SATC Barracks

The Student Army Training Corps, an organization similar to today's ROTC, was created during World War I in an effort to encourage young men to simultaneously receive a college education and train for the military. As part of Company H (for Henderson), enrollees received the rank of Private in the Army, boarded in SATC barracks on campus, trained for Army service, and attended classes. The SATC was disbanded in December of 1918 following the Armistice, and its members were honorably discharged from the military.

Company H remained on campus as a unit for another month, and was, allegedly, the source of an outbreak of lighthearted school pranks. After the SATC unit was mustered out, the College had used the barracks building as a makeshift dormitory for some of the boys, who called their group Inmates of the Barracks. In 1920, the College expanded and improved the building to produce the first Goodloe Hall.