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~ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION ci May 21, 1943.

Memorandum Concerning the V-12 Program:

The Chancellor held a meeting of the Engineering faculty
and others concerned with the V-12 program Tuesday afternoon, May 18.
Since I was the only Physical Education faculty member in town he asked
me to attend. I want to give you a few of the items which I noted at
this meeting. We will undoubtedly be given more detailed information
later, but I thought you would like to know what the V-12 set-up is.

Four hundred eighty-seven V-12 students will be enrolled
in the Engineering School the first of Julye About twenty per cent of
these boys will be freshmen, and the rest will be Engineering students
who have been in the V-1 or V=7 programs who will be transferred to the
V-12 program. These students are to be recruited from within a radius
of 300 miles. The Navy will give 20 minutes of setting up exercises to
these boys each day. In addition, we are to give one hour per day of
physical conditioning to these boys, six days per week. This period is
to be given over to calisthenics, swimming and sports.

They are also desirous of having some sort of an intra-
mural program and they state that these boys will be permitted to take
part in intercollegiate athletics. However, they will be required to
take at least 18 hours of work in the Engineering School, which will
probably not leave a great deal of time for outside activities.

None of these students are to be permitted to do any out-
side work for remuneration, Apparently their gym clothing will be issued
by the Navy. We are responsible for gymastic equipment and giving the
work, keeping the records, order, and so forth, but the Navy will take
care of all discipline. Mr. Leonard Axe is the coordinator of this
program with the University, and Commander Buhl will handle the Naval
discipline.

An item of interest is that faculty members teaching half-
time in this Naval program are to be deferred from military service.

Another item that I think will be of interest to you is that
less than half of the V-12 esandidates passed the physical examination to
get into this Navy program.

It is expected that we will have a contingent of 487 V-12
students on the campus from July first until the war is over. Each new