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Norman W. Fradd will return Monday to his position as assistant director of physical education which he left on a leave of absence in June, 1944. An expert on physical education, he has served since his departure as a civilian consultant on rehabilitation and reconditioning, attached to the First Service command...
Adolph W. Samborski '25, who has been acting assistant director of physical training activities in Fradd's absence, will return next week to this former duties as director of intramural athletics...
These new reconditioning facilities replace the base which had been operating at Fort Devens since March, 1944. When Fradd left Harvard last June to assume his new duties, some 300 casualties had come for treatment at Devens, having been released from Lovell and Cushing General Hospitals, and from several other receiving centers in this area. As the list reached a peak of 1,100, these facilities proved inadequate, and thus the new "Convalescent Hospital at Camp Edwards" came into being...
...greatest difficulty confronting him, says Fradd, who first came to the University in 1919 as an instructor in Physical Education, is the lack of enough well-trained enlisted men to carry on this work. He and his associates are currently trying to build up a large staff of competent personnel who, in addition to their regular training in this field, will have also seen action under fire themselves. This experience makes them better able to work with war-weary battle casualties...
...soon he will return to his duties at Harvard depends, says Fradd, on several factors, including the size of future casualty lists and the demand created by veterans returning to their studies. In the meantime, he can devote only partial attention to the post-war problems of the Physical Education Department