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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This action will affect some 47 sophomores and freshmen in the unit here who might not have been able to receive their commissions if the original decision had been carried...
Continuance of the ROTC program at each of the colleges now hinges on the approval of the schools concerned. If a college president requests continuation, the Air Force will withdraw plans to drop the unit. Col. Waldo Jones, professor of Air Science and Tactics, said last night that "the whole thing depends completely upon the decision of the administration," and declined to elaborate...
...Force announced in December that its ROTC unit here and 20 other installations would be discontinued after the 1956-57 academic year. Officials made no provision for commissioning students who were in the basic phase...
Seventeen sophomores were enrolled in the unit when the Air Force announced that the program would be discontinued. These students would have been required to pass a physical exam in order to enter the advanced phase of the program...
Only seven of the seventeen passed the physical, however, and thus qualify for commissions under Jones's plan. Some of the seven have expressed wishes to transfer to the Army ROTC unit, but most indicated in a meeting yesterday that they would rather remain with the Air Force, it was learned...