Thursday, December 13, 2007

OFF TO ENGINEERING SCHOOL - PAGE 6

Having finished a run on the Ball Brothers it was back to Cleveland for evaluation testing that separated William from some of his boot camp buddies and led him to North Dakota to what he referred to as the Naval Trainings School to learn engineering. As near as we can tell this would be the University of North Dakota School of Engineering and Mines. Here is the picture of the school in the summer of 1942.


In the 1940's the school's enrollment dropped dramatically to about 775 students most of whom were women. "The campus became a virtual military camp, with thousands of military men and women training here."












And down they go!













Harold Nichols sporting an expert swing with a tennis racket is the only man identified in these pictures from the scrap book.

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