DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY
SCIENCE COLLECTION
1943-2000
East
Tennessee State
University
University Archives
Box
70295
Johnson City,
Tennessee 37614
E-Mail – archives@etsu.edu
Telephone - (423)
439-4338
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INTRODUCTION
Title: Department of Military Science Collection
Collection Number: Accession No. 712
Physical description: 3 linear ft. (2 boxes)
11 black & white photographs
Creator: Department of Military Science, East Tennessee
State University
Repository: University Archives, East Tennessee
State University
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance: The Department of Military
Science Collection was donated to University Archives by Darlene Cole,
Executive Aide, Department of Military Science, ETSU, on September 22 and
October 26, 2005.
Access:
The collection is open for research.
Processing Information: The collection
was processed by Kirk Hrivnak in April 2008.
HISTORICAL NOTE
ETSU’s Department of
Military Science was established on campus in 1952 as the Department of
Military Science and Tactics. Its primary mission has been to operate the
United States Army’s Reserved Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on
campus. The modern Army
ROTC was created by the National Defense Act of 1916 and commissioned its first
class of lieutenants in 1920. It was patterned after the British Officers
Training Corps, which supplied most of the British officers in World War I. Each year graduating students in the
program can be commissioned and enter the U. S. Army with the rank of second
lieutenant. The department’s first chairman and the ROTC unit’s first commander
was Lt. Col. Willys H. Pearson.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Department of
Military Science Collection consists of 41 World War II era Johnson City, Tenn., newspapers describing military
operations between 1943 and 1945; three publications about the ROTC Camp Adventure/Camp
Challenge held in 1986, 1991, and 1992; and 11 black and white photographs
related to the ROTC flag ceremony outside Brooks Gym in 1999 and 2000. The
collection documents both activities of the university’s ROTC unit as well as
that unit’s interest in World War II military history. The collection is
arranged into two series, as follows: Series I, Publications, 1943-1992, Boxes 1-2 and Series
II, Photographs, 1999-2000, 1 folder housed in Small Photographic Collections
Box 8. Material is Series I is arranged by publication title and then
chronologically. Photographs in Series II are arranged by date order.
Important subjects covered in the collection include:
East Tennessee
State University—Dept. of Military Science.
Johnson City Press-Chronicle
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
World War, 1939-1945—History
World War,
1939-1945—Sources
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series I,
Publications, 1943-1992, Boxes 1-2.
Series I consists of
three publications related to the ROTC’s Camp Adventure and Camp Challenge
programs held in 1986, 1991, and 1992 and 41 Johnson City, Tenn., newspapers
from the period 1943-1945 that document military operations during World War
II. Material in this series is arranged alphabetically by publication title and
then chronologically.
Series II,
Photographs, 1999-2000, 1 folder housed in Small Photographic Collections Box 8.
Series II consists
of 11 black & white photographic prints of the ROTC flag ceremony and
program held at the flagpoles outside Brooks Gym in 1999 and 2000. The prints
are arranged by date.
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Series I,
Publications, 1943-1992, Boxes 1-2.
Box
1
1. Camp Adventure,
1991.
2. Camp Challenge,
1986.
3. Camp Challenge,
1992.
Box
2
1. Johnson City Press, February 19, 1943.
2. Johnson City Press, March 9, 1943.
3. Johnson City Press, March 25, 1943.
4. Johnson City Press, May 19, 1943.
5. Johnson City Press, June 2, 1943.
6. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, August 9, 1943.
7. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 12, 1943.
8. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September
12, 1943.
9. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 15, 1943.
10. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 15, 1943.
11. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, January 10, 1944.
12. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, January 28,
1944.
13. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, February 28, 1944.
14. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, March 3, 1944.
15. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, May 7, 1944.
16. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, August 9, 1944.
17. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 14, 1944.
18. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 23, 1944.
19. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, November 16, 1944.
20. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, December 6,
1944.
21. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, January 8, 1945.
22. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, January 15, 1945.
23. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, February 23, 1945.
24. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, March 30, 1945.
25. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, May 4, 1945.
26. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, June 5, 1945.
27. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, June 18, 1945.
28. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, June 21, 1945.
29. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, August 24, 1945.
30. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 7, 1945.
31. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 9, 1945.
32. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 16, 1945.
33. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 17, 1945.
34. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September
18, 1945.
35. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, September 26, 1945.
36. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 10, 1945.
37. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 17, 1945.
38. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 21, 1945.
39. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 23, 1945.
40. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 24, 1945.
41. Johnson City Press-Chronicle, October 30, 1945.
Series II,
Photographs, 1999-2000, 1 folder housed in Small Photographic Collections Box 8.
1. Photographs,
1999-2000.