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

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ENGINEERING LCDR Harold C. Pratt, USN (Ret.) Radio Electronics Instructor Mr. Pratt ' s sea career commenced when he enlisted in the Navy in Tampa, Florida in 1933. The Navy ' s electrical school fol- lowed with a steady rise up through the ranks. By the time a decade of Naval service had been completed, he had become an Ensign. During the last World War, Mr. Pratt served in many capacities and saw action in major Pacific and North African campaigns. His Naval duty continued with a steady rise in rank until 1953 when he became a Lieutenant Commander. Mr. Pratt retired in 1956 and joined the staff here at the Academy in 1958. Lt. Mario Tonello, USMS Machinery Division Officer Mr. Tonello enlisted in the Navy in 1941 and received his train- ing at Newport, Rhode Island. His first assignment consisted of convoy duty in the U.S.S. WAINRIGHT, escorting cargo ships to Murmansk. Aboard the WAINRIGHT, he saw such action as the invasion of North Africa, the Anzio Invasion, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Sea of Japan. Mr. Tonello mustered out of the Navy as a Chief Machinist ' s Mate, and from there he started his own repair service. He remained in this position until 1950 when he came to the Academy. He received his Second Assistant ' s papers in 1950 and was commissioned in the United States Merchant Service in 1953. Lt. Angus E. MacLeod, USMS Assistant Division Officer Shop Theory Instructor Mr. MacLeod started his sea career by becoming an apprentice machinist at the Bethelem Shipyard in Quincy, Mass. After watching ships come in and out, he decided to go to sea and signed on as an oiler on a Waterman Line ship. After sailing for a time, he entered the U.S. Maritime Service Officer ' s Training School and sat for his third ' s in steam and diesels in September of 1944. In 1946 he raised his license to second. He has sailed with such companies as Marine Transport, American Foreign, Eastern, and Moran Towing. Lt. MacLeod has been in the Academy ' s engineering department since 1948. 18

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ENGINEERING Commander William Hemmerly, USNR Electrical Division Officer Electricity and Refrigeration Instructor A graduate of the Massachusetts Nautical School in the Class of 1936, Commander Hemmerly sailed with Standard Oil of New Jersey on their tankers for six years until the outbreak of World War II. He entered the Navy and became an engineering officer on the USS CONWAY and then USS SHANNON. Mr. Hemmerly was in on many of the Pacific campaigns and distinguished him- self by winning twelve battle stars. He was honored personally for keeping the engines of his ship in operation even though she had sustained heavy battle damage. After the war, Cmdr. Hemmerly came ashore to operate a re- frigeration plant on the West Coast. After two years he came to the Cape where he took a position at the Maritime Academy as one of the engineering instructors. LCDR. James D. Crosby, USNR Auxiliary Division Officer Diesel Instructor LCDR. Crosby is a graduate of the Massachusetts Nautical School, Class of 1931, whereupon he went to sea with the United Fruit Company. He stayed with the Fruit Company for ten years, raising his engineering license to chief. The year 1942 found Mr. Crosby in the Navy serving as Cadet Training Instructor in Panama. He stayed with the cadets of King ' s Point to become that school ' s chief engineer on its training ship. At the end of the war, Mr. Crosby returned to sea aboard the ships of the Sword Lines. Three years had been spent in their employment when he returned to teach young men the tricks of marine engineering at his old Alma Mater in 1948. Lt. Frederick H. G. Wright, USNR Boiler Division Officer Instructor of Boilers and Property of Materials The Maritime Academy can be proud to count Mr. Wright among its graduates. After graduation in 1943, he served aboard the Navy ' s USS TATUM. While in the Navy, he saw action in the Philippines and Okinawa. The end of the war found Mr. Wright with plans to go to sea in the Merchant Marine. He sailed Marine Transport Lines, Sheppard Lines, Continental Oil, and Keystone Lines until 1957 when he came to the Academy as an instructor. 17

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ACADEMIC Commander Admont G. Clark, USCGR Assistant Division Officer English Instructor An honor graduate of Amherst College, Commander Clark first went to sea in 1942 when, as a graduate of the Coast Guard Officer Candidate School, he became navigator of the cutter GRESHAM in Atlantic convoy duty. He stayed in the GRESHAM for a year and then was transferred to the Pacific, where he was given command of the freighter F-51. After a memorable voyage to the South Seas, the ship was kept busy carrying supplies for the fighting forces until the end of the war. Upon his release from active duty, Commander Clark returned to Cape Cod and in 1947 joined the ranks of the instructors at the Maritime Academy. Recalled to active duty in 1952, Commander Clark served as Assistant Reserve Director in the First Coast Guard District and then as Chief of the Training Section, Reserve Division, Coast Guard Headquarters, before returning to the Academy in 1955. Commander John M. Cease, USN (Ret.) Academic Assistant to the Superintendent First Division Officer Mathematics Instructor Commander Cease came to the Maritime Academy after retire- ment from the Navy. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of ' 39, he earned distinction as a plebe by receiving the Gold Life-Saving Medal (Treasury Department) for rescuing a skater who had fallen through the ice. Upon graduation, he was assigned duty in t he Pacific Fleet where he participated in every major campaign of World War II. In addition to his many other duties while in the Navy, Com- mander Cease had charge of midshipmen at the USNR Midship- men ' s School, Columbia University, N. Y., was First Lieutenant in the aircraft carrier INDEPENDENCE taking part in the initial test of the atomic bomb at Bikini, and had command of the USS FRANK KNOX during the Korean Conflict. While commanding this ship he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat Dis- tinguishing Device. Commander Cease is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Com- mand and General Staff College (1956) and holds a Master of Arts (Education) degree from Jackson College, Honolulu, Hawaii. Lieutenant Thomas F. Dorsey, USMS Muster Advisor Social Sciences Instructor Mr. Dorsey ' s first contact with the sea was aboard the charter schooner TANAGER where he sailed as a member of the deck crew. Rigging work with the Bethelem Steel Shipbuilding Com- pany on Staten Island paved the way for his entrance to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1944. He went to sea to gain time towards a third mate ' s license which he got after preparations at the USMS Officer ' s School at Alameda, California. The ink wasn ' t dry on his ticket before he was at sea in a tanker, a ship-type he remained with for seven years calling at ports all over the world. Before coming ashore in 1952 Mr. Dorsey was sailing as Second Mate for the Socony Vacuum Company. Mr. Dorsey graduated from Boston College in 1956 and one year later came to the Academy as Social Science Instructor and watch officer. 19