SUNY Maritime College - Eight Bells Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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PRINTEMP5 RANKIEJRS LUG 19418 4 11952 HAVE just finished reading the class biographies and, if anyone cares, all is well with the class of 1952. According to these gems of panegyricism we are all clean cut, red blooded, upstanding American gentle- men, each possessed of a plurality of virtues destined to insure success and the rich, full life'-'rich in a sense not necessarily pecuniary though that would be an eventual goal l suppose, but rather as an expression oi de- rived self satisfaction and personal achieve- ment. This is nice to lcnow. However, before we sally forth to -cast the lie upon ourselves and our prophets, I should lilce to tell a story. It concerns ninety-odd cadets, a school, a Ship and-give or talce a few yards,-some thirty thousand miles of ocean and sea. The cadets I have mentioned brieliyg they may be examined individuallytoand in greater detail farther on. The school is our own'-one lcnown technically as a profes- sional College, H PS6UCl0nym used to differ- entiate it from ordinary trade Schools. The ship is also our own, one that has withstood with remarkable grace the concerted-.ravages if SCTZUPOH score of cadets in the quest of now e ge. The oceanic mileage speaks for itself: some ninety-lzive per cent ol it traversed at speeds ranging from nine to eleven lmots and the whole interspersed by seventeen ports at home and in eleven countries and colonies abroad. The net result has been an education ol sorts. If education is the process ol introduc- tion, then we have been introduced to many things. To some, depending upon the indi- vidual, we have rushed forward eagerly t0 grasp the proferred hand. And then again we have been thrown bodily before tile presence of others. The deference shown classical academic concepts plus the studY of the obvious and necessary subjects designed to develop technical competence in the arts and crafts relative to the maritime industry were initially intended to round out the indi- viduals concerned. The Pmgfam was met with varied reaction: primarily scorn for the former and deification of the latt . I keeping with the times, the temporal trmlily appears to be The Machine OH the left hanb, Efficiency on the right, and both Hpexed y the Almighty Buclc. I From this emporium of learning shall be spewn brightly forth, neatly Pict aged and labeled scholars. gentlemen by er. For. in J slllliderl n Ifonffftta I fur 1 01 - I v 0 male? liHPP JX' dime' f C l whatever Ou F0lloY Il1e0ll1e' lhil fm Mft v . as mall? as praclllaltrade lfswlfflge of ones t slflConEressionHl 'ill slois llis clulY flea? fsngress-SW'l1alf e' Al C lylalanry Of fognnancl the fan still male ml llle Ile name Pflyllt to let Ile syllalnles r0ll Qfgwdfognac. It is sr dlingtle lligllt and 1 izdtyslmell into a muclln several reasons-pronunciz selling ol ii is an excelli szlriety. It also lsrings tr :ming al lht Fort. llwas Septemlser 21 flltfflillg sun lloorlecl the Qmoie or less haphazard stall was time second 1 tilwjtfhsse whos. in tliatp ft I I Beloleug t THHUM ilmtemlinahlelfist ter fm' Mflfllee ol flutl' ts. shi N ,-aPs,ll1efe was a me 0' twice ifltllll muster list 1. utfvsin glhnand sweat cjmslogd 11 , lv lie he Vlmlsirlns li ru Ir lgfflythai-D . I L will hlufnlslincatilur We