New Meteorology Program Lowers Math Requirement

A new Air Force Meteorological Training Program, with far less stringent mathematics requirements than were previously required and a probable commission, will be explained in the Lowell House Junior common Room Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock by Professor Sarrel E. Gleason '27, Consultant to the Army Air Forces.

Even though service enlistments have been closed, the Air Force hopes to get the men it approves transferred to this program after their induction into the Army, the War Service Information Bureau revealed last night. Men in ERC may apply for assignment, since they are already enlisted in the army, but men in V-1, V-5, and V-7 are absolutely ineligible.

Three Programs

There are three training programs under this main Air Force plan. The "C" program is open to men with two years of high school mathematics, including algebra and plain geometry, and one year of high school science. This course lasts 12 months and admits men to the eight-month "A" course, whose graduates are Second Lieutenants.

The "B" course, whose prerequisite is a year of college math, including college algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry, admits a man to the "A" course after six months. Juniors and Seniors who have had the above subjects, plus differential and integral calculus and a year of physics, may enter the "A" course directly.

The "C" course will open on February 1, 1943, the "B" course on March 1, 1943, and there will be two "A" courses, one starting on January 4, 1943, the other June 21, 1943. Of those who successfully complete the program, about 85 percent are sent overseas on active duty.