Yes and no. Dartmouth had a long history of training military officers on campus, and during WW I, the Army virtually took over the campus. During WW II, Dartmouth was one of the largest centers in the country for training naval officers, and Navy ROTC remained strong into the 1960s. Back in my day, they had several flavors of ROTC, but that was eliminated during the 1970s.
At present, there is a small Army ROTC program run on the Dartmouth campus for Dartmouth students by professors from Norwich, a military university in Vermont. Dartmouth provides a meeting place and $10,000 a year, but otherwise is not directly involved. The Marine pictured in my PESO did not participate in ROTC, as there is no Navy ROTC on campus at present. Instead, he attended the Platoon Leaders Course in Quantico, VA during his freshman and junior summers (all Dartmouth sophomore spend that summer on campus). He was commissioned the day before graduation, and graduated in uniform. He is headed to flight school. I did not participate in ROTC or the PLC program, which several of my classmates completed. Instead, along with two classmates, I went to Officers Candidate School in Quantico after graduation. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Does Dartmouth offer ROTC ? > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" > <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO: Valedictorian > > >> Another from the Dartmouth Commencement: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17426721 >> Joel Malkin, linguistics and classics major, perfect grade in every >> course for all 4 years, Phi Beta Kappa, mentor for local high school >> students, new Marine on his way to flight school. >> Comments always welcome. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
