Dean Takes V-12 Course

DEAN LLOYD K. NEIDLINGER '23, recently spent ten days at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, Columbia University, New York City, attending an Orientation Course for civilian representatives of the colleges participating in the V-12 program. The.course, which is being conducted in four identical sessions of approximately two weeks each, is being sponsored by the Navy Department for the purpose of making available to men serving as advisers to V-12 trainees "a wider understanding of the Navy itself, its operation and its mission."

Consisting of lectures, movies, and observation trips to a Navy Yard, a Navy Air Field, various types of training schools, and the Marine Barracks at Quantico, the course offers the college representatives the opportunity of viewing the Navy at first hand and meeting and talking to officers experienced in many and varied activities.

Included on the program for the first week was a lecture on the History of the Navy by Lt. Albert L. Demaree USNR, Professor of History at Dartmouth, on leave from the College for service in the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington.

The second session of the course was attended by Dr. Rolf C. Syvertsen '18, secretary of the Dartmouth Medical School and Civilian Executive of the V-12 Premedical and Medical Program at Dartmouth.