, Presi-
dent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, Chancellor, Stanford University.

Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, Commanding
General, Army Service Forces, visited the meeting,
speaking briefly. : | as

Colonel Herman Beukema, Director of the Army
Specialized Training Division, explained in detail the plan
under which members of the Army who hold letters of
appointment to the U.S. Military Academy are permitted
to receive special preparatorytraining in courses organ-
ized by the A.S.T.D. Coloriel Beukema also reported on
other aspects of the A.S.T.P. "

 

 

 

 

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ASTP Graduates
To Get Certificates

Sanit Specialized ™ Pro Stam

The ARMY of the UNITED STATES hereby certifies that
has completed satisfactorily the course of study in

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Fits training was completed on . Lhe record
of his performance 1s available, on request by appropriate

authority, for the purpose of determining his academic credit.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

CERTIFYING INSTITUTION COMMANDANT

A certificate will be awarded to every soldier who
successfully completes his prescribed work in the Army
Specialized Training Program,

In the opinion of the Advisory Committee of the Army
Specialized Training Division, all curricula of the A.S.T.P.
are at the college undergraduate and graduate level. It is
anticipated accordingly that appropriate college credits |
will be granted, enabling the soldier-trainee to complete
his work for a degree when, and if, he returns to college
as a Civilianafter the termination of his military service.

The certificate will serve as evidence that the sol-
dier completed satisfactorily one or more terms of study
at the college or university towhich he was assigned. On
the reverse side of the certificate will be stated the
curriculum number and the terms completed, It is im-
portant that the exact curriculum number and the number
of terms successfully completed be specified in these
Spaces. Great care must be exercised in the execution
of instructions which have been issued to the field,