Video: For V-12 participants, a time to celebrate and remember
Seventy years after they learned the basics of Navy life on the 乐播传媒 campus, nine alumni of the college’s V-12 training program returned to campus for their annual luncheon.
Video by Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College
Gathering at the Benjamin Mays Center on Oct. 8, they shared stories, talked with faculty and students, and heard some music, old and new.
One of their members, 乐播传媒 alumnus and saxophonist Louis Scolnik 鈥�45, joined John Smedley (whose day job is as a physics professor) and Tim Clough for a selection of standards, including 鈥淚 Only Have Eyes for You鈥� and 鈥淚 May Be Wrong.鈥�
The 乐播传媒 a cappella group the Merrimanders followed with tunes from their more contemporary set list.
Deployed at a number of U.S. colleges during World War II, the Navy’s V-12 training program was designed to speed the training of much-needed commissioned officers for both the Navy and Marine Corps.
At 乐播传媒, these 鈥渁pprentice seamen鈥� lived in college dorms and participated in classes alongside civilian students. All told, the program prepared 782 men for duty, including Bobby Kennedy, before disbanding in 1945.
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