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Maine Alumnus, Volume 27, Number 3, December 1945 The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 12-1945 Maine Alumnus, Volume 27, Number 3, December 1945 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 27, Number 3, December 1945" (1945). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 109. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/109 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. - .-4V • * « V Jt'-m • Two and a half years of Army Specialized Training ended December 1, 1945 Vol. 27, No. 3 DECEMBER, 1945 A message to the boys and girls of Maine It only looks As far back as memory goes, the grass for many years, urged graduates of over the fence has appeared greener to Maine schools and colleges to stay in young people. But sometimes it seems Maine. Each year we have launched a terrible waste of pleasant pastures two score or more young men on a when a high percentage of the youth career in electricity, and will continue of a given community falls for the de­ to do so. We know of many State of lusion and wanders abroad. Maine industries where equal oppor­ So strong is our love of our State, so tunities are regularly made for young great our expectations for its future men and women who are ready to go as a place to work and live, that we into business. can’t resist exploding the old “green Let it never be said that “the grass grass over the fence” myth. over the fence is greener”. We of CMP Central Maine Power Company has. know better. It only looks greener. CENTR AINE P O W E M PANY Vol. 27 DECEMBER, 1945 No. 3 Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, Room 514, 6 State S t. B a n g o r , o r T h e Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Subscription price, $2.00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3 00 Member: American Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Bangor, Maine, under act of March 3 1870 N Saturday morning, December 1, O immediately following the breakfast mess call, 192 members of the Army Spe­ Taps. for the A.S.T. cialized Training Program at the Univer­ sity packed their barrack bags, loaded themselves and their baggage into trucks, Although the duration and size of the and bade farewell to the Maine campus. AST program far exceeded the SATC, The brief, routine ceremony of their de­ the impact on the regular life of the Uni­ parture brought to a final end the ex­ versity has been far different. Organized istence of ASTP Unit #1145 which dur­ primarily as an educational program with ing two and a half years had brought the men screened and chosen as qualified more than 1700 men in Army uniform to college material, the AST has been char­ Orono for instruction. Ended, too, was* acterized generally by an attitude of re­ an interesting and significant chapter in spect for the academic life of the campus University history, the contribution of the and for University policies and property. University of Maine to the war effort of Discipline has been maintained efficiently the nation. by good leadership. The men have, History of a Unit almost without exception, proven to be good citizens of the college community. First ASTP trainees to arrive at Oro­ The housing of the unit in dormitories no, wide-eyed with surprise to find evi- and, when the numbers made it necessary, dences of civilization so deep in the Maine in fraternity houses, has been under the wilderness, came in June, 1943, 386 in complete Jurisdiction of the University number; the numbers gradually increased business office which has maintained con­ to a maximum figure of over 1,000 in late tracts with all fraternity houses with 1943. Then the decision of G.H.Q. to agreement to have them returned to the throw the entire weight of America’s fraternity organization after use by the military might against the forces of Ger­ University in the condition in which they many in the Normandy invasion brought were originally received. Thus the bur­ an extensive curtailment in the ASTP as den of any necessary reconstruction or more than 140,000 men, training in col­ repair is assumed by the University al­ leges and universities throughout the na­ FAREWELL: Final bugle call for the men of AST Unit 1145 on though in actual practice the occupancy tion, including most of those at Maine, Saturday, Dec. 1, closed a chapter by the Army has brought the need of were recalled for active duty. Subse­ of University history. only ordinary repair and upkeep. quently many of the men who had been at Orono helped to win the fight for the the campus paper, the Masque, M.C.A., War Service beaches and hedgerows of Normandy and and various clubs, and took part in all so­ the Battle of France. The Army desper­ cial activities. While without doubt the instruction of ately needed at that time all men with men in the ASTP and ASTRP programs special intelligence and special training The daily routine of the Army men at the University was the largest and for the immediate and imperative task of from reveille to taps was organized along perhaps the most significant war contribu­ invasion. military lines under the administration of tion made by the University during the Meanwhile a second type of Army officers and non-coms assigned by the years of conflict, it is appropriate to recall training had been instituted, that of the War Department. First commander of on the occasion of the termination of this ASTRP for 17-year-old high school the Maine unit was Col. Benjamin Staf­ last war activity some of the other ser­ graduates sent to the campus for a term ford, now retired from the Army, who vices performed. As befits an educational or two of college and military training headed the program from March, 1943, institution, many of those services were before assignment to Army basic training to February, 1944. He was followed by in the form of educational training. Spe­ at the age of 18. Of these high school his executive officer, MaJor Herbert In­ cial work in machine shop, welding, draft­ graduates some 500 have been given graham, CAC, until October, 1944, when ing, inspection, and radio in engineering, training at the University, the largest Lt. Col. N. William Alexander, Infantry, agricultural work, and phases of manage­ number at any one time being 275. became commanding officer to serve to ment helped to prepare hundreds of civili­ The AST Program was instituted as the present time. He had previously ans for needed specialized jobs. Research the result of the Army’s recognition of a headed the work at University of Ver­ by faculty members in technical and agri­ serious shortage of technically trained mont and Clark University, Worcester, cultural lines contributed to the nation’s men in such specialized fields as engineer­ Mass. knowledge. Farm labor service helped ing, medicine, and psychology. At Maine to sow and gather necessary farm prod­ the advanced students took courses in Successful Program uce. Regular civilian courses of the civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering, University graduated students desperately others were in the prescribed course in That the ASTP has been a successful required in technology, agriculture, busi­ basic engineering. All went through a program seems to be the general opinion ness, medicine, and nursing. Meanwhile program of military and physical training. of most persons associated with it. Cer­ more than 3,000 former students and The program included 24 hours a week of tainly from the point of view of the Uni­ graduates and nearly 50 members of the classroom and laboratory work, 20 hours versity it has been not only an opportunity faculty and administration performed di­ of study. As part of the physical train­ to render a valuable service to the nation rect service in the armed forces. The ing program the groups organized intra­ at war but also the means of keeping record of Maine in World War II is truly mural teams in various sports and com­ facilities and educational programs oper­ one of which alumni are Justly proud. peted with each other, although they were ating at nearly maximum capacity in The departure of the last men of Unit not permitted by Army regulations to spite of the dislocations of war. Many #1145, ASTP, brought to a close a chap­ participate in collegiate athletics. The alumni may inevitably seek comparison ter of University history. The war days trainees took an active part in many cam­ with the 1918 program of SATC. In were officially ended; the days of peace pus activities. They were identified with actuality there has been little comparison. lay ahead. THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 DECEMBER, 1945 Wieman Appointment Announced With the FACULTY A graduate of the University of Michi­ A new department in the Maine Agri­ The appointment of Elton E. Wieman, gan in 1921, he was active as an under­ cultural Experiment Station, that of poul­ chief of the physical training section of graduate in athletics, playing on the var­ try research, will be headed by Prof.
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