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at Bethany College and Lawrence Memorial High School, is the only one of
these four men vemeining on the staff at the present time, due to the our-
tadiment of the Army Specialized fraining Programe Jack Austin, a former
Emporia State Teachers College footbal2 star, was at the University =
on his doctorate, when we asked him t assist in this important Or .
conditioning of the Army Trainees.

The scheduling of so many classes throughout so many hours of the day .
created a problem to find accommodations for everyone, yet I believe we
worked out a program that was wihentty satisfactory to‘all groupBe Ray
Kanehl was appointed as eoordinator of ieee and schedules for the |
various service groupse All ‘Yel2 classes were scheduled +o meet in Robinson
Gymnasiua from 8:30 in the morning through 4:30 in the afternoon five days
aweek. The Ved Svninaes meet for an hour ‘enn @ half each day for their
physical training = 10:30 to 12, and -5 to 6:30 - and all of these had to
fit into the schedule without overlapping some other class. The ASTP
program calls for six heave ‘per week of physical conditioning, These
classes meet three times a week for twoehour periods, and before the
enrolinent in the unit was curtailed, these classes met in Hoch Auditorium
on both the main floor and the stage, and aise in the drill hall of the
new Military Seience Building. Physical Conditioning classes for all
civilian sieabunte (men) were held in the west stadiun.

A 650-yard obstacle course on the south slppe of Mount dread is
steel to none in this seotion of the country. This course consists of
_ Walls to climb, a “hogehouse" to d imb over, a trough to run through,
hurdles and vaults, hand-overshand beams, ropeeswing over water, balance
bonnes @& maze, & bear ae. water jumps, and ropes over Wel1se All of the
students - vee, fliers, Army and Navy trainees, use the obstacle

course regularly. It comes closer to conditioning men for war skills and