Caption: Booklet - UI Response to WWI (1917)
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OTHER PERSONAL SERVICES. Many faculty members have tendered their services to the State and National Governments in various capacities. President Edmund J. James is chairman of a committee formed May 2] to consider ways in which the stale universities may cooperate with the Federal Government in its conduct of the war. Seventeen members of the faculty are imparting instruction to 220 aviators in the School of Military Aeronautics. On the woman's committee of the national council of defense are: Miss Isabel Bevier, head of the household science department of the University; Mrs. Henry M. Dunlap, (76) of Savoy; two members of the board of trustees. Mrs. Mary Busey of Urbana, and Mrs. Laura B. Evans of Taylorville. Some have enlisted in the officers' reserve corps or other branches and will soon see service at the front. Others are serving on committees, and acting in advisory capacities for National and State Governments, aiding in war relief or doing their "bit" in some other line as important and vital, perhaps, as these mentioned. F O O D C O N S E R V A T I O N . The Extension Division of the Household Science Department is organized for a food conservation campaign. During the current year this Division has served twentyone types of organization throughout the state, reaching through them more than 70,000 housekeepers. The cooperation of all these organizations is now being enlisted and the cooperation of the local press has been secured in this service which is concerned primarily with the conservation and utilization of foods, food materials, and textiles. * This campaign will be carried forward under close cooperation with the agricultural extension work of the state. S C H O O L O F M I L I T A R Y A E R O N A U T I C S. On April 30, J917, in response to a call from the W a r Department the University of Illinois agreed to establish a school of Military Aeronautics, which will likely continue throughout the period of the war. This school was to be established with an officer of the regular army detailed as Commandant. and a technical staff made up under the direction of the University. The men who are instructed in this School of Aeronautics are enlisted in the Signal Offii rs' Reserve Corps, and are sent here on orders from Washington. They come at approximately the rate oi twent\ live men per W( k and remain eight weeks. The number of men on baud at tIn pr enl time is approximately 220.
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