METEOROLOGISTS NEEDED FOR ARMY

The growing need of the Army for trained meteorologists was the message of a special broadcast last night sponsored by 29 colleges and the Army Air Corps. Men are still desperately needed for the "A", "B', and "C" meteorology courses, which are on a college level and hence may well bring college credit. As far as is known, Harvard will not be one of the participating colleges.

The "A" course is primarily for men with at least two years of college including mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least a year of physics. Such men will then be given eight months of training at the end of which they may receive a commission. The purpose of the "B" course is to train men with only one year of college for the "A" course, while that of the "C" course is to give men just graduating from high school the necessary background.

Importance of Meteorology

The importance of meteorology in determining the course of wars was a major feature of the program. It was revealed that just recently, in the case of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenan, protecting fog and low ceilling foreseen by German meteorologists had prevented aerial interference. The establishment of outposts at Spitzbergen, lecland and Greenland primarily for weather forecasts was stressed as well as the early German occupation of the vital weather post of Narvik.