Veterinary ROTC Summer Camp

Volume 16 | Issue 1 Article 5 1954 Veterinary ROTC Summer Camp Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastate_veterinarian Part of the Veterinary Medicine Commons Recommended Citation (1954) "Veterinary ROTC Summer Camp," Iowa State University Veterinarian: Vol. 16 : Iss. 1 , Article 5. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastate_veterinarian/vol16/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State University Veterinarian by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact . Veterinary ROTC Summer Camp T HE 1953 ARMY MEDICAL Service Reserve Officer Training Corps Summer Camp at the Medical Field Service School, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex., boasted the largest contingent of veterinary cadets ever to attend an encampment. Totaling 154 students, they came from six veterinary colleges: Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College, Iowa State College, Kansas State College, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, and the New York State Veterinary College of Cornell University. The Veterinary Corps officers in charge of the Veterinary ROTC Units in each of the six veterinary colleges served as instructors in the camp. The Medical Field Service School, the largest military medical school in the world, was responsible for all instruction in the summer camp. The Camp Commander was Maj. General Martin E. Griffin, MC, Commanding General of Brooke Army Medical Center. Serving as Deputy Camp Commander was Col. William E. Jennings, VC, Chief, Veterinary Branch, Department of Professional Sciences, at the Medical Field Service School. The cadets were given diversified training covering general Army subjects and all phases of military veterinary medicine. Their studies included veterinary laboratory service, preventive medicine, Issue 1, 1953-54 public health and food inspection. They inspected the Meat Cutting Plant at Fort Sam Houston and other food inspection facilities. In addition, they visited abattoirs, dairy processing plants and canning plants in San Antonio. They also travelel to Gonzales, Tex., to see the Stahl Brothers Poultry Processing Plant. Their instruction in disease and insect control was supplemented by a trip to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Gonzales, Tex., where the cadets observed research being done in the field of poultry diseases. The cadets also visited the United States Department of Agriculture's Parasitology and Plant Quarantine Experiment Station at Kerrville, Tex., and one of the main projects observed was the development of improved insecticides, more potent, yet not harmful to the animal. The last three days of the encampment were spent at the King Ranch, the world's largest cattle ranch, at Kingsville, Tex. Of special interest to the cadets was the Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle which was developed at the ranch. They were able to see the admirable results of an experiment in summer feeding of cattle. Much experimentation is still being carried on there, especially with the Santa Gertrudis. The summer camp came to a close on July 31, 1953, with the graduation exercises. At this time, two cadets received 29 U. S. Army PhotograPh Veterinary cadets from the 1953 AMS ROTC summer camp at BAMC inspect the mice which were used in experiments at the school of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base. Iowa State College juniors, as indicated by arrows, are from left to right, Bill Lowry, Marvin Mitchell, and Carl Miller. appointments in the United States Air Force Reserve as Veterinary Corps officers. The requirements for the Second Lieutenant commission are that a cadet be graduated from a veterinary college approved by the Surgeon General and also complete six weeks of training at the summer camp. Col. Robert L. Black, MSC, Chief of the Medical Service Corps, was the principal speaker at the exercises. Other guests who visited the camp during the summer were: Dean William A. Hagan of the New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University; Dr. C. D. Van Houweling of the American Veterinary Medical Association; Dr. Richard D. Turk, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College; and Brig. General Jacob L. Hartman, VC, Chief of the Veterinary Corps. The Veterinary Corps officers who served as instructors at the camp were: Col. Charles E. Robinson, VC, Ohio State 30 University; Lt. Col. Edwin J. Sunderville, VC, Cornell University; Maj. Martin A. Ross, VC, University of Pennsylvania; Maj. Gordon W . Vacura, VC, Kansas State College; Maj. Bernard H. Skold, VC, Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College; and Capt. Samuel Thompson, VC, Iowa State College. Dr. R. D. Barner, working with Kansas cattle, found that 96 percent of the cattle infected with bovine keratitis (pink eye) carried the organism Moraxella bovis in their ocular secretions. The organism was not found in the eyes of normal cattle examined for comparison. Norway has been declared to be free from foot-and-mouth disease by the U.S.D.A. The prohibition upon importation of liVEstock and livestock products from Norway has hence been lifted. Iowa State College Veterinarian  (...truncated)