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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
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Brief History
Navy's. Aviation Training System
W iff Toughen future M Pilots
They're Here And We Welcome Them
First Naval Cadets Arrive Today
The student body of the University of North
Carolina today welcomes the first group of naval
cadets for the pre-flight training center.
Tnere will be no time for ostentatious cere
mony or demonstration. There is not time now
for anything except winning this war. Our wel
come will'have to be expressed here, proven in
the months to come.
We welcome the cadets because we know that
ahead of them lie the most rigorous training pro
gram and risking their lives in the service. We
welcome them because they are to defend us, our
University, our way of life against the world
hungry axis. We welcome them because they
were once college students themselves, now be
come Carolina men for the brief three months in
which this University is privileged to serve them
and the nation.
It was less than two years ago that far-sighted
President Frank, Graham, while the rest of
the nation and many of its universities were
muddying the country's thinking by talk of iso
lationism, pledged the full facilities of this Uni
versity to the defense effort. Even before Pearl
Harbor, Carolina was making good its promise
with the new airport and CAA program, with
compulsory physical education, with the Naval
ROTC 'unit, with research in. her laboratories,
with President Graham performing miracles in
labor arbitration.
v But December 7 showed the University that it
was not doing enough.
Quickly followed more changes modified and
accelerated " curriculum, Carolina's Volunteer
Training 'Corps, the Office of Student Civilian
Defense. Then the latest and greatest contribu
tion of all receiving the commission for the
eastern pre-flight training unit.
Actually we are both receiving and giving.
Receiving the responsibility for helping to train
the men who will pilot the planes against Japan
and Germany, who are devoting themselves to a
cause bigger than us all. Giving the use of the
University's-facilities that are required for turn
ing out the physically perfect pilots that ulti
mate victory requires.
We welcome the cadets most of all because es
sentially they represent the beginning of a new
University that will fulfill the highest obliga
tion that any university could have in time of
war that of sacrificing every facility and re
source and skill that it possesses to the all-important
cause of victory.
We hope sincerely that the cadets will consider
themselves a part of Carolina. Their stay will be
short, but long enough for them to sense the
University's constant effort to serving them and
their cause and long enough continually to stimu
late the student body to intense preparation for
its own part in the struggle.
if happens here .
10:30 CVTC holds final parade on
Emerson field.
10:30 Persons interested in work
ing on Carolina meet in Country Club
room of YMCA.
10:30 Those expecting to receive a
degree meet in Memorial hall.
2:00 Yackety Yacks distributed in
email lounge of Graham Memorial.
3:00 Jr.-Sr. softball played on Coed
field.
4:00 New Graham Memorial
Board of Directors meet in Grail
room.
"7:00 Dean F. Bradshaw holds con
vocation in Memorial hall.
7:00 Personnel advisers address
undergraduates in Gerrard hall.
7:30 Sophomore finance committee
meets in 111 Murphey. ' j
7:30 Frat house managers meet
in Grail room of Memorial hall.
. 7:30 Town boys meet in 103 Bing
ham.
7:30 Playmakers present three
one-act plays in Playmaker Theater.
8:00 Spanish club holds fiesta in
Graham Memorial.
PERSONALITIES . . .
Lt. John Y. Squires graduated from
Springfield where he served as fresh'
man swimming coach from 1935-37.
Recently he coached swimming and soc
cer at the University of Connecticut.
Lt. Joseph M. Hewlett was the In
tercollegiate champion all-round ath
lete in 1938 and attended Temple Uni
versity.
Lt. F. L. Gillespie is a construction
engineer from M. I. T. and for several
"years was well up in the National In
mm m
tercoiiegiate championship race .m
squash and tennis. He was the head
tennis coach at Amherst College for
seven years.
Lt. Glenn Killinger graduated from
West Chester Teachers College and was
a big league baseball player with the
New York Yankees. He played profes
sional football with the New York
Giants and was a former members of
Walter Camp's All-American football
team.
COMMISSIONING
(Continued from first page)
House introduced the chairman of the
day, the Honorable Josephus Daniels.
Governor Melville Broughton extended
the greetings of the state to the Navy
and University President Frank Gra
ham welcomed the unit to the campus.
Lt. Commander Thomas J. Hamilton
accepted the school for the navy. Cap
tain W. S. Popham ordered the colors
to be hoisted and, as the band played
the national anthem, Commander O.
O. Kessing read his orders and took
command. He ordered the watch set by
Lt. John P. Graff and then the bos'n
played pipe down.
SCHOLARSHIP
(Continued from first page)
outside donations.
Deposit boxes will be left at the
YMCA, Lenoir Dining Hall and the
Library until further notice. Town
students are asked to give now in
stead of waiting for a representative
to collect.
A list of the University Club mem
bers who have covered the entire cam
pus will be published tomorrow with
the results of their efforts.
NAVY ARRIVES
(Continued from first page)
manders Harvey Harmon and Jim
Crowley give the go-ahead sign.
This program is designed to turn
out 1900 cadets from here every three
months. The Pre-Flight Aviation
training will be followed by advanced
flying work at one of 20 schools
throughout the country.
NEWS BRIEFS
(Continued from first page)
German drive through to the rear of
Marshal Timeon Timoshenko's forces
has failed and Red forces seiz
ing the initiative have seized a river
town and killed 2,100 Germans in a
sudden sortie 37 miles to the east.
HAMILTON
(Continued from first page)
subject.
All classes will be held in Caldwell
hall which has been remodeled to allow
classrooms large enough to accomodate
one platoon of cadets at a time, and to
house the departmental offices. -
Lt. H. D. Crockford, Lt. Wilmot T.
Debell, and several members of the
Carolina faculty who have been as
signed through the Civil Service Com
mission, will teach the mathematics
and physics courses. Among this group
of Carolina instructors are Vinton A.
Hoyle, Edward A. Cameron, Nathan
Jacobson, Charles L. Carroll, John O
Reynolds. Kalph iJoas, Jr., ana
James G. Wall.
The teachers of nomenclature and
recognition who were selected from the
aviation reserve officers attached to the
Pre-Flight school include Lt. R. H
Robinson, Lt. W. P. Patterson, Lt. W
B. Davis, Lt. V. C. Tompkins, Lt. E. W
Goodman, Lt. R. V. Brawley, Lt. G. N
Daniels, Lt. J. C. Reid, Lt. J. Stocker,
Lt. Richard King, Lt. Theodore Tieken
and Lt. A. J. Smyth. The staff will be
headed by Lt. J. F. Gilday.
Lt. Norman Loader will head the
staff teaching the essentials of Nava
Service. He will be assisted by Ensign
Alan Vrooman and temporarily by sev
eral others. '
PERFECT MEN
( Continued from first page)
nition. There is also a course cover
ing essentials of Naval service, which
will indoctrinate cadets with traditions
of the service and American Naval and
military history.
In all the Navy's vast and rigid aims,
practicality and recognition of the in
dividual is recognized. "The cadets
are volunteers in a volunteer service.
While discipline will be rigid and work
hard, there will be no unenforcible
regulations. Cadets will be carefully
supervised by young officers of their
own calibre, and it will only be one
who is incorrigible who will not enter
into the spirit of the school to the maxi
mum of his ability."
By Ensign William Sullivan
. It was the first week in December
when Captain Arthur W. Radford re
ported in Washington to take over a
new position as head of the Aviation
Training Division of the Navy's Bu
reau of Aeronautics. A few days later
came Pearl Harbor.
In the mad maelstrom that was
Washington during those first few
days of the war, officials of the Bu
reau of Navigation and the Bureau of
Aeronautics worked tirelessly and
endlessly to carry out their multifold
assignments in launching a vigorous
answer in reply to the little yellow
men who poured their rotten rain of
hate on the unsuspecting residents of
Pearl Harbor and its environs.
No officer turned more readily to the
task than Capt. Radford. As he work
ed days without end to make the
Navy's Aviation Training system sec
ond to none, he constantly thought of
a vigorous athletic program, one de
signed to make the Navy flyers the
most perfectly conditioned in the
world. He had been at Trinidad, and
at Seattle, and he had seen that those
who did not exercise could not do their
job as well as the flyers who kept in
to condition at all times. While at
these air bases, he felt that if the day
should come when he might have an
opportunity to lay down the rules and
regulations, that he would advocate
the establishment of a physical train
ing course designed to make men
out of boys, to build flyers who would
be in superb physical condition but
more than that, to develop in the em
bryo pilots that all important ingre
dient the will to win. Without this
characteristic a flyer can be of little
value when the going gets rough. He
may be the best pilot in the world,
and he may be flying the finest plane,
but if he veers away from the fight,
instead of into it, he will be of little
value to the cause.
It was natural that Captain Rad
ford should turn to his fellow of
ficers when preparing to make a
momentous decision. Upon the wis
dom of the choice might depend the
success or. failure of the entire pro
gram. On all sides there was one
man recommended above all others.
He was the man whom Capt. Rad
ford wanted himself. He is Lt.
Commander Thomas J. Hamilton,
' USN.
Lt. Commander Hamilton was
Operations Officer at the Navy Air
Station at Anacostia. Prior to that he
had compiled a record which indi
cated beyond the shadow of any doubt
that he was the man for the task at
hand. At the Naval Academy he had
been a three sports star, Captain of
basketball, and one of the greatest
football players of the modern era.
Withal he was an excellent student
and the most popular man on cam
pus. He was elected permanent class
President of his class at the Naval
Academy. It was he who kicked the
ball through the uprights in the clos
ing minutes of play in that epic strug
gle to give his Navy team a 21-21 tie
with the Army. More than 106,000
fans saw the game that day (the
largest crowd that has ever witnessed
a football game in America) and all
of them came away talking about the
exploits of young Tom Hamilton. Yet,
it was not a fan but one of the offi
cials, Sports Writer Walter Eckersall
(member of Walter Camp's All
America team, since deceased) who
predicted that if we were ever in
another war that the Secretary of the
Navy might well call upon Tom Ham
ilton, for, the late Mr. Eckersall
wrote, "I do not know how far off
another war may be, or if there will
be one, but should it come to pass that
we must again fight for our rights,
I nominate Tom Hamilton, whatever
his status may be in the Navy when
war darkens our scene, to hold an im
portant post. He will be sure to come
through when the blue chips are piled
highly."
Now, that prophecy, made 16 years
ago, has come to pass. Lit. com
mander Thomas J. Hamilton has been
assigned one of the most important
positions in the war effort. Between
that great day, 16 years ago, and the
present, Tom Hamilton's life has been
one which has qualified him thorough
ly to hold the position which he has
today. He has been an outstanding
aviator, a great coach, a fighter from
the word "go," but, withal, a perfect
gentleman. He returned to the Naval
Academy in 1934 to coach the foot
ball teams representing his alma
mater. In his first year as Head
Coach, his squad won eight games and
ost only one. His team was selected
the third best in the entire nation,.
this despite the fact that he was tne
youngest Head Coach of a major team
in the country.
In every endeavor which he has
undertaken, Lt. Commander Hamil
ton has typified the kind of an of
ficer that John Paul Jones described
as the ideal to be sought by all
Navy men. He has been, and is "a
gentleman of liberal education, re
fined manners, punctilious courtesy,
and the nicest sense "of personal
honor."
He was at Anacostia, Maryland,
when Cant. Radford called him over
to the Bureau of Aeronautics, explain
ed to him that the division of Avia
tion Training wanted to include in its
preparatory studies for embryo pilots
a thorough-going program of physical
training and that.he (Lt. Commander
Hamilton) was the man whom the
Navy wanted to head the program.
Lt. Commander Hamilton assured tne
Captain that he thought the program
was a splendid one, and that it would
be of great benefit in preparing the
flyers for the great flight yet, in the
same i breath he pointed out that he
would rather not take the position
himself for he had been trained to
fly, and to fight, and to win.
Captain Radford insisted that
there was a job to be done and that
he felt that Hamilton was the man
to do it. A few days later, before
accepting the position, Lt. Com
mander Hamilton suggested that
someone should be sent to Detroit
to attend the Coaches and Physical
Educators Convention, which was
being held the last three days of
December. Captain Radford issued
orders to Lt. Commander Hamilton
to make the trip. The rest is history
among sports people everywhere.
Lt. Commander Hamilton made a
tremendous impression at the conven
tion. With his native ability, plus his
enthusiasm for the program ', he won
leading men in the Nation for the
Navy's cause.
When he returned to the Bureau of
Aeronautics office he brought with
him a list of names, including some
of the best-known personalities in the
American sports scene. He brought
with him, too, the word that he would
be happy to pass up going to sea for
a few months to try to get the pro
gram under way for he had appealed
to the men to make sacrifices in order
to aid the Nation, and he felt that he,
too, should be willing to pass up his
own desires in order to contribute to
a great program.
He worked tirelessly to prepare a
tentative program for the physical
training division a revolutionary
program, yet one which was so sound
that it has appealed to leaders in the
field of sports and physical education
as a plan which appears to be a real
answer to the pressing problem of
properly conditioning the flyers for
the big fight.
Then the organization of the of
fice started to take form. Leaders in
various phases of the sports world
came in to help in the formation f
the physical training division.
A Selection Board was formed,
including in its ranks several of the
most prominent men in the college
athletic world. These men passed
on the merits of the men who sought
positions in the physical training
division.
Commander O. O. Kessing, Lt.
Commander Hamilton and several
other Naval officers visited dozens
of colleges and universities in or
der to select the four schools where
the pre-flight training would be
conducted.
More than 20,000 applicants tried
to obtain the 1,000 positions that
were available in the division. An
interviewing committee traveled
throughout the nation and talked
with the men who wished to enter
the program. Commissions were net
handed out freely, rather were they
given sparingly, and not until the
men had proved their worthiness.
Indoctrination Schools were set up
at the U. S. Naval Academy. The
men who had passed the test of the
interviewers were then sent to An
napolis, to study and work for a
month to indicate that they could
take it, before they should be as
signed the positions of handing it
out.
The officer personnel at the various
schools includes leaders from every
walk of life. Not only do we find the
top-flight men from the sports world,
but also on the list of instructors and
officials are the names of great men
of the Navy, of the academic and pro
fessional life of this Nation.
Thirty thousand cadets a year
that is the total set by the Navy.
Thirty thousand Tom Hamiltons
annually that is the dream of Cap
tain Radford.
Thirty thousand real Navy men,
true to the great traditions of that '
fine branch of the service that is
the aim of the men who man the
stations at the four pre-flight
schools.
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