US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Capstan Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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auiga tion IDSHIPMAN Joseph Stanislaus Gish was piqued with Navigation-who among us wasn't?-and P-works were his pet groan. It wasn't that the subject was diflicultg he merely be- came confused when required to sail a course of six hundred miles in forty minutes. To substanti- ate joe's confusion we herewith reproduce a typical P-work-with the permission of the Hydrographic Office, of course. 0600 You are Navigator aboard the U. S. S. BOWDITCH. As the sun rises, you realize that you must get a fix. Broad on the starboard beam you see two black buoys, broad on the port beam are two red girls, not bad either. Instructions: Left-Ninety degrees-Rudder. 0700 The girls saw you before you saw them and escaped. The Captain will finish his break- fast in two or three hours, and probably will want to know what ocean hels taking his morning dip in. Radio Beacons A and B bear 090 and 000 respect- fully. Oh, oh, where are you now? ' .f ' : f 1 1 , J- ' I ' . ' 1 'f . IE. f ' t 1 ff! ff: I 1, ,. . , ..'- X ' ff 1 5 ' 1.- Yhf' ' ff- 5 ':lL,.f .1 . 2: '-1? 'f x . . . .. -. -XXQV. e z.3jgf::,-.its , . . all' fi 'l , ' . ' 1 1' ', ' r' ,132 '-'. ji. ..'. P1-e 1 f '.::::3. V . .- 291, 11.-. . 1 ' - fast I1 ' .,.. ,.., .,, , . 3. ,,..,.., , - W :v -V , .. .. .. ,-.2449 1: -4,024.1 ' 1 . yi. if 2 l ,c , if l' f 1-'Ig - ' i fax. 1 , -1 , . 1, A ,.i.,,..,,1 0800 You are well away from land Cnow you can eat that pound of candy you've had hidden in your laundry bagj, and visibility is decreasing. Instruc- tions: Obtain bearing before it's too late. It's too late. 0900 Still looking for that fix? Tired? Haven't been getting enough sleep lately? Take it easy, mate. Youlve still got twenty minutes to go. In- structions: Do not look on paper next to you. 26 X 1000 You have found a convoy, thanks given Buddha, and are steaming ahead at standard speed. You tune into RBN for an EP, but all you get is an LOP 'and the Lone Ranger. Plot the intersection. 1100 Fire breaks out on your ship. CProbably that firebug that bothered the roving watches so much.j You are busy remembering your station and are not required to plot this DR. Besides, the onionskin paper has become so strong that the water in your eyes effectively incapacitates you. tgigx 0947 Yes, we know you know that you passed that point two hours ago, but we thought weld re- mind you to tell the Hydrographic Ofhce about that obstruction buoy you smashed. 1200 Fire under control, and fog lifted. You discover that the U. S. S. DUTTON is flagship. 1245 The CO informs you that your 1100 posi- tion should have been plotted and that you are now on report. Instructions: Estimate the number of extra duty hours you will serve. 1246 You are in a tix now. Plot it. 1259-50 Ten seconds. 1300 Knock off. Pass papers to starboard. Mr. Gish, did you not hear me when I said Knock off. 9 3 ' Seriously, Navigation gave Midshipman Gish and the rest of us, perhaps, a better understanding of its problems than any other course. Logically advancing from one step to the next, the Naviga- tion course made us feel that we can successfully keep our ships off the rocks. But 'Midshipman Gish still doesn't like that Ten seconds-knock off business.

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.. e akacfemic Iepta. LT. COM. WILLIAM P. BURLEIGH, USNR Mr. Burleigh, head of the Academic Depart- ments, served a year at sea as quartermaster first class from 1917 to 1918, and was commissioned an ensign on July 10, 1918. He served as gun- nery officer on three gunboats and one destroyer, and as deck and communications officer on an armed transport in the Naval Overseas Trans- portation Service in World War I. He also served on a mine sweeper after the Armistice in the North Sea, and remained active in the Naval Reserve until March, 1926. In February, 1942, he was recalled to the Service as lieutenant, and from May until Oc- tober, 1942, was with the Ordnance Depart- ment at Abbott Hall. He then came to Notre Dame as head of the Ordnance department. In February, 1943, he was promoted to lieu- tenant commander and made head of the Aca- demic Departments. Mr. Burleigh is a gradu- ate of the University of Chicago and the Colo- rado School of Mines. He lives in Glencoe, Ill.

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0I'l!ll6ll'lCe V a rff.l i4 LT. R. C. URBAN, USNR 14 Nancy Blvd. Merrick, Long Island, N. Y. A graduate of the Cooper Union Institute of Tech- nology, Mr. Urban, head of the Ordnance department, holds degrees in chemical engineering and education. He is an expert on ship models and has acted as ship model consultant for the New Bedford, Penobscot and Salem Marine Museums, and as secretary-treasurer of the-New York Ship Lore and Model Society. After re- ceiving his commission in May of 1942, Mr. Urban was a member of the Ordnance department at Abbott Hall. Helwas ordered here in October, 1942. f Lt. E. H, Dunlap, Jr., USN Lt. H. E. Dickey, USNR 117 Paxson Drive 629 11th Ave., N. South Bend, Ind. Fort Dodge, Iowa U. S. Naval Academy, '39 Cornell and Iowa Slate, '22 Lt. A. R. Pennell, USNR Lt. Cjgl E. C. Peck, USNRH 3 Oneida Circle - Greene, N..Y. Winchester, Mass. Calgale and Syracuse, ,28 and ,36 Tale, '30 -wal' gh .em Lt. Cjgj J. F. Davis, USNR Lt. fjgj C. H. Clark, USNR Lt. fjgl C. W. Fotis, USNR Ens. E. D. Wallace USNR 917 Brown St. Talahassee, Fla. 465 Essex St. 1030 E. 44th St. Morgantown, W. Va. U. lj Florida, 534 Lynn, Mass. Austin, Texas U' 'Ur LV- Va- and PWM-, ,32 Tzgftr and Harvard, '37 Baylor and U. fy' Texas, '40 28 l -fe