Maine Maritime Academy - Tricks End Yearbook (Castine, ME)

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REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD A. RODGERS ' OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT To the Class of 1966! It's always a pleasure to extend congratulations and best wishes to a graduating class, especially to young men about to cross the Rubicon into the adult world. You have proved yourselves as students through years of study and toilg but the real tasks and trials of life are still ahead. Only time will tell how well we've prepared you for future challenges and opportunities. Nevertheless, I feel confident that you will go forth and set new records of accomplishment for yourselves, and, in so doing, will further enhance the enviable reputation that previous Maine Maritime Academy graduates have established. I believe we have given you a solid foundation of knowledge and practical skills, together with a healthy attitude upon which to build. Just remember that the learning process never ends and that your real satisfactions will come through personal contributions and accomplishments. You are about to enter a troubled world and an industry plagued with numerous difficultiesg but wherever there's trouble, there's opportunity. This is the arena for life's challenges. Enter it with your standards set high and a dedication to providing responsible leadership to your chosen profession and country. In quoting an old Spanish idiom, I wish you HSalud y Pesetas---y tiempo para gozarlasn CHealth and Wealth---and time to enjoy them? . MW! E. A. Rodgers Rear Admiral, MMA Superintendent ll

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FRANCIS X. LANDREY To the Class of l966: Speaking for the Board of Visitors and myself, I extend our sincere congratulations for having completed the third four year course at Castine with honor to yourselves and the Academy. Any advice or counsel I would offer you may sound trite and commonplace, but nevertheless, the same general rules and laws of conduct and endeavor fit yourselves now, as they have your predecessors, for many years. l. Be honest with yourselves at all times, and with all men. 2. Never stop studying and learning so as to improve yourselves. 3. Be alert, ready and fit for promotion. 4. Be grateful for a good education hy a wise and generous government. 5. Conduct yourselves as we would like you to do, and bring credit to yourselves. Smooth seas and good sailing. Sincerely, Francis X. Landrey Chairman, Board of Visitors 10

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To the CLASS of '66 This will be the last time on which CAPTAIN A. F. COFFIN I will address you as a class but certainly not, I hope, as individuals. You are entering a world in which change is the password and you. must be prepared to meet rapidly changing conditions in engineering and technology. To unconsidered thought it might seem that all previous standards are obsolete and You will find that the qualities of loyalty, enthusiasm and willingness than the minimum required are still If you will combine these with your should be discarded. Not so. integrity, perserverance, to put forth more effort highly valued and desired. training and education at the Maine Maritime Academy and realize that your education must never cease, I have no doubt of your future success. I think the following quotation from the writings of William James is most appropriate: HLet no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with per- fect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in what- ever pursuit he may have singled out. Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built up within him as a possession that will never pass away!H 12 Albion F. Co fin