1947 Gem of the Mountains, Volume 45 - University of Idaho Yearbook

Page 169

NROTC There's a lillIe Annapolis on the Idaho campus. (ar from the roaring sea usually associated with Navy life. I,'g the local Nu\'al Re6en'c Officerfi Training Corps, a group of qualified students chosen by the Navy to take training- .....ilh pay-leading to 8n acti"c commiss;on. ForlY 51udcnls enlisted ill the peacetime program last fall, thirty of them (rc6hmclI. Several .....ho were alllong the 180 Na\'y men 011 active dut), here lasl ,'car returned 10 continue their training. Under the cOlllluund of Captain S. II. Ambruster, the jle8cclime progralll trains civilian students who wcar the Na\'y blue and gold only (or drill and lake

Capt.ain S. II. Ambr.uler, U.S.N.

olle course in naval science each semc81er in addition to thcir regular studies. They are paid either $50 a month in addition to tuition fees, books. and uniform, or S20 a month subsistence during junior and senior years, according to the tcrms of their contracts. They depart soon on summer training cruises in the Pacific, to lIa,,路aii. Panama, and jlOrts undesignated. At graduation in a formal ceremony the)' are commissioned

Ensigns, U.S.N. or U.S.N.R. At times during the year the Navy has passed on some of its wealth of material b)' showing aV)'-made war movics to students and faculty. An open-house and Navy Day exhibit, and half路time entertainment at the I-Iomecoming galliC are other of the unit's activities.

C.. mm"r1der K. L. Ill/Iler U.S.N.

Lt. J. L. J楼'illhide U.S.N.

LI. Co", ",dr.

J. K. IPil/;"III.

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hI tI. llf. II. CorN'r

U.S.M.C.


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