Holdings:
* UM-System
* Columbia
Call Number:
(C:29/00/1)
Box1-UMLD1
Record Group: 29 C
Record Sub-Group: 1
Records Title: UMC; Reserve Officer Training Corps; Printed and Duplicated Materials; Brochures and Programs
Dates: 1900-1978
Volume: 1/6 cubic foot, 0.21 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
This Sub-Group contains informational brochures, commissioning ceremony programs, banquet programs, and newsletters produced by the University of Missouri-Columbia's Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs.
Note to Researcher: For more information on MU's ROTC programs, see Record Group 0 C, Sub-Group 1. For information on the MU Army Air Forces Training Program, see Record Group 1, Sub Group 43, Series 39.
Inventory
FF 1 - General ROTC (all branches). Includes regulations of the Missouri State Military School (1894, 1900 and 1904), program for Dedication of Crowder Hall (May 10, 1940), joint Commissioning Ceremony Programs (1955-1978, incomplete), programs for Invitational Drill Meets (1957 & 1960), program for All-Service Awards Parade (April 24, 1999), calendar of events for ROTC Veterans Day events, 2013, and general brochures.
FF 2 - Army ROTC. Includes Army Commissioning Ceremony Program (January 28, 1961), programs from Army ROTC "Dining Out" (1999, 2000), twelve issues of The News-Shell newsletter (May 1966-April/May 1968), two issues of The Torch newsletter (December l, 1975 and February/March, 1976), and a brochure "Army ROTC at UMC" (no date). Also included is one color photograph of Major General John Havens (no date).
Historical Note: John Havens, 1961 graduate of the Missouri School of Mines, was Adjutant General of the Missouri National Guard, 1997-2001.
FF 3 - Navy ROTC. Includes brochures "Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps" (no date), "Information Regarding The Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University of Missouri" (1946), "Navy ROTC Contract Program" (no date), five issues of The Fantail newsletter, 1973-1974, 1978-1979, and one issue of The Captain's Anchor Chain Club newsletter, 2/1994.
FF 4 - Air Force ROTC. Includes banquet programs from "Arnold Air Society Installation Banquet" (ca. 1960s), copies of The 440th Mascot newsletter (ca. 1960s-1972), a general information brochure, and program from "The United States Air Force Band In Concert, Saturday, April 22, 1967", Co-Sponsored by USAF ROTC of Missouri University.
