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From Cadet Officers to Buck PrivatesThis year, for the first time in the University'shistory, R.O.T.C. cadet officers were not cladin trim officers' blouses and tailored "pinks."Instead, they wore the non-fitting, khaki umformof regular army privates-privates' ratings.and they heldAll advanced R.O.T.C. students were calledto active duty with the regular army m April,after the University accepted a n army technicaltraining school for the campus. They were sentto Fort Lewis, Washington, for ten days, afterbeing activated, and at F ort Lewis were "processed"into the armyof "real" army life.and given their fi rst tasteTop-Back row.left to ri]lht: Marshall Spencer. Stan Ferlic. Du .. ne Hansen. Willard Patterson. Ray Greene, Richard Campana, Bernard Poller, RobertKoppe