Reserve Officers Training Corps papers, 1958.

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Reserve Officers Training Corps papers, 1958.

Contains the following types of materials: unit histories, reports / studies. Contains information pertaining to the following military unit and organization: Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). General description of the collection: Reserve Officers Training Corps papers include higher education in the National Defense by Gene M. Lyons and John W. Masland. This is part (1) of a preliminary draft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7575988

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United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps

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The Department of Military Science was established at the University of Oregon in 1919. The school had sponsored military training through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program before the creation of a Military Science department. In January 1916, then University of Oregon, (UO) president Prince Lucien Cambell, established a ROTC curriculum led by LTC John Leader, a retired British officer. Over 100 students participated in the first drill in March 1916, le...