Word: beukema
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard will carry on with its present sports program until definite orders to the contrary are received from Washington," Carroll F. Getchell, business manager of the Harvard Athletic Association; said last night, commenting upon a statement of Colonel Herman Beukema, director of the Army Specialized Training Program, that trainees could not participate in intercollegiate sports...
...released by Colonel Herman Beukema, director of the program, the governmental statement announced that "the program would be in full swing by April 1." It is probable, however, that this applies only to the formation of individual technical schools and not to the nauguration of the overall plan, which would include calling the R. O. T. C. to active duty and sending draftees to colleges for general technical training...
...Beukema simultaneously released figures on the status of the reserve plans throughout the country, and stated that at the present time there are 19,400 students in all special categories...
Organized by Colonel Herman Beukema, professor of economics, government and history at West Point (see p. 56), the new educational program will run for two months, enable soldiers to hear such observers as Raymond Clapper, Hanson W. Baldwin, Carl Crow, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Since part of the course will be a day-to-day interpretation of current events, maps are being installed in soldiers' day rooms on which shifting battles can be checked and charted...
While Colonel Beukema's program was getting under way, another Army educational venture went into high gear on a smaller front. To a series of three-times-a-week classes planned by hard-boiled Lieut. General Ben Lear and soft-spoken Major Robert Allen Griffin (TIME, Nov. 24) went the 125,000 officers and men of the Second Army. The Lear-Griffin outline of their program...