Professor Emeritus Julius T. Nachazel was born in 1893 in Traverse City, Michigan and received his early education in Traverse City before attending a trade school in New York City, which is now part of Columbia University. In 1922 he left New York and entered the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. He received his B.S and E.M. degrees in became a member of the staff in 1926. He served as assistant profeesor of mathematics, superintendent of equipment, full-time director of extension and student recruiter. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Army ROTC in 1928, one of the first on any college campus in the United States. During the depression and lead up to World War II, he was director of jobs corps training for young men which was conducted on campus, although under the auspices of the National Youth Administration. Nachazel was a veteran of World War I where he served in the Army and was wounded in the Argonne-Meuse offensive. He was also active in the community and civic affairs. He served three terms as president of the Village of Houghton, was director of Civil Defense for Houghton County and served as class agent for the Development Fund and the Michigan Tech Foundation. Julius T. Nachazel passed away in 1975. The National Youth Administration (NYA) was established by executive order in 1935 as a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). President Franklin D. Roosevelt, influenced by his wife, Eleanor, and by WPA Director Harry L. Hopkins, established the NYA to devise useful work for some of the estimated 2.8 million young people who were on relief in 1935. NYA activities took two major directions: the student work program for youths in school (elementary to graduate), and out-of-school employment for the needy unemployed between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four. Those participating in the out-of-school program received on-the-job training in the construction trades, metal and woodworking, office work, recreation, health care, and other occupations. NYA workers also performed useful tasks in parks, national forests, and other outdoor recreational areas along lines similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps. The NYA remained under WPA jurisdiction until 1939 when it was taken over by the Federal Security Agency and placed under the War Manpower Commission. As unemployment decreased and war approached, emphasis was gradually shifted to training youths for war work until, early in 1942, all NYA activities not contributing to the war effort were dropped. The National Youth Administration was dissolved in 1943.