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at Bethany College and Lawrence Memorial High School, is the only one of
these four men remaining on the staff at the present time, due to the cur-
tailment of the Army Ssecialized Training Program. Jack Austin, a former
Emporia State Teachers College football star, was at the University working
on his doctorate, when we asked him t assist in this important physical
conditioning of the Army Trainees. }

The scheduling of so many classes aingnbiel’ so many hours of the day
created a problem to find accommodations for everyone, yet I believe we
worked out a program that was mutually satisfactory to all groupse Ray
Kanehl was appointed as coordinator of programs and schedules: for the
various service groupse All Y+12 classes were scheduled to meet in Robinson
we from 8:30 in the morning through 4:30 in the afternoon five days
‘aweek, The V-5 trainees meet for an hour and a 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 hours per week of physical conditioning, These
classes meet three times a week for two-hour periods, and before the
enrollment in the unit was curtailed, these classes met in Hoch Auditorium
on both the main floor and the stage, and also in the drill hall of the
new Military Science Building. Physical Conditioning classes for all
civilian students (men) were held in hie werk stadium, |

A 650-yard obstacle course on the south slppe of Mount Oread is
second to none in this section of the country. This course consists of
walls to climb, a "hog-house" to d imb over, a trough to run through,
hurdles and vaults, ianicoverskead beams, rope=swing over water, balance

beams, a maze, a bear pit, water jumps, and ropes over walls. All of the

students - civilians, fliers, Army and Navy trainees, use the obstacle

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