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Dohle Jr., James P. "JROTC: A Study of Two St. Louis Schools," American Studies, Saint Louis University, May 2001.
The purpose of this study was to analyze the national and local factors that brought about the demise of one JROTC program at Christian Brothers College High School and national acclaim for the other at Cleveland Naval JROTC. This study’s main premise is that when analyzing JROTC the overriding factor to consider is the type of student it serves. JROTC has served different populations and purposes since it began. When the national JROTC program was established, it was in reaction to World War I. It was intended to serve primarily white male high school students by preparing them for war. By the time CBC established its program in 1934, the country was in an isolationist rather than a militaristic mode, and CBC’s Brother Elzear’s purpose was purely pragmatic in going after a then hard-to-get JROTC program. With the national backlash against Vietnam in the sixties and seventies, CBC’s JROTC program was threatened by charges of inappropriate militarism and inefficiency. Many CBC parents and alumni showed they valued JROTC and they fought off the initial drive to end the JROTC program. At the time few were aware that, in trying to keep JROTC alive in a white male bastion, CBC was going against a national trend. By the time Cleveland’s NJROTC was established in 1981, the national JROTC programs had already experienced a decline in enrollment in the seventies and were taking a new look at who was enrolled in the program-who it served. They found that the composition had changed. White male enrollments were declining; the new JROTC was increasingly minority and female. Further re-examination led to a move away from a military mission and toward a social mission. The rise of Cleveland’s NJROTC coincides with the changing mission of the national JROTC and helps explain its growth.
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