Col. Wood, New PMS&T, Heads Army Specialized Program Here

Officially assuming command of the Harvard ROTC's yesterday, Colonel William S. Wood, new PMS&T, announced that when the Army Specialized Training Schools start here he will be guided by an attempt "to inculcate in the men the high standards that have been set by the ROTC in the last two decades."

Revealing that he, as present head of the Field Artillery and Quartermaster reserve units here, will become commandant of the entire Harvard AST program upon its inception, Colonel Wood explained that the exact date for this change is still foggy. "The AST will begin at Harvard just as soon as the Army can get it in motion," he said.

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Colonel Wood comes to Harvard from Fort Ethan Allan in Vermont, where he was commanding officer for several years, and has had previous experience with ROTC units. His post in Vermont was the site of the summer camp formerly attended by members of the reserve corps after their junior year, and he supervised the Yale and Harvard Field Artillery cadets during their drills there until they were abolished last year.

Colonel Francis A. Doniat, former head of the unit, who left on March 11, is now in Washington for a short term of "indoctrination" before reporting to Omaha, Nebraska, to take command of War Manpower Commission activities for a large sector of the mid-west.

The new PMS&T, who will live at the Hotel Continental while on duty here, explained that many of the details on the Army program are of necessity vague, but he did state that from 2,000 to 3,000 men are expected to comprise the Harvard contingent.

They will be taught presumably by civilian faculty men, but a staff of about 65 officers will also be required to take care of the large group. The present Shannon Hall organization will be retained only as long as Field Artillery and Quartermaster ROTC men are left in College, which, according to present plans, will be until the end of May.

V. M. I. Graduate

Born in Virginia in 1879, Colonel Wood was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in Artillery in 1902, after graduating from Virginia Military Institute. During World War 1, he was a Lieutenant Colonel and later a Colonel overseas, reverting to a Major in 1919. He was reappointed a full Colonel in 1934.

In his long term of service, Colonel Wood has seen duty with both the Quartermaster Corps and the Inspector General's Department, as well as the Field Artillery, his first and present love.