A Student Reflects on the announcement of the U.S. entering WWII

In the Fall of 1918 the Campus was given over to the U.S. Army where it became an auto training school. One goal was teaching soldiers to drive for transport of good and men, ambulances and other uses.  In 1918, the working class man may not have ever driven a car, their cost being above their means.  The school also taught auto mechanics both in the gymnasium and in downtown Spokane. Pictured are not Whitworth Students but a new batch of Army recruits. Many came to Whitworth at the height of the Spanish Flu Pandemic.