United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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L. White, R. Clark, A. Wayne, K. Zittel, R. lUunnumd, E. Cassidy, P. Seller SccLm an Cfr Hold one, check three, engine back one, rudder iimidships! That ' s the outcome of our many hours spent in Seamanship classes. We can tell you the force of the current at Ambrose Channel any time of the day or night, get a fix with a loran line, a star line, and a sun line, or dock a 63 foot tug by warping her around the end of a pier. In fact, we could probably do all this in our sleep as we have had plenty of practice at it. The .Seamanship dcpartmenl led by Captain Zittel has taught us by more or less osmosis many phases of professional subjects. Little Toot has taught us by trial and error how a ship can be expected to act under the various influences of current and wind. Sights, sights, and more sights — that was the battle cry of the cruises. They always told us never to get behind. Have you ever seen a running fix wiiii only fifteen minutes between sun lines? Actually it was with quite a .sense of accomplish- ment that we completed our four year study of navi- gation and seamanship, for it gives one a sense of confidence not to be dependent on others to fmd and maneuver your way about on iIk- high seas which never forgive a mistake. 18 Capt. K. O. A. Zittel

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Ccipi. H. S. Sharp ■ The trouble is ou re tr ing to make it hard. It ' s so simple that it ' s difficult. These are just two of the many statements that we have heard in our dealings with the Math department. Whether they were true or not is now immaterial; the fact remains that this was the vital course in our engineer- ing training. Without the perseverence of the instruc- tors who fought with us through algebra and trig, analytical geometry and calculus, we would not be here today. It seems that the high schools of today are not putting as much emphasis on math as is needed to undertake the high level engineering courses offered at the Academy. As a result, the Academy math department had a double burden — to bring us up to the starting point, then to take us on from there. Now that the battle smoke has cleared, we of 56 realize that we owe a great debt to the math depart- ment in general and Captain Henr Sharp in par- ticular. Without the knowledge they instilled so pain- fully in us, we could never have made it to graduation. Our thanks to the Math department and our apologies for the manv troubles we have caused them. Jft t ematcM W. Caldwell, L. Kislik, C. Blaha, L. Winer, H. Sharp, H. Paulsen. P. Yost, S. Smith 1 iiiiiiUi