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8-CLINCOLN SUNDAY JOURNAL AND STARJuly 8, 191542-year-old American e to start German housingBY HUDSON PHILLIPS.NEW YORK. UP). Clifford S. Strike. 42 year old engineer, is just about ready to tackle the biggest reconstruction job in history.His task is to clean up the wrecked villages and cities in the American zone ot occupation in Germany.And then he must build homesland oil11,000,0 there in barns/’ This complic Housing by win! tirely b from 2,1 All mal come fiGPs returning to college find it difficult to adjust selves to changed circumstances of school environmentBY SGT. BILL DAVIDSON.l'mk Stiff Writer Norih American Newspaper Alliance.In February 1945, a boy named Harold Baumgarten went back to the New York university arts college, resuming his studies as a freshman., A few months later, Baumgarten was playing in a varsity ball game against Ford-ham.Now there is nothing remarkable about this, except that as Pvt. Harold Baumgarten of the Bronx, N. Y , he had stepped on to Omaha Beach at H-Hour, D-Day with his 29th division assault company and an «6-xrun. sneii iragment ripped awav the left half of his face—teeth, cheek and gums Nevertheless, he kept moving.BEFORE HE WAS evacuated 36 hours later, he was wounded four times more. Shell fragments creased his skull, an S-mine shattered his knee, and machine-gun bullets smashed the small bones of his right foot.He was discharged from a hospital in the states on Feb. 12, 1945 Two days later he was b2ck in college.Baumgarten is pretty typical of the 23,478 discharged veterans who are already going to college Under the educational provisions of the GI bill of rights. While he was in the hospital, Baumgarten read the literature on various colleges provided in army kits and made up his mind about returning to NYU to prepare for medicine.When Baumgarten showed up, the semester had already begun. He immediately started classes— the university itself staking him to tuition, books and laboratory equipment out of its own funds, months before official approvalcame thru from the Veterans1Administration.* # »OF TjHE VETS now in college, 1,957, or more than 8 percent are at New York university alone. This highlights an interesting controversy over the veteran problem which has torn the educational world in twoOne side in this controversy is led by Robert Hutchins, the University of Chicago's unorthodox young president, who claims that the educational provisions of the GI bill of rights were rushed thru congress without the consultation of educators and that, as a result, there are flaws in the bill that can wreck American education and convert a frightening number of veterans into what he calls “educational hoboes.”college of engineering. He is 29. The other students in his class are 16 and 17.THE HUTCHINS point of view seems to be in the minority. Vigorously upholding the other side of the controversy is New York university. Prof. Marie Giannini of the NYU college of engineering takes direct issue with Hutchins on two major points. “In the first place/’ he says, “it is the responsibility of the colleges to provide post-high-school vocational - technological training—not industry, where there is neither the time nor inclination for schools of this sort. This is the only way the veteran can be kept out of the hands of shyster trade schools, such as those which set up in an empty store and claim to teach drafting or radar overnight.»»BUT DESPITE the battle raging among the respective educators, the veterans at both the University of Chicago and New York university seem to be doing all right.At New York university, the scholastic average of the veterans is slightly higher than the average other students. At Chicago, it is about the same. This represents quite a victory for the men involved. Joe Mankovitz, for example/ is a freshman m the NYUMankovitz was graduated from an Astoria, L. I, high school 12 years ago. Then he kicked around a bit and eventually ran a fruit-and-vegetable store. In 1942, he enlisted in the coast guard and became interested in Diesel engines. He was m on the North African invasion in 1942, putting part of the Ninth division ashore in his LCI. Just before D-day, he got a medical discharge, and became a civilian.But the Diesels really had him. He decided to become an engineer.ANOTHER MAN who had apretty tough time is Ed Wood of Chicago. Young Wood was an ASTP student fooling around with engineering, when he was suddenly .yanked out last summer and thrown into the army. He became an infantry replacement m the Seventh armored division.Wood went all the way across France with the Seventh armored. Just outside Metz, when Patton ran into his first stiff resistance, it was the armored infantry of the Seventh that got tapped. Wood was digging in alongside a canal when the position was straddled by 88 fire. Wood got it in the head and in the buttocks. He was paralyzed for months. He didn’t even know the name of the city where he had been hit. He just knew it was “great big place down the highway from Verdun/*• * . *MANY OF THE vets who are in college now would not have been able to go without the GI bill of rights or public law 16. Others would have had to struggle their way thru by working at the same time. Ex-Lt. Walter Eaton of Los Angeles, for instance, was graduated from U. C. L. A. in 1938, and kicked around trying to write and sell sociological essays. He was handicapped by his lack of advanced* degrees, but he didn’thave nearly enough money to go back to college.Then came three years in the army, a hitch in New Caledonia, a siege of dengue fever and a discharge. Today, at 29, Eaton is taking his master’s and doctor's degrees at the University of Chicago under the GI bill of rights. When he gets out, he can teach or write or both.* * *THE PROCESS for getting into college under the GI bill is very simple: 1. The veteran fills out Form 1950 which is available at Veterans’ Administration offices, colleges, and government information agencies; 2. He sends this form to the Veterans’ Administration office nearest his home; 3 The Veterans’ Administration investigates the vet's service record to make sure that he was not dishonorably discharged, etc., and sends the vet a letter of eligibility; 5. The university sends a certification to the Veterans’ Administration stating that the vet has been admitted, and listing the course he is taking; 6. The Veterans’ Administration sends a letter of approval, if they find the college and the courses satisfactory.The vet is then formally registered under the GI bill. The Veterans’ Administration pays his fees, and eventually, after months of kicking around in channels, the vet’s subsistence money comes thru. * # *ANOTHER BIG problem for thevets is trying to get along with the 16-and-17-year-old kids now cluttering the campuses. When a boy reaches 18 today he is drafted, so there are very few civilian students over 17. Si Scharer, who is 26 and has been married for years, got so fed up with the adolescent titterings in a “Marriage and the Family” courses at NYU that he finally had to drop the subject. Ed Wood lives at one of the University of Chicago dormitories, Burton Hudson Court. He often has to lock himself in his room in order to get his work done. The constant topic -of conversation of the kids in his dormitory is “When are we going to get drafted?” They bring their questions to Wood.War Scarce Home FurnishingsCan be reconditioned for longer service in our modern plant!Cleaning—-A Itering Re-Dyeing——Repairing Moth ProtectingRemoval of Dog Spots from Carpets before Cleaning on the Floor.LINCOLN RUGFactory and CleanersCirpets—Sap—Firlor 5*H«f3601 So. 37 4-2354SAB GftEEN STAMPSEARIwas na materia the eco United ell for ( GermarStrik. status I the staClay, dunderhower.Befor his pres and tre and d Conn., tion fij dealt ifHe w than $: work, 1Bermuc $31,000, works and an Sheffie:A fai brown explainthings this tin give ar Here is to him“THIconstrurenderc damage paired extent, we havcomes“Nabuildibegimself ir neede-job. ‘ “In to pat others types whole from “Wlt;we can many i do the “Our handica the bac system.rI***t\133
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Jul 08, 1945
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