While digging around for more information about William Ward Watkin and the Naval ROTC building (which I didn’t find) I came across this very informative article in a 1941 edition of the student magazine, The Owl, about the origins of the Rice naval unit. I was most interested in the description of the rifle range being built by the handball courts but the mechanics of how the unit was organized and run are probably more important.
Here are the links to the earlier discussion about the location of the rifle range.
Also many thanks to reader Wayne Collins for his comments on this post about the NROTC program.
Bonus: I was over in the old Physics Building the other day and Ann Mikus, the friendly and helpful department administrator for Political Science, shared this photo of the gorgeous view out her window this autumn.
