Army Specialized Training Program : records, 1941-1946 bulk 1942-1943.

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Army Specialized Training Program : records, 1941-1946 bulk 1942-1943.

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The collection contains materials relating to the establishment, administration and cessation of the A.S.T.P program at Rhode Island State College and includes: curriculum, course evaluations, costs and housing arrangements; U.S. War Department circular releases; contracts and data sheets; daily bulletins; AZTAP, the program's yearbook; commencement program; correspondence between college administrators and various military and civilian officials; and correspondence of parents of some A.S.T.P. graduates. Principal correspondents include Rhode Island State College president Carl Woodward and Maj. George W. Gage, commandant of the Kingston unit.

1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston, University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7448073

University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston, University Library

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Woodward, Carl Raymond, 1890-

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Carl C. Woodward was born on July 20, 1890 in Tennant, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University as an undergraduate from 1910-1914, earned a Master's degree from Rutgers in 1919, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1926. From 1920-1926 he taught English at Rutgers, and in 1928, he was promoted to assistant to the president of the university. He remained in this position until President Robert C. Clothier appointed him Secretary in 1936. Dr. Woodward's tenure as Secretary of the University ended in 194...

Rhode Island State College

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The Rhode Island State College unit of the U.S. Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.) was based on the Kingston campus from June, 1943 to April, 1944. During that period trainees under the supervision and discipline of the army received instruction in prescribed courses from the college's regular faculty. From the description of Army Specialized Training Program : records, 1941-1946 bulk 1942-1943. (University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston). WorldCat record id: 42305557 ...

Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)

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Unit 3900 of the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) was established by the War Department at Oregon State College in March 1943. The program provided training for high grade technicians and specialists needed by the Army for the war effort. Most of the instruction was provided by regular Oregon State College faculty; E.B. Lemon, as Dean of Administration, was Coordinator of the ASTP for Oregon State. Enrollment peaked in the summer of 1943 with more than 1300 ASTP students at Oregon State ...

Gage, George William (American painter 1887-1957)

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