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

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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

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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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Ylff' . , Miz' ' , , CAPTAIN I. M. KENNADAY , - 45321 ' I7 5 5 v 1 My ' ig xl a 52' x Wg, ff' v if af' 'f ,K V Q so 3, . 'X 5 -1' I, pf 'QL f I 1 1 , 7' fs , l X7 'lk' 'fff my ,f is f C . W at ' i- If 2 2 ef f.?f! Q if 1 1 2 To the Class of 1966 You are the third class to complete a four-year course at Maine Maritime Academy. The four-year course, naturally, has had Wgrowing painsng it has been changed from year to year, subjects have been added, modified, re-located. I feel that it has been constantly improved and, of course, it is the duty and the earnest wish of all of us here on the faculty to still further improve it. But I think you can feel that you have been offered the best four-year course we have so far developed. what you have taken out of this offering depends, as it does with any studyq on what you have put into it. It may sound strange, but I really hope that all of you feel you didn't put enough into it. Because that will mean that you realize the importance of application, and realize that application, work and study will always be important to you, in every sort of field - not just the study of your chosen profession, but that of literature, languages, music, art, philosophy - everything that will make you a complete, well-rounded, truly educated individual. If you take that feeling away from here with you I feel that Maine Maritime Academy has helped you far more than it has in giving you a degree and enabling you to obtain a license and commission, important though those may be. I sincerely hope you all do have that feeling. If you have, you can go far. Good luck to you alll .75,,..i,. J. M. Kennaday Academic Lean 13