V-12 Glass Finishes

WORK IN THE V-12 program came to a close on October 23 for 317 Dartmouth trainees. This class, made up of 178 Marines and 139 Apprentice Seamen, was the first to finish the course since the Dartmouth Navy V-12 Unit was established in July as the largest of its kind in the country.

While the Medical School will hold regular graduation exercises, at which 23 firstyear students will receive their A.B. degrees and 25 second-year men will get diplomas, no ceremony will mark the close of the V-12 course for the Navy and Marine trainees in the College proper.

The members of this first V-12 class to finish are men who previously had six or seven semesters of college work before entering the present Navy program. From Dartmouth they will go to other stations to continue their officer training, the Marines to Parris Island and the Apprentice Seamen either directly to Midshipmen's Schools or to general-duty stations while awaiting assignment to such schools.

Among the V-12 graduates this term are a small number of Dartmouth men who also have completed the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree from the College. Diplomas will be mailed to these men in the near future, as well as to a small group of '44 men who completed their course in the civilian College in October.

Departure of the V-12 graduates and of other trainees who have heen dropped because of illness, disciplinary action, 01-academic failure, will considerably reduce the present enrollment of the Dartmouth V-12 Unit, but it is expected that enough V-12 freshmen will enter the program here on November 1 to restore the Unit to approximately its original quota of 2,000 men. Of the new trainees entering with the Winter Term, only a small number are expected to be Marines, in keeping with a new V-12 tendency to have all men in the program start as Apprentice Seamen and transfer into the Marine Corps

At the request of the Thayer School, trainees in that school will be rebilleted for the next term to permit them to room together so far as possible. These men will not all be in the same dorm, but changes in roommates will be effected in order to bring them together.

NEW COMMANDING OFFICER of the Dartmouth V-12 Unit is Captain D. E. Cummings, USN, a veteran of 36 years of active duty, mostly spent at sea in command of ships.