United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook

“:£^r~4 1 1) From: To: Subject : TIDE R I P S * 1 9 4 4 ! GUARD ACADEMY * M W LONDON, CONNECTICUT . . • • Editor, TIDE RIPS 1944 All Hands Preface, TIDE RIPS 1944 1. TIDE RIPS 1944 has been edited and published by the Class of 1944, United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut . 2. It is divided into three main sections as follows: (1) INTRODUCTION -- A dedication to the officers and men of the Service whose consistent dis- play of courage and loyalty has established the glorious traditions of the Service and whose dramatic actions in the present war reaffirm this splendid record. (2) ACADEMY -- A salute to the Coast Guard Academy for its thorough academic, practical, athletic, and social program which prepares commissioned officers for the United States Coast Guard. (3) CADET CORPS — Tomorrow ' s officers presented as today ' s cadets, the first class section depicting the good fellowship existing in every class. Each first classmen has been " idio- syncraticly " biographied, " typicritically " car- tooned, informally photoed, and " glamorously " portraited. 3. It is presented to those interested in the Service and the Academy with the hope that the staff will be repaid B efforts by the enthusiastic appreciation with which it will be received. 2fe*t. James P. Editor- ^ p ”