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

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DECK AND ENGINE DEPARTMENTS Our Instructors . . . Commander William J. Connors, USNR Navigation Inst. Commander Connors is another of the school ' s instruc- tors who started his seafaring career at the Mass. Nautical School. He learned the ways of seamen aboard the Nantucket, and upon graduating in 1932, he went to sea with the American Hawaiian Lines, as quarter- master. From American Hawaiian, Cmdr. Connors went with Mallory Lines tankers working his way from third mate to chief mate. He has held for twenty years an unlimited master ' s license. He came to teach at the Academy in 1940 and stayed until 1942 when he went into the Navy as Executive officer on the tanker Neosho. Several months later he was given command of the tanker Nespelen and in her finished out the war. Commander Connors returned to the Maritime Academy in 1946 and is now head of the Navigation Dept. LCDR. Paul G. Hirst, USMS Admiralty Law Instructor Mr. Hirst is a graduate of the Mass. Nautical School. He received his training on the Nantucket and upon graduation in 1926, went to sea in the Merchant Service. He has sailed in every capacity from seaman in the forecastle to chief mate; with Mallory Lines, Standard Oil Co. of N.J., Luckenback Lines, Sprague S.S. Co. and Waterman S.S. Co. When the Second W.W. broke out, Mr. Hirst went to sea under the War Shipping Board in the North Atlan- tic and Mediterranean areas, with a side trip to Mur- mansk in Russia. He then came ashore to teach nautical subjects in the Maritime Service Upgrade School in Boston. With this as a background, he operated the Bay State Navigation School for a year before reporting to the Maritime Acad- emy in 1948. Mr. Hirst holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Mass. Maritime Academy and is licensed as a Master in the Merchant Marine. tiiii i lit II II Commander John M. Cease USN (Ret.) .Academic Asst. to the Superintendent, Mathematics Instructor Commander Cease came to the Maritime Academy after retirement from the Navy. A graduate of the U.S. Naval A cademy, Class of ' 39, he was assigned duty in the Pacific Fleet where he participated in every major cam- paign of W. W. II. In addition to his many other duties while in the Navy, Cmdr. Cease had charge of midshipmen at the USNR Midshipmen ' s School, Columbia University, was First Lt. on the aircraft carrier Indepencence, 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 Distinguishing Device. Commander Cease is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and holds a Mas- ter of Arts degree from Jackson College, Honolulu, Hawaii. 9

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COMMAND wm — ki Captain Richard T. Rounds U.S.N.R. Meteorology Instructor Capt. Rounds graduated from the Nautical school in 1926 to sail aboard Standard Oil Co. 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 Executive Officer of an A.K.A. 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. Captain James M. Murray, U.S.N.R. Chief Engineer Inst, of Thermo Dynamics, Steam Engines The Bay State ' s Chief Engineer graduated from an ear- lier Mass. schoolship, the famous Nantucket in 1935. Upon receiving his Marine Engineer ' s License, Capt. Murray sailed with Eastern Steamship and Cities Ser- vice, and by the time he was 25 years old he had his Chief Engineer ' s License. Entering the Navy as a Lt. (j.g.) in 1942, he saw action in many of the major campaigns in the Pacific, includ- ing Okinawa and Guam. At the war ' s end, he left active duty with the Navy to become the Chief Engineer of the Maine Maritime Academy schoolship. Returning to the Mass. Maritime Academy in 1947, Capt. Murray became the school ' s Chief Engineer and he holds this position as head of the Academy ' s Engineering Dept. as well as an unlimited Chief Steam and Diesel Engineers License. Captain Louis A. Woodland, U.S.N.R. Ship Construction Inst. Capt. Woodland graduated from the Mass. Nautical School, in 1929, the top man in his class. He started his career at sea as junior deck officer aboard U.S. Line ' s famous LEVIATHIAN. He also worked for the Grace Lines, sailing to South America, before returning to the schoolship as an instructor in 1934. During W. W. II, he was on duty with the Navy in the Pacific in various capacities including Executive Offi- cer aboard an Attack Transport. After the war he re- turned to the Maritime Academy to work his way to the upper echelon of the administration of the school where he is now Executive Officer. Among his many qualifications, Capt. Woodland has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Mass. Maritime Acad- emy and holds a Master ' s License.

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FACULTY Lieutenant Thomas F. Dorsey, USNR Social Sciences Instructor Mr. Dorsey ' s first contact with the sea was aboard the charter schooner TANAGER where he sailed as a mem- ber of the deck crew. Rigging work with the Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding Co. 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 received after preparations at the USMS Officer ' s School at Alameda, Calif. The ink wasn ' t dry on his ticket before he was at sea on a tanker, a ship type he remained with for seven years, calling at ports all over the world. Before com- ing shore in 1952 Mr. Dorsey was sailing as Second Mate for the Socony Vacuum Co. Mr. Dorsey graduated from Boston College in 1956 and one year later came to the Academy as Social Science Inst, and watch officer. LCDR Alan McNaughton, USNR Communications Instructor Mr. McNaughton was in several Academy firsts. He was a first classman when the school made its first West Coast Cruise. The object of this cruise was, of course, to pick up the fondly remembered Charleston which was the school ' s first steamship. Upon gradua- tion in 1949, Mr. McNaughton and his classmates were the first to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Academy. United States Lines followed the schoolship in Mr. Mc- Naughton ' s career. He sailed on their Australia-Far East run until 1954 when he went in the Navy for a two year tour of active duty. After being released from active duty, he returned to the New England area to sail tankers for Boston Fuel Transport. Including his Mas- ters license and degree, Mr. McNaughton holds pilot ' s papers from Portland, Maine, to Providence, Rhode Is- land. Lt. F. L. Dixon Yard, USMS Spanish Instructor Mr. Yard came to the Academy in 1955, 1956 and again in 1960 until the present time. During his time here he has served as a division officer in both the second and third divisions as well as being an instructor in practi- cal seamanship. Before coming to the Academy, Mr. Yard sailed as Chief Mate for the United Fruit Company, the Marine Trans- port Lines and the U. S. Army Engineers for 5 years. He has attended the Salisbury School in Conn., Tabor Academy, Dartmouth College, Rollins College, University of Chile, Boston University, Middlebury College, Stan- ford University, Segregansett County Agricultural School and the College of the Sequoias. He holds the following degrees; Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Licenciado in Artes, Agricultural School Certificates and has teachers licences in California and Massachusetts. He is the founder and President of the Instituto Mexicano Norte Americano (a specialized college). Head Master of the Black Fox Military Institute and has been a school and college Instructor for 12 years. With this background, Mr. Yard is a valuable instructor for all here at the Academy. 10