Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1942 [PAGE 11]

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Vurora, K kfonl, Dixon, !'• rdstown, Danville, ' h 11 1 , Evanston, East St. Louis, and Moline. Sis. Further i ur es arc in the proi ? of organization such a I Iti h I i|m-iu\ I hniques, M u s s Analysis, Theory and Practi oi Rein 1 IS 1 ncrete D sign, Pyrometry, Serial Bombardment Protection for Ci\ T ining For Radio Engineers and Technicians; and more industrial community iblished will shortly b< added to the list given above. It seems highly probable that mor ippro* than five thousand of the- n u n and women of Illinois—engin . j luction Phis supervisors, metallurgists, chemists, foremen, accountants, and others who indi- up the non-commissioned officers of the State's industrial army will > in' c ifficc to 'oms, laboratori and shops, often after the day's work, to b me time the student body of the University's E.S.M.D.T. pr< ram. tion on fb) The Division has provided courses in conversational Spanish for tin estiga« icers of the Air Corps stationed at Chanute Field. There have been aim* nvj onf hundred of thes< officers receiving this instruction, which came as a result of s • " lir live from the W a r Department to all such officers to learn the langua lt coni i The Division is having prepared by the appropriate staff member 1 sumrials for courses for young men who, lacking the necessary colle trainin offices idmission to the flying cadet sch< Is of the United States Army, wish to pr< for the mental examination required by the Army in lieu of sixty

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This is the channel through which flow the requests u>r University faculty and student speak fn p n im chairmen of clubs and organizations in the State. The Bureau s been b oking speaking en :ments for those able and willing to inform the public on the problems of our National war effort. This is an imi rtant

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