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

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To the Class of ' 71 -- Massachusetts Maritime Academy: Congratulations ! As Governor of Massachusetts I saw you enroll as freshmen at the Academy. Now as Secretary of Transportation I am happy to welcome you to the even wider challenges of today ' s transportation world. We need your skills. We need your fresh young outlook. We need the can-do philosophy that I always associate with Bay Staters. But most of all we need working Americans who, by their words and deeds, will carry to our neighbors around the world the true picture of what ' s good about this great Nation. You now have that opportunity. And from my experience with the Academy and with your class I ' m sure that you have the training and the spirit to make the most of it. Good luck -- and very best wishes to each of you as you put out to sea.

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RECOGNITION TO There are not enough pages in this book to give due recognition to all those who have helped us most during our years at the Academy. Still we offer what little we can to a few who gave most graciously of themselves for us. We give them a place in the Class Book of 1971 in order that their services and sacrifices may be recognized and recorded in our memories. To our class faculty advisers, Capt. William Earle and Lt. Cdr. David Burg- hardt we give a heart felt thanks for dedication and professional guidance that cannot be adequately rewarded by simply saying thank you. As we go out to our various careers, we will be guided toward goals that we have set for ourselves. The fact that we shall reach them with honor and pride will be a function of the principles learned from these men whose lives can be imitated as worthy examples. We hope our lives will be a tribute to their guidance. We cannot repay Lt. Thomas Dorsey for his devotion as an Instructor nor as a personal friend to our class. We must remember that if it had not been for his patience and self-sacrifice as faculty adviser to the MUSTER, this book would not be. The very fact that the book does exist, we hope will be a part of his own personal reward. OUR LIFE Finally, do we dare to attempt to offer some sort of repayment to Cdr. William Connors for all his efforts in our behalf? A simple but heart-felt thank you seems so inadequate for thirty five years of unending dedication to the task of sending forth from the Academy men capable of serving as effective officers in the U. S. Merchant Marine. Do we dare allow half a life-time of such dedication to pass unnoticed? Certainly not. We are limited in what we can do to repay him. He gave us his past, we must give him our futures, by being that product which he so highly prized, and that he hoped this school would produce.

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TO THE CLASS OF 1971 MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY I am pleased to extend the congratulations of the Commonwealth, as well as my own, to all members of the Class of 1971 of the Massachusett; Maritime Academy. Now that you have completed your intensive four years of study and training, you have the proven capabilities to be representatives of your country under the Massachusetts Maritime Academy name. You are about to begin a career that is most vital to our nation ' s security and economy. With your spirit and dedication, I am sure you will contribute greatly toward infusing new strength in our Armed Forces. With best wishes for success in all your endeavors, - - S n c e r e 1 y