NAVAL SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL OPENS WITH 250 COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

While 2500 undergraduates are winding their way through the maze of registration this week, across the river in the Business School Uncle Sam's Naval Supply Corps School will enroll some 250 commissioned officers for a five-month course ending in March.

Following close on the heels of the first session this summer, when 392 men, including John Roosevelt, the President's son, were trained as supply corps officers in a twelve-weeks course, this second session will be longer and more complete.

The faculty of twelve officers, which includes all the men previously in the Government School at Philadelphia, closed in July and moved to Harvard for the duration of the national emergency. It is headed by Captain K.C. McIntosh, S.C., U. S. N. Ret., with Commander R.F. Batchelder S.C. U. S. N. as Executive Officer.

Of the 250 expected, 60 are either regular line officers of the Navy who are graduates of Annapolis and have had two years at sea, or reserve Supply Corps officers with six months training at sea, or men who graduated last June from N.R.O.T.C. units all over the country. The remaining 190 are reserve officers taken directly from civil life who have been inactive until now.

Most of this last group are college graduates of the class of '41, but some have been doing graduate work until they were called this Fall. The enrollment also includes four Coast Guard officers transfering to the Supply Corps.

All the students have the rank of Ensign or higher and must pass the rigorous physical requirements of the Navy before being admitted to the School, which starts classes on Monday, September 29.

The Summer session, under the command of Commander E. A. Eddiegorde, S.C., U. S. N., saw the students quite active in pursuits outside the ordinary curriculum. Several editions of a newspaper, devoted to School news and edited by several of the men, were published and the last one covering the graduation exercises in Memorial Hall is near completion. Also at the end of the term there appeared a "Year Book" with the pictures, names and addresses of each of the men and instructors and informal snapshots taken during the Summer.