{"id":69129,"date":"2013-10-09T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=69129"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T18:12:05","slug":"video-for-v-12-participants-a-time-to-celebrate-and-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/09\/video-for-v-12-participants-a-time-to-celebrate-and-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: For V-12 participants, a time to celebrate and remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years after they learned the basics of Navy life on the Bates campus, nine alumni of the college&#8217;s V-12 training program returned to campus for their annual luncheon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World War II Came to Bates: A V-12 Reunion\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/76549321?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Video by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gathering at the Benjamin Mays Center on Oct. 8, they shared stories, talked with faculty and students, and heard some music, old and new.<\/p>\n<p>One of their members, Bates alumnus and saxophonist Louis Scolnik \u201945, joined John Smedley (whose day job is as a physics professor) and Tim Clough for a selection of standards, including \u201cI Only Have Eyes for You\u201d and \u201cI May Be Wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bates <em>a cappella<\/em> group the Merrimanders followed with tunes from their more contemporary set list.<\/p>\n<p>Deployed at a number of U.S. colleges during World War II, the Navy&#8217;s V-12 training program was designed to speed the training of much-needed commissioned officers for both the Navy and Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>At Bates, these \u201capprentice seamen\u201d lived in college dorms and participated in classes alongside civilian students. All told, the program prepared 782 men for duty, including Bobby Kennedy, before disbanding in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years after they learned the basics of Navy life on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":69150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12217],"class_list":["post-69129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-v-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69129"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98576,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69129\/revisions\/98576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}