This Week in Vanderbilt History

This Week
In Vanderbilt History ...

Nearly 500 members comprising the Vanderbilt units of the Student Army Training Corps were discharged Dec. 10-11, 1918, following the armistice one month earlier. As a part of the war effort, Vanderbilt, along with other colleges and universities, had opened its doors to the SATC, which helped conserve much needed government funds and supplied colleges with students who would otherwise be put in army training camps. The campus virtually became an army camp, changing the lives of everyone at Vanderbilt. Both Kissam and Wesley Halls were turned into army barracks with new furniture, campus roads were improved, labs were enlarged and a canteen was opened. The student newspaper, The Hustler, was the only organization or publication that continued during this period.

Source: Vanderbilt Commodore Nov. 16, 1934
Lyle Lankford, Special Projects Coordinator
-- Meghan Codd

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