VOLUME III, Number 2
14 January 1963
COLLEGE STUDY
The quadratic equation and rock analysis are supplementing military train
ing for more than 50 Navy men at the U. S. Naval Station Adak Island in the
Aleutians,
The University of Alaska has begun extension classes on Adak in College
Algebra and in methods of mining, in a new evening class program for naval
personnel and their dependents.
The Adak branch is experimental this semester, but in February, the Navy
hopes, the program will be expanded to include six or seven college courses.
Navy men attend classes for University.of Alaska credit at reduced.tuition,
with the help of the Navy’s Tuition Aid Program, Under the Tuition Aid Plan,
the Navy will pay up to 75 per cent of tuition cost to encourage enlisted
men and officers to' spend their off-duty time in class,
”1 didn’t realize college algebra would be this tough,” one sailor said,
"But the class is wonderful and I’m learning an awful lot,” Clyde S. DeLand
Jr. is class instructor. The 13-week course is given for throe semester
Credit hours.
Besides the algebra course, the Naval Station is sponsoring a class in
mining, taught by University of Alaska Professor Leo Mark Anthony, Students
in the four-week short course are learning prospecting techniques, mining
law, mineral identification and fundamental geology. The class plans to
take a field trip around the island to study rock formations.
Included in the mining course are eight or ten Navy wives, whom Professor
Anthony has labeled "rock hounds". They’re not interested in prospecting in
Alaska, but they have collected hundreds of small rocks along Adak’s bizarre
coastline. "They have some excellent basalt specimens," said Anthony, "Some
of the small rocks should be valuable for making jewelry when they polish them."
John A, Niemi, director of evening and off-campus study at the University of
Alaska, is administrator of the Adak extension program, in cooperation with
the Information and Education Office^at the Naval Station,