Word: bonney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proposing to fill 112 positions still open in the Harvard Naval ROTC complement, Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U.S.N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced yesterday provisions of the new Holloway plan for midshipmen and plans for admitting veterans to the advanced courses of his department. Fifty percent of the 108 men enrolled in the unit this term are ex-servicemen...
...moving from the wartime Naval Headquarters at the President's House on Quincy Street to the permanent Naval Science Headquarters at 28 Divinity Place, Captain Bonney explained that undergraduates could now enter the unit as regular, contract, or Naval Science students not working toward a commission...
...August, 1945 Bonney was appointed Deputy Commander of Service Squadron 10, the Naval logistics unit for all territory west of Hawaii, which later became known as Admiral Nimitz's "secret weapon." He held this post until his transfer to the University NROTC program was announced...
...anticipation of the signing of a bill now on the President's desk, Bonney announced that the training unit would operate under two separate plans next fall: the pre-war policy, ending in a commission in the Naval Reserve; and, under the new bill, a system whereby the trainee would sign a contract with the Navy, agreeing to serve for two years in the regular Navy after graduation and to remain in the Naval Reserve enough additional time to complete six years of duty...
...Bonney expects to receive five times the number of applications acceptable under quota restrictions, even though the quota's pre-war level of 200 has been raised to 296, and announced that of this number only 100 may be Freshmen...