Also on campus, as we've previously learned, was the ASTP. (Not to be confused with the ROTC.) The Army's Specialized Training Program came about when General George C. Marshall realized that there were shortages throughout his army. Universities became part of the service chain for service men. In ASTP, men already in uniform, or people headed that way, were enrolled in professional and technical classes. ASTP students took up to two years of classes in foreign languages, engineering, medicine and more. More than 800 headshots filled this section of the yearbook, which was 20 pages in the Glomerata.

So it wasn't just the posters or the news, but all of these men marching around.

Reminders of the world beyond the students' familiar environs were constant.

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