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

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EDITORIAL Now that we have nearly attained the goal for which we have been striving these past three years, we find that, as a whole, we have changed in many ways. We are leaving the Academy as men. We entered as boys. We are no longer schoolboys with responsibilities only to our studies, we are men going out into the world not only with a responsibility to ourselves, but with an even greater re- sponsibility to the Academy than we ever felt during our years here. We are-graduates of Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and as such, we have an inescapable duty to perform. There are many men who are satisfied to continually criticize and tear down, while never offering a substantial suggestion to improve. Let us not be classed as such. Certainly, we have criticized harshly many aspects of our life at the Academy, but now that we are to be public representatives of the Academy, let us go out and uphold the proud reputation which has been earned for the Academy by the many who have gone before. It is as much our Academy as it is theirs, and we can look back with pride upon our heritage. Our instructors and officers have done all in their power to make men of us, quite often to our momentary displeasure, but neverthe- less, they have succeeded. The factors which have entered into our education have been many and diverse, some of which we will never be aware of, and some of which we are only too aware. We have been fortunate to have experienced this training. The Academy has helped each of us, now it becomes fitting for us to help the Academy, and we will do so by word, action, and example. THE EDITORS

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SUPERINTENDENT REAR ADMIRAL JULIAN D. WILSON USN (RETIRED)