Reserve Officers Training Corps, Yale University, records
Scope and Contents
The records consist of correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia documenting the activities and operations of the Army and Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Yale.
Dates
- 1917-1996
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Arrangement
The records are arranged by type of material.
Extent
2.7 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The records consist of correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia documenting the activities and operations of the Army and Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Yale.
Biographical / Historical
The Yale Battery was the first Army training program established at Yale in 1915. Eventually Yale had four batteries which became the Connecticut 10th Field Artillery of the National Guard. In 1916, Yale replaced its batteries with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and the Yale Naval Training Unit (originally the Motor Boat Patrol and later known as NROTC). In the spring of 1918, existing ROTC programs were suspended and replaced with the Student Army Training Corps (SATC). The program was designed to establish military training units in colleges and to substitute specialized military training for the normal curriculum during World War I. Students were subject to military regulations and the existing ROTC programs (Army and Naval) were coordinated by the SATC. The SATC was demobilized by Congress in 1918. The ROTC programs were re-established at Yale in 1919.
General note
Forms part of Yale Record Group 42-A (YRG 42-A), Records of military training programs at Yale.
- Soldiers -- Education, Non-military -- United States
- United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
- United States. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Universities and colleges -- Administration
- Yale University -- Administration
- Yale University -- Students
- Yale University. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Yale University. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
- Title
- Guide to the Reserve Officers Training Corps, Yale University, Records
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by Daniel Hartwig
- Date
- February 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
(203) 432-1735
(203) 432-7441 (Fax)
beinecke.library@yale.edu
Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511