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Fifth page of SATC scrapbook
Fifth page of SATC scrapbook. There are four black and white photos on a black paper background with 'SATC' written horizontally across the top. The top left-hand photo is a long trench dug in the ground with a mound of logs on one side of it. Buildings and possibly railroad tracks visible in background. Beneath it is written 'Over the Top' (double apostrophes included). The top right-hand corner is a photo of a trench in a field with a short wall of logs on one side of it. Written under it is 'Front Line Trench.' The bottom left-hand photo is rows of bundled twigs and branches supported by a wooden framework. Written beneath it is 'Bayonet Run. SATC.' The bottom right-hand photo is of a pond or lake with trees and buildings in the background and docks and a small wooden platform in the middle ground.
Georgetown, TX -
Sixth page of SATC scrapbook
Sixth page of SATC scrapbook. There are four black and white photos on a black paper background. 'No Mans Land S.A.T.C.' is written in the space between the photos. The top left-hand photo is of bundles of twigs and branches hung from a wooden structure set up in a field. Under it is written 'Bayonet Run'. The photo in the top right-hand corner is of a hole in the ground with a mound of dirt encircling and fence posts and barbed wire around it. Under the photo is written 'Shell Hole.' The photo on the bottom left-hand side is of more holes surrounded by dirt in a field with more fence posts and wire strung up around and between them. Buildings, trees, and a railroad track are visible in background. Under it is written 'Barbed Wire Entanglement.' The photo on the bottom right-hand side is of a cement platform with a circle missing from the middle with a post or structure in the center. The cement fixture is in front of a large pond or lake and trees and a dock or platform are visible in the background.
Georgetown, TX -
Seventh page of SATC scrapbook
Seventh page of SATC scrapbook. There are four black and white photos on a black paper background. The photo on the top left-hand side is of an expanse of field in front of campus buildings. Under it is written 'Mood Hall'. The photo on the top right-hand side of the page is of a man standing in a trench dug in a field. Buildings and trees are visible in the background. Under the photo is written 'Private Chadwick'. The photo on the bottom left-hand side is of a man standing and posing by the bayonet run - a row of bundles of twigs and branches hung from a wooden structure. Buildings and trees are visible in the background. The photo on the bottom right-hand side is of the same man in the previous photo, who is standing with one foot propped up on one of the fence posts set up as a barbed wire entanglement. Fence posts and barbed wire are visible on either side of the man and buildings and trees are visible in the background.
Georgetown, TX -
First page of SATC Volunteer Signup Sheet (Southwestern)
First page of Volunteer Signup page, names are in the left-hand column and addresses (city names and states) on the right (seventeen of each). The writing is in white on a black background. Attached at the top is a paper label that reads, 'Special Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.) Southwestern Volunteer Organization'. On the back of first page, names are in the left-hand column and addresses (city names and states) on the right (sixteen of each). The writing is in white on a black background.
Georgetown, TX -
Second page of SATC Volunteer Signup (Southwestern)
Second page of Volunteer Signup page, names are in the left-hand column and addresses (city names and states) on the right (nineteen of each). The writing is in white on a black background. Written on the top of the page is 'Students Army Training Corps.' On the back of second page, names are in the left-hand column and addresses (city names and states) on the right (seventeen of each). The writing is in white on a black background.
Georgetown, TX -
Third page of SATC Volunteer Signup (Southwestern)
Third page of Volunteer Signup page, names are in the left-hand column and addresses (city names and states) on the right (seven of each). The writing is in white on a black background. On the back of third page of Volunteer Signup page, the left ruled column is labeled 'Name' and the right is labeled 'Address' but neither has anything listed beneath. The writing is in white on a black background.
Georgetown, TX -
Brief outline of War Issues Course
Typed letter with 'Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. Office of the President' in the upper left-hand corner as blue letterhead. The letter has a vertical watermark that reads 'Oriole Linen Bond'. The body of the letter is addressed to President Robert E. Vinson, District Educational Director, SATC, and it regards the “character and organization” of a proposed 'War Issues Course at Southwestern University,' including plans for the Fall, Winter, and Spring terms. It specifies the members of the course planning committee as 'C. A. Nichols, Professor of Education, Chairman, A. S. Pegues, Dean, Professor of Economics, Walter Prichard, Acting Professor of History, J. C. Gobey, Professor of Chemistry.'
Georgetown, TX -
List of course subjects with instructors and class size
This is a handwritten chart on a drawn grid (the paper has a watermark of Requisition Bond). At the top of the page is 'Institution[:] Southwestern University' and 'P.O.Address[:] Georgetown, Texas'. The chart has four columns, 'Subject,' 'Name of Officer in Charge,' 'No. of Instructors in Subject,' and 'No. of SATC Students,' the last of which is divided again into two columns, '1st Term' and '2nd Term Estimated'. The subjects are 'Military Law + Practice,' 'Sanitation + Hygiene,' 'Surveying + Mapmaking,' 'Mathematics,' 'Physics,' 'Chemistry,' 'Biology,' then two erased row values, 'English,' 'French,' 'German,' 'Geology + Geography,' 'History,' 'Psychology' and then three more erased rows.
Georgetown, TX -
Letter responding to Naval request, dated Oct. 9, 1918
This is a typed letter dated 'October 9, 1918'. It is addressed to 'Ensign AK Barbee, USNRF Aide to Commandant, 8th Naval District, New Orleans, La.' and is from the 'Acting Registrar' of Southwestern. The body of the letter contains an acknowledgement of the receipt of the letter from Barbee to the registrar with the list of men placed on the inactive list. Following that, the author states that these men 'have lost more than a week from their studies' because of the lack of the communication between the University of Texas at Austin, Southwestern University, and the Naval Commandant. It closes with the promise of the requested information being sent to the Naval Commandant once the men have been registered for courses.
Georgetown, TX -
Letter responding to Naval Reserve request for information, dated Oct. 18, 1918
This typed letter is addressed to 'Commandant, Eight Naval District, US Naval Station, New Orleans, La.' and is signed (typed) 'President.' It is dated 'Oct. 18, 1918'. The body of the letter reads, 'I beg to advise:- 1. Our temporary contract [both words underlined] with the War Department calls for a per diem rate of $1.3888 for Board, Quarters and Tuition. 2. There are nine (9) Naval Reservists regis-[sic] at this Institution. 3. A statement of their College work will be forwarded you as soon as we sufficiently recover from the Influenza epidemic.'
Georgetown, TX