ARMY, NAVY RADAR UNITS WILL LEAVE BEFORE APRIL 1

All radar and pre-radar training units at the University will leave by April 1, Army and Navy officials revealed to the SERVICE NEWS yesterday, in the most drastic cut of Harvard's service personnel since the closing of the Naval Training School (Indoctrination) on August 1, 1948.

One of the largest groups trained here for the armed forces, the radan school consisted, until last week, of four Army and four Navy pleases, totalling almost 700 students.

Since its establishment in July, 1941, the school had operated on a four-month basis, with one class graduating and a new one entering, for both the Army and Navy, on the first of each month. On January 1, however, neither, of the services sent additional men to replace the graduating officers, and this policy will be followed until all-of the trainees have completed their work.

Both the Army and Navy programs have been open only for commissioned officers since their establishment three and one-half years ago, but the training was the highest level of radar education for the Army, while for the Navy it served merely as a preparatory course for further, advanced work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Until recently, Harvard's pre-radar school was but one of three operated by the Navy, but on April 1, Commander Roy M. Mundorff, USNR, Officer in Charge of the Radar Course, disclosed yesterday, all preliminary radar training will be concentrated at Bowdoin College, Maine.

Colonel John K. Stotz, Signal Corps, USA, head of the Army units in technical training here, announced that a third group, under his command, would remain at the University until the end of July. This school, the USAAF Weather Wings, trains enlisted men in the use of special equipment, not radar, for weather observation.

The closing of the radar training program here will pose several problems for the University typical of those which it will experience during the reconversion period, Professor Emory L. Chaffee, director of the school's staff, admitted.

Professor Chaffee pointed out that the end of the program will leave vacant a large part of the Law School which the units had been using. It will in addition free a large number of civilian instructors, most of whom, he stated, will soon begin research work directly related to the war effort.