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

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• f s AAs r Zf Acf A • a r f r - rvf j y ■ if -j y y s a - jay. • AA«r tuA A TO TEE CLASS OP 1960 - MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY Congratula tion s : This one hundred and eighteenth graduation of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy is significant to you young officers in many ways. It marks an arrival and a departure, a farewell and an introduction. The close of the first phase of your chosen profession is here, and the door is opened upon your next endeavor, whether it be a Merchant Marine ship, or service with the Navy, or in an associated field ashore. You will bid shipmates, classmates and the Faculty goodbye and step forth and take your places with those who have gone before you. You are qualified and possess the know-how to do the job. It hasn ' t been easy sailing, these few brief years in the Academy, but you will look back upon these years as something fine and never to be forgotten. Your Classmates, your Instructors, your respective Families, and your fellow Alumni will all be looking in your direction, to follow your course as you climb the ladder of achievement in this highly competitive world. May you attain every ambition, enjoy good health and a full happy life, whatever your destiny. God speed and smooth sailing. John ST. Thompson Rear Admiral U.S. M.S. Superintendent 13

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SUPERINTENDENT Rear Admiral JOHN W. THOMPSON Massachusetts Nautical School Class of 1912 12

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COMMANDING OFFICER Meteorology Instructor It is certainly proper that a man who has spent many of his productive years working for the benefit of the Academy be the Com- manding Officer of its training ship. Captain Rounds graduated from the Nautical School in 1926 to sail aboard Standard Oil Company tankers, and several months later commenced a three-year stay with the United Fruit Company. Early in 1930, he returned to the schoolship, this time as an instructor. When the Navy took over the school in 1942, most of the officers were shifted to active duty. Such was the case with Captain Rounds, when he was made Exe- cutive Officer of an AKA and then an APA in the Pacific. Command of an APA followed, a post he held until his release from active duty and his return to the Academy in 1946. Not only does Captain Rounds have his Mas- ter ' s license for steam and diesel powered ships, but he is also one of the few men pres- ently holding a master ' s license from the Coast Guard for square rigged sailing vessels. -H ll 14