Massachusetts Maritime Academy - Muster Yearbook (Buzzards Bay, MA)

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COMMANDER LOUIS A. WOODLAND, USNR Cadet master of the class of 1929, Com- mander Woodland shipped out with Grace Lines for five years before returning to the school in 1 934 as a watch officer. Since then his administrative ability has earned the respect of every Midshipman. After serving as Navigator and Executive Officer of the transport MONROVIA during the war, he returned to teach us communica- tions, ship construction, and navigation. As navigator of our cruises he has taken us safely to our distant destinations. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER RICHARD T. ROUNDS, USNR As head of the department of Seaman- ship and Navigation, Mr. Rounds is re- sponsible for. the calibre of the many navigators who have studied under him. Graduating from the Nautical School as cadet chief officer in 1926, he sailed with Standard Oil and United Fruit before returning to the school as a watch officer in the early 1930 ' s. Since then he has been with the school except for a tour of duty with the Navy during the war. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER WILLIAM J. CONNORS, USNR Graduating from the NANTUCKET in 1932, Mr. Connors saw varied experience in both cargo vessels and tankers before joining the staff in 1940. During the war he served in the USS NEOSHA, a tanker in the Pacific, and later he commanded the USS NESPELEN. Returning to the Academy in 1946, he soon impressed a new crop of Midshipmen with his rigid insistence on proficiency in seamanship, Rules of the Road, and Rules of S.I.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER Commander John W. Thompson, USMS Graduating from the Schoolship in 1912, Commander Thompson spent five years with the Lighthouse Service and a year with the New York-Puerto Rico Line, before joining the U.S. Army Mineplanters at Newport. The end of the war found him returning to the NANTUCKET as Navigator, a post he held until 1925. A ten-year period as a Scout Executive followed, during which time he organized the Pine Tree Council in Maine and served as Executive Officer of the Quincy Council. The year 1935 found him again with the school as Navigator. In 1941, when the school moved ashore to Hyannis and was renamed the Massachusetts Maritime Acad- emy, he was chosen as Executive Officer, a post he has since filled capably.

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LIEUTENANT LUCIAN T. PAGE, USMS Another 1932 graduate of the school, Mr. Page spent ten years with American Export and Isthmian Lines, seeing almost every port in the world. In 1943 he be- came a pilot on the Panama Canal. He joined the staff in 1948 as watch officer and second division officer. LIEUTENANT PAUL G. HIRST, USMS Mr. Hirst graduated from the NAN- TUCKET in 1926. After many years afloat, including wartime service with the Merchant Marine, he became Instructor in the Maritime Service Upgrade School in Boston. After the war he accepted a post as director of the Bay State Naviga- tion School, leaving in June 1948 to begin his duties here as first division officer and instructor in cargo stowage, ship opera- tion, and maritime law. CHIEF BOATSWAIN ARTHUR G. BRENNER, M.M.A. Boatswain Brenner has been most color- fully with us since reporting to the NAN- TUCKET in 1927. We who have learned the elements of practical seamanship under him will never forget his keen mind, his huge store of experience, his vivid vocabulary.